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im having this problem with my hard drive i have enabled show missing folders and files windows says i have used 670gb as you see on the right and when i take all files they are only 600 gb why there is 70 gb used even tho i dont have anymore than 600gb of files

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What is exactly on drive D?(nothing specific. Just general information)

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What is exactly on drive D?(nothing specific. Just general information)

Movies,Tv shows,some steam games, and operating system isos

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I don't think you are missing any space. HDDs and SSDs are not exactly the marketed size. For example your 1TB HDD is actually 931GB. You are getting the full space of your HDD.

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I don't think you are missing any space. HDDs and SSDs are not exactly the marketed size. For example your 1TB HDD is actually 931GB. You are getting the full space of your HDD.

i know that it is 931 gigs but i am still having 70 gigs used for no reason used space + free space is 931gb but it shows i have 670gb used space and on the left side you can see that everything on that drive is only 600gb not 670gb

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i know that it is 931 gigs but i am still having 70 gigs used for no reason used space + free space is 931gb but it shows i have 670gb used space and on the left side you can see that everything on that drive is only 600gb not 670gb

You could have severe fragmentation. defrag your HDD and see what happens also there could be hidden temporary files. Do a disk cleanup and remove unused files.

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You could have severe fragmentation. defrag your HDD and see what happens also there could be hidden temporary files. Do a disk cleanup and remove unused files.

already did and i still have same problem

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You could use a tool like WinDirStat or SpaceSniffer to see what is using the space.

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already did and i still have same problem

is ti possible you didn't partition the drive correctly? If that isn't your problem just deal with it its not like you are running out of space anyways. Keep in mind when files enter another cluster if they don't will up the 4KB block they move onto the next cluster and waste space. i don't think it could add up to 70GB or whatever but I guess its a possibility. I would recommend you download UltimateDefrag and give that a go.

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System Volume Information may be taking up a lot of space.

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You are not taking into account any hidden files that may be on the drive.

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