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When will M$ learn to give people the ability to turn things like that on or off, and not just them changing it in an update or not? We should be able to customize every single thing on this system. The more delicate things should be harder to change, but still customizable for those knowledgeable enough to do it. People want choices. But M$ is a control freak...
Well, I figured out what is going on, and it is really pretty unbelievable.
It seems that if you have any partitions on the drive that contains the C: partition that are formatted, but not formatted to NTFS (e.g., Linux partitions formatted ext4), the space in those partitions is folded into the number reported for C:! Unallocated space is NOT reported as part of C:, only non-NTFS formatted partitions.
I have tested this with 3 different Windows installations, and that's what sure seems to be going on. The final test was to delete a Linux partition, and sure enough the space reported changed accordingly.
I don't know when this issue began - in any case it exists in 17763 from the beginning, and all subsequent Insiders builds. I suspect it goes way back to the beginning of the settings/storage feature. In any case, it's not just an Insiders thing - it's production code.
Just plain shoddy coding.
Exactly! I have 131GB free on my system drive, and that is with a 26.8GB Windows.Old folder still there. So I see no reason to do this at all. Of course this reminds me to do a disk cleanup to get rid of that folder.
Yeah! I made the mistake of clicking on it after the update, I got a very loud noise and a frozen system. Won't do that again. Of course it worked perfectly well on my last build. Lol. M$ loves to introduce new features, and then obliterate them in the next update.