Missing space on ssd?

[5L0TH]

Hello everyone I recently put together a system and for some reason windows is showing I only have 25GB free on my ssd when windirstat and selecting all the folders inside the drive shows I'm only using 135GB but from the computer screen it shows I'm using 197GB, its a 240GB hyperX fury btw. Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance if I'm not able to reply due to timezones and such in the uk btw.

Also first post woot!

[Altecice]

go to the tools section and select "check" for error checking.

[5L0TH]

Done that didn't change a thing.

[Skeletonfish]

look at the partitions there maybe a windows system partition taking up space

[5L0TH]

https://windirstat.info/ download this and see what is taking up the space

 

Hello everyone I recently put together a system and for some reason windows is showing I only have 25GB free on my ssd when windirstat and selecting all the folders inside the drive shows I'm only using 135GB but from the computer screen it shows I'm using 197GB, its a 240GB hyperX fury btw. Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance if I'm not able to reply due to timezones and such in the uk btw.

Also see the screencap I posted.

[5L0TH]

look at the partitions there maybe a windows system partition taking up space

not that either.

Sorry about doublepost.

[Markmjb]

@ Folder options, system files are hidden by default, meaning that they won't show up on your analysis. Not sure if that tool can override that option, check if there is any difference if you uncheck it.

My answer would also be in some part of the ssd being corrupt, since that would reduce the available write-able space for this.

The amount you are missing is massive though o.0

[5L0TH]

Ok so I found an option in windirstat to show "freespace" and "unknown" and it came back with this:

So it seems I have 63GB of "unknown" any ideas about what it could be? anyone?

 

@ Folder options, system files are hidden by default, meaning that they won't show up on your analysis. Not sure if that tool can override that option, check if there is any difference if you uncheck it.

I have it set to show hidden folders if that is the option your referring to. And I'm pretty sure windirstat overrules this as it shows stuff like pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys could be wrong though but there wasn't a difference with it unchecked.

[Markmjb]

I have it set to show hidden folders if that is the option your referring to. And I'm pretty sure windirstat overrules this as it shows stuff like pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys could be wrong though but there wasn't a difference with it unchecked.

No, I meant the 6th option in folder options --> advanced which says something like "hide protected system files".

[5L0TH]

SOLVED IT

 

Turns out it was a system restore point that was taking up 63GB it didn't show up even with the "show hidden protected system files" option check but it was visible and deletable in the options for system restore.

 

Thanks for the help everyone if @Markmjb hadn't sugested tinkering about in the view options I wouldn't have looked in the windirstat options (because I'm dumb ) and found the "unknown" files, then googled it and found it could be system restore, then deleted them from system restore.

 

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