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  1. Posts : 70
    Windows 10 Pro
       #1

    install SSD


    Installing Preview on two ssd.128gb and 64gb.
    Install shows 33gb used.After update to latest version they show 58gb used.
    This does not happen when installed on a standard Harddrive.
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  2. Posts : 4,594
    Windows 10 Pro
       #2

    Pick 1 machine, choose 1 ssd, delete or format your install partition, install 9841 and get back to us with the numbers.

    How much memory is involved, remember your page file takes up space.

    And please fill in the specs of that machine so we can help you
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  3. Posts : 70
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Disk shows 33gb used

    Asus M4A88T-M-USB3 Motherboard
    eveg nvideo gt 420 graphic card
    AMD phemon ll x 2 560 CPU
    8gb memory

    May have some thing to with the way I'm formatting the drive.
    I reformat it with parted Magic.

    I did a new install with a new SSD out of the box no OS installed and it gave me 13gb used
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  4. whs
    Posts : 1,935
    Windows 7
       #4

    Best is if you analyse the content with WinDirStat. Then you know exactly what's on the disk (except for the shadowstorage).

    To determine the size if the used shadowstorage, you have to run this command:

    vssadmin list shadowstorage
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  5. Posts : 14,046
    Windows 11 Pro X64 22H2 22621.1848
       #5

    If you updated then there is a Windows.old that you need to delete.
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  6. Posts : 70
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Windows.old only shows 6.5gb. After I remove it still 52GB used.

    Two different machines and ssd. I get the same 52GB used.

    Reinstall Windows 8.1 on one ssd. 22gb used. Which I think is what I should get.
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  7. whs
    Posts : 1,935
    Windows 7
       #7

    Did you make the checks I suggested in post #4 and what were the results.
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  8. Posts : 70
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #8

    yes
    c: drive 52gb

    win 52gb

    I think win should be 13gb can not see the 39gb of use
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  9. Posts : 4,594
    Windows 10 Pro
       #9

    With 8.1 or 10 and 4 GB of memory I come up with 21 GB for each OS, right on the money.

    Actually, 10 Build 9841 is only 18 GB

    My page file for 8.1 Pro is only 1344 MB, strange, I should raise that to 4 GB.

    And it`s exactly the same with 10 But that just makes perfect sense.
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  10. Posts : 9,652
    W10 Pro, W10 Home
       #10

    A clean install of W10 TP with the page file set at a maximum of 2 GBs takes up 19.2 on my SSD.
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