I recently noticed that the total size of files and folders on my system partition seemed to be far smaller than the overall size of the partition. I've tried to take into account everything I can think of but I still come up 120gb short out of the total 450gb. Maybe someone can thing of something I missed?
My OS is Windows 7 and my system disk is a 480gb Intel 520 SSD. It's formatted with the default partitions (MBR, 100mb system reserved, 447.01gb system partition).
According to Windows, the size of the partition is 447gb. 441gb is used, and 5.36 is free. According to Windows Explorer, the total size of all files and folders is 324gb, and their size on disk is 317gb. According to WinDirStat, the total size of all files and folders is 317gb. So this comes out to somewhere between 120gb and 130gb of space that's simply missing.
Here's what I've checked so far:
- Recycle Bin is empty
- I made sure to include all hidden files and systems files (like pagefile.sys) when totaling up the size of files and folders
- System Protection (shadow copy & system restore) is only using 1.55gb. (According to Windows anyways)
- chkdsk says that there are 0 bad sectors and no problems of any other kind.
- Intel SSD Toolbox reports no problems and 100% health for the SSD.
What else could be taking up the space?
My OS is Windows 7 and my system disk is a 480gb Intel 520 SSD. It's formatted with the default partitions (MBR, 100mb system reserved, 447.01gb system partition).
According to Windows, the size of the partition is 447gb. 441gb is used, and 5.36 is free. According to Windows Explorer, the total size of all files and folders is 324gb, and their size on disk is 317gb. According to WinDirStat, the total size of all files and folders is 317gb. So this comes out to somewhere between 120gb and 130gb of space that's simply missing.
Here's what I've checked so far:
- Recycle Bin is empty
- I made sure to include all hidden files and systems files (like pagefile.sys) when totaling up the size of files and folders
- System Protection (shadow copy & system restore) is only using 1.55gb. (According to Windows anyways)
- chkdsk says that there are 0 bad sectors and no problems of any other kind.
- Intel SSD Toolbox reports no problems and 100% health for the SSD.
What else could be taking up the space?
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