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Excessive Storage?
Followed other threads but found no quick fix.
Using various methods to look at my Win10 Pro C:\ storage. No old install or associated files, with an empty bin and a single restore point:
Explorer Local Disk (C:) - 173GB free of 237GB
Disk Management
Recovery Partition - 450MB
System Rreserved - 350MB
C: - 237.69GB
System - Storage - This PC (C:)
64.5GB used out of 238GB
System & Reserved 48.3GB with split System 47GB, Virtual Memory 1.01GB, 287MB System Restore of 4.75GB allocated.
Apps & Games - 8.89GB
Other - 4.08GB the largest part being 3.12 GB C:\ESD
Documents - 3.88GB
Pictures - 830MB
(total others 90.62MB)
In agreement that usage on the C: partition is about 64GB of 237GB. Using various 3rd party utilities (WinDIRStat etc) C:\ is more like 43GB e.g. TreeSize:
42.7GB C:\ with
15.6GB Windows
11.6GB ProgramData
6.2GB Users
3.1GB ESD
1.8GB Program Files (x86)
1.3GB Program Files
1.0GB 31 Files
+ 9 files all less than 1MB
These on an SSD with 4096 bytes/cluster NTFS.
Win10 has 64GB used in C:\ but other utilities say 43GB on C\: and I am trying to explain the 21GB difference. Is it storage that I could partially recover? With System at around 47GB but only 15.6GB for Windows (Explorer says 14GB) then there could be an issue in the 'System' section. Could it be that filesize vs. filesize on disk could explain the difference?
*this is a recent Windows install chkdsk, scannow and other tools have been run without flagging issues.
Thanks Dave