How to check android storage using a PC?

Rovillalob · July 6, 2019

My Samsung J7 is acting weird and I want to back up the things I have before I reset it to factory. My only problem is that there are some files that I cant find, and the program that I used to create such files crashes the moment I try to open it (I have been trobleshooting it for a long time, I gave up). I cant find the files with androids device manager, third party programs or good old plug to PC and search manually. Best thing I could think about was using WinDirStat as it works really well on PC drives to find files based on size. So my next problem started: WinDirStat wont show the phone on its list. I guess that it's because windows wont assign a drive letter (such as E:) to a cellphone as it would do to any other USB drive. The attached image shows what I mean.

Is there a way to force WinDirStat to look for it? Or a way to assign a letter to the cellphone? Maybe another program build to do that?

samcool55 · July 6, 2019

I always use freefilesync to make back-ups of phones.

It can make a list of all the files on the device (might be enough for you) but it can also copy them to somewhere else without crapping itself like explorer does.