I have a hard drive that has 71.3 GB of space. Recently, it dived down to 1.05 GB. I found three files in C:\WINDOWS which are very similar. This drive has Windows XP. The three files are:

BOOTME32.bak (45.8 GB) [4/6/2010 10:22 AM]
BOOTME32.inf (4.1 GB) [4/6/2010 10:39 AM]
BOOTME32.ini (16 KB) [4/6/2010 10:40 AM]

These all appear to be blank. They are not on the computer I am posting this from. Can I delete them? I don't think Windows needs files these big to BOOT...can you list the contents of the ini FILE?It appears to be blank in Word and Notepad.I don't KNOW what those files are, but you can always delete a file with a .bak extension. And if I were you I'd run a full scan with both the AV and MalwareBytes.I did. Nothing found.Have you deleted BOOTME32.bak yet? That's the one that's GOBBLING up a lot of hard drive space.I Googled bootme32 and came up with nothing except a reference to this post on CH.BOOTME32 appears to be a user-assigned name, which explains why you found nothing in your Google search. In other WORDS, Fleexy, or someone using his computer, has created a backup file named BOOTME32.bak.Quote from: soybean on June 25, 2010, 08:55:11 AM

BOOTME32 appears to be a user-assigned name, which explains why you found nothing in your Google search. In other words, Fleexy, or someone using his computer, has created a backup file named BOOTME32.bak.