Info on hard drives says its nearly full, but I have next to nothing on a new hard drive.

When I ask for info on my hard drive, it says that the disk is nearly full.  I just had the hard drive replaced and there is hardly anthing on it.  If I ask for info on each individual folder it only adds up to about 30 gigs.  I don't see anywhere a big folder or file.  The hard drive is 465.44 GB.  It thinks I've used 463.5 GB.

Do you have any other drives connected to your computer? Please post what you find checking Get Info as I posted earlier.
Select your drive's Desktop icon. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. Press COMMAND-SHIFT-4. Your cursor will turn into a crosshairs. Use it to select the part of the upper panel that displays the disk information. When you release the mouse button it will be automatically saved to your Desktop.
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Meanwhile, you can boot from your Leopard installer DVD and repair your hard drive:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

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