Where is my drive space? 125GB missing.

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  1. Posts : 2,164
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
       #1

    Where is my drive space? 125GB missing.


    For some strange reason I have about 125GB missing from my system drive, and I can't find out what or where the problem is.
    here is a screen shot of my drive,



    I did select to show Hidden and System files last night when I was trying to see where everything was and I just can't figure out what is holding all of that space hostage.

    There is nothing in the recycle bin, ran disk cleanup a few times, defragged the drive, went through almost every folder as well looking.

    this is really strange.
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  2. Posts : 108
    windows
       #2

    Zepher said:
    For some strange reason I have about 125GB missing from my system drive, and I can't find out what or where the problem is.
    here is a screen shot of my drive,



    I did select to show Hidden and System files last night when I was trying to see where everything was and I just can't figure out what is holding all of that space hostage.

    There is nothing in the recycle bin, ran disk cleanup a few times, defragged the drive, went through almost every folder as well looking.

    this is really strange.
    go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, click on disk management. take a screenshot of that and post it.
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  3. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #3

    Run a tool like Windirstat or TreeSize free to see what is taking space.

    My guess is that it's system restore points. Right click My COmputer, Properties, System protection and look at your C drive. That can easily eat up quite a bit of drive space.
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  4. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #4

    Take a look at this post:

    HDD missing 50gb help
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  5. Posts : 100
    Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
       #5

    That's probably your Windows System Reserved section.

    Read more here: System Reserved 100 Mb
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  6. Posts : 2,164
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Here is a pic of the Disk Management screen.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Where is my drive space? 125GB missing.-diskmanagement.jpg  
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  7. Posts : 108
    windows
       #7

    RadioJoe said:
    That's probably your Windows System Reserved section.

    Read more here: System Reserved 100 Mb
    it is 125 gigabytes he is missing not 125 megabytes.
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  8. Posts : 108
    windows
       #8

    RadioJoe said:
    That's probably your Windows System Reserved section.

    Read more here: System Reserved 100 Mb
    it is 125 gigabytes he is missing not 125 megabytes.

    so the win7 64 drive is a 350 gig or more drive?
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  9. Posts : 2,164
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    I did the shadow command that is in the other thread and this is what it shows.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Where is my drive space? 125GB missing.-shadow.jpg  
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  10. Posts : 2,164
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    monkeys breath said:
    RadioJoe said:
    That's probably your Windows System Reserved section.

    Read more here: System Reserved 100 Mb
    it is 125 gigabytes he is missing not 125 megabytes.

    so the win7 64 drive is a 350 gig or more drive?
    The Drive is 1TB, but partitioned into 200GB and 731GB.
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