How to delete hidden files in D formatted drive?

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  1. Posts : 117
    windows 10 Education Build 16299 x64
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    How to delete hidden files in D formatted drive?


    i formatted D Drive Completely and its empty.
    But when im using defraggler theres a files 117.9 MB files are still there.
    how to delete them?
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  2. Posts : 7,607
    Windows 10 Home 20H2
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  3. Posts : 117
    windows 10 Education Build 16299 x64
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    Matthew Wai said:
    nope doesn't work
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  4. Posts : 4,594
    Windows 10 Pro
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    Try diskpart and the clean command.
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  5. Posts : 4,224
    Windows 10
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    It's not very much stuff/space overall, and apparently it's a part of NTFS used to track file changes in/from applications. Here's an MS Answers discussion that's pretty informative: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...1-9556a8c8b0e4.
    I'd leave it alone, or as @AddRAM suggests, use diskpart to clean the drive and start over.
    Good luck either way and HTH,
    --Ed--
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  6. Posts : 117
    windows 10 Education Build 16299 x64
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    AddRAM said:
    Try diskpart and the clean command.
    if i do this does it clean entire drive i mean formatted include C drive????

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    EdTittel said:
    It's not very much stuff/space overall, and apparently it's a part of NTFS used to track file changes in/from applications. Here's an MS Answers discussion that's pretty informative: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...1-9556a8c8b0e4.
    I'd leave it alone, or as @AddRAM suggests, use diskpart to clean the drive and start over.
    Good luck either way and HTH,
    --Ed--
    i just did clean install !!!
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  7. Posts : 7,607
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    remostalin said:
    if i do this does it clean entire drive i mean formatted include C drive????
    The Clean command will delete all the partitions. Then, you have to re-partition and format the drive.
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  8. Posts : 2,144
    Windows 11 Pro (latest update ... forever anal)
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    Don't format, (manually) delete the partition(s) and recreate (EaseUS or AOMEI freeware versions).

    Whatever's left/still there is systems based.
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  9. Posts : 7,607
    Windows 10 Home 20H2
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    You don't need a third-party app to create partitions. DiskPart can do the job.
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  10. Posts : 7,906
    Windows 11 Pro 64 bit
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    You can use TreeSize Free in admin mode to delete such files
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