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Yeah, I know now it was overkill but it only took about a day when I didn't need the box anyway. Won't do it again though. Thanks.

DAH - Found the problem. Not related to CCleaner. I showed hidden files and saw a backup on the drive that I didn't notice before. Deleted the archived backup copies and whalla! Got my space back. - DAH. Sorry for thinking it was the 35-pass wipe and taking up your time but you guys did help in getting me to think about this until I got it fixed. Thanks!

Thanks Ident. Traveling now but will check out in morning and report findings.

Tried Recuva. Didn't work. Explorer says 1 TB drive is Healthy, 0% Fragmented, and no partitions when viewed through Disk Manager. What the heck? 400 GB I oughta see something. Want to try CCleaner 1-Pass Overwrite on top of the 35-Pass to see if it solves the problem but afraid I'll run out of disk space if this happens again.

Going to try Recuva now and see what happens. Will post results. Thanks!!

Nope. I looked for long wierd file names and found none. Like I said, they're are only 6 directories on the drive.

Yep. Thought that would do it but it didn't. Drive properties still showing the extra 400 GB. BTW - No wierd looking file names in Explorer either. I only have 6 or so directories on the drive so CCleaner did not write any thing that I can see except for those dog-gone 1's and 0's - lol

Did a 35 Pass Wipe for Free Space on Win10Pro Machine 1 Terabyte HDD NTFS. Before the wipe, the drive had 500 GB of data. After the wipe was complete, it now has 900 GB of data but I can't find the extra 400 GB. Is the 400 GB the 1's and 0's that were written on the free space? I did not do a "Wipe MFT Free Space" as I'm now afraid to wipe again. Any ideas on how to get my 400 GB back? Thanks.