HD almost full after a wipe.

I took my Macbook Pro into the genius bar today. I had a faulty hard drive that the Genius completely erased in order to get it working properly. I took my Macbook Pro home. I have an external hard drive that had all of my music/photos/docs on so I was prepared to restore it all. I've successfully copied my docs and photos over.
When I went to restore my Itunes library it said there is not enough disk space.
I checked my HD and it says I only have about 9GBs left.
This morning when my HD was working I had more than that left and that included my Itunes library as well as all of Microsoft Office applications I had installed that got erased today.
It seems as though my "old" HD is still taking up space somehow? I should have a lot left, at least enough for my Itunes library that fit just fine before.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Use a program such as WhatSize or Disk Inventory X to determine where the space is being used.
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ArletteJ wrote:
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