Tuesday, April 21, 2015

windows 8.1 - Wrong disk space displayed


My main SSD shows me that I have 2.51Gb space left.


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But when I add up everything in C:/ by selecting all (including hidden folders and Windows folder) and looking at properties, it only takes 61.5Gb.


How in Windows' world 118Gb minus 61.5Gb can result in 2.51Gb? I ran CCleaner, Spybot, Avast, Windows cleaning disk tool, nothing changed.


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Answer



I wasn't aware of shadows, and it was the cause.


vssadmin list shadowstorage

Thanks to this command I found out I had 47Gb of backups. I just shrank the allowed shadow space to a few Gb, and I recovered all my disk space.


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