Sparsebundle taking up disk space

Hi, I've been wondering what happened to my hard drive, and ran a scan of it.
I found out there's a sparsebundle named ChiBook.sparsebundle, located at /Users/.ChiBook, that's taking up around 80gb of the 160gb that I'm suppose to have.
Is it safe to delete it? If not, how do I recover that 80gb?
Thanks!

Doing a search on Sparsebundle turns up that it's associated with Time Machine. If your MacBook is named Chibook you may have created a back-up of your hard derive on your internal hard drive rather than an external hard drive. Open the Chibook.Sparsebundle and see if it's a copy of your hard drive. If it is then go to System Preferences>Time Machine and turn off the Time Machine. Then delete the Chibook.Sparsebundle
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