Disk Drive appearence problems. Help!

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I am using windows XP media center edition. it worked fine in the first, and even now but the problem is about the disk space of the D: and E: drives.
here it goes, the disk space(used) of the drives appears more than that of the size of the files on the disk. i tried moving all the files to the other drive, even then the used disk space is 3GB(but the disk drive is empty). i tried formatting but an error message appears saying that the drive is in use, same even with other drive.
can anyone please help me. i'll be very thankful.

I'm not sure but windows might be configured to use that drive for paging. right click on my computer -> properties -> advanced -> performance options -> advanced -> Virtual Memory(Change). That'll give you an idea if its being used for that purpose or not

What is the partition type
FAT 32 or NTFS ?

If its NTFS,check whether u have enabled compression under Advanced Options