How do you get rid of duplicate files on a hard drive?

I thought I had lost most of my data files on my C hard drive after installing some windows patches. I recovered the files by using Norton Ghost. A couple of days later, and I did a restart of my laptop, and then I could see all of my original files and their respective folders. I now have duplicates of all the files that had been "restored" by Norton Ghost. How can I easily get rid of these duplicate files? I am using Windows Vista on a Dell Inspiron E1505. I am low on free hard drive space on my C drive, and I would like to free up the space caused by the unnecessary duplicate files. Thanks!

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asked Jul 12 '10 at 20:48

bradto
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2	I would use Glary Utilities http://www.glaryutilities.com/ really great and have a lot of other tools. answered Jul 13 '10 at 05:45 Patxi 12.6k●206●272●386

0	i used to own a E1505... what i would say is being you have an image already made and i assume its relatively up to date... why not just reformat and use that image? just an idea, but i dont know a way how to delete only the duplicates answered Jul 12 '10 at 22:49 trueb 14.9k●49●99●256

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