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175 GB of unaccounted storage space
My hard drive has a capacity of 465 GB. I've run WinDirStat and it says that there are only 228 GB worth of files on my hard drive. Windows, however, states that I only have 62 GB free. This leaves about 175 GB unaccounted for.
I tried defragmenting my disk, but it didn't help. I also ran disk clean up and deleted all the restore points/shadow storage, but that also didn't make a difference. I ran the command line "vssadmin list shadowstorage" to double check, and it says that shadow storage is only taking up about 3 GB.
Here are some pics of storage management in "my computer", WinDirStat results, and a window showing disk usage for restore points.
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I'm at a lost as to where the space is being taken up. Any help will be appreciated.
EDIT: WinDirStat is showing 172 GB of unknown space. What can this be? I'm running a full disk check now, as another thread with a similar problem found this to be the solution.
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EDIT 2: The disk check did nothing...