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Where did my space go?

hhamama66
By hhamama66
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I have three folders in my hard drive that add up to 940 GB but windows claims that 1.4 TB is being used on the drive. How am I missing 500GB of space?

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Check in disk management and see if it has another partition set up on it taking up the other space.

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1 minute ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Check in disk management and see if it has another partition set up on it taking up the other space.

Nope, only one large partition.

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1 minute ago, pizapower said:

Maybe system reserved partition?

Can't be. I built this computer myself.

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Just now, pizapower said:

How old is that HDD? Maybe it's faulty.

I don't remember exactly when I bought it, but it shouldn't more than a year old.

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6 minutes ago, TheShawnMiranda said:

Windows Key + R. Type in diskmgmt.msc and run. Put up a screenshot of that.

 

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Do you have system restore enabled? Restore points get stored in a hidden folder named "System Volume Information", and this can get pretty big.

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Try downloading the tool "Windirstat" and point it at the root directory of "D:" ,let it run and show us the result. That'll show you exactly where your space has gone.

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On 6/22/2019 at 5:23 PM, Crash Dummy said:

Try downloading the tool "Windirstat" and point it at the root directory of "D:" ,let it run and show us the result. That'll show you exactly where your space has gone.

Ok, this screenshot seems to suggest that Windows is unable to report the correct size for many folders in my media folder. Why is that?

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