Iphone restore stole space from hard drive?

I restored my iphone from a previous backup but it stopped halfway cause i ran out of space on my hard drive, i went to remove stuff but realized that the process shrunk my hard drive from 10 gb to 1 gb. I was wondering how to get my hard drive space back? I cant restore the iphone from a backup if it is somehow consistently taking up space.

When restore from back up fails due to running out of hard drive space it does NOT clean up after itself.  You have to do this manually.
Look in the folder Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup - here you will see folders that directly relate to your backups, all matching up with the times of your backups, and you will also see a folder or folders relating to your restore attempts, again matching up with times that you attempted your restore.  I did this last night, so I know that you are quite safe to delete the folder with the time relating to when you attempted your restore - just don't delete your actual back up.
You are going to need the same amount of space as the back up folder that you are wanting to restore so it's worth checking how big this is and freeing up an equal amount of space before re-attempting.

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