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Not sure if this is the screen shot you want BUT..... there is a 96 GB file under system with a random number/letter labelled folder. Safe, in my opinion, to assume this is the missing space.
P.S. cool program.
Just got bunch of responses while doing this. This response to NOTSOGREYMATTER. Thanks for suggestion and all others.
Is any way to find out what Windows is doing with it. Maybe like another suggestion that partitioned wrong.
Here is what I think your HDD will look like:
In others words, a hard drive with more unallocated space than it should have. The one in the picture is a 1TB drive. When properly formatted, the partitions will add up to 930GB. However, because there is only one partition with 800GB, there is 130GB of unallocated space. The way to correct this is to resize the 800GB partition to 930GB.
In partition wizard:
Select the partition (In my case Example HD [800GB NTFS])
Click Move/Resize
Change the size of the partition to the maximum allowed (In my case 930GB)
Note: If you partition doesn't show a larger than normal unallocated space then either your computer isnt detecting it correctly, or it is smaller than you believe. You can see the full size via the top bar which in mine says Disk 3 931.51GB ( SAMSUNG HD 103UJ )
the last snipshot was taken as is. Only had the one partition. I did no editing, so I did not apply.
You may have missed ths snipshot from earlier as I was editing while you were posting and may have got over looked. You can see a 96 GB file with random letter/number name. This is my missing space, just don't know what to do with it.
There is also a 3 GB file, random numver/lettter folder.
I have exposed all hidden folders, and system folders in Windows, but these two files only appear when I use the PartitionWizard program you suggested.
This could be the shadowstorage. Open an elevated Command Prompt (run as admin) and paste this command in:
vssadmin list shadowstorage
Then look for your drive and the 3 numbers (used, allocated, maximum). It would be the allocated that is the current size of the reserved shadowstorage (the area where restore points go).
If that is it, post back and I tell you how to resize/delete it.
There you go - there are your 98 GBs that are missing. And it will continue to grab space all the way to 140GBs. If you want to reduce it, do the following:
1. right click on "Computer" in the right pane of Start
2. go to Properties
3. go to "Advanced System settings" on the top left
4. go to the "system protection" button
4a. highlight the drive in question
5. click "configure"
6. there you can adjust the slider to any value you like - it should be sitting at appr. 140GB right now.
7. don't forget "Apply" and OK