Available space on drive differs

Hello everyone.
I have a petrol HDD in my macbook.
In diskutility it says there is 38 gigs available
In the finder it says 79 gigs is available
I have varified the disk and its apparently OK, but I am having issues with time machine, each time it goes to back up its finding more and more to do, currently at 8 gigs. Further more its taking literally hours, its been going for 1.5 hrs to back up 300 megs, and this is on a good and fast network, where it would usually take less than a minute for that amount.
I think the two are connected.

Sorry for the late reply.  I have not looked at the MacBook forum for a while.
Try rebooting in Safe Mode.  That will clean out some files as it boots and may give you just enough space to boot.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
Empty the trash.
Immediately delete some files to gain disk space.
Empty the trash.
For hints on how to free disk/SSD storage see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5872318?tstart=0
If it will not boot in Safe Mode, post back for more instructions on how to get it booted. 
There are more options.  You can get there from here.

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