WinDirStat says C Drive is 40GB, Windows says it's 265GB?

ZeeDeveel · 14 Jun 2016 at 15:26

Hi guys, I've got a 120GB SSD and I'm wanting to clone my HDD over to it. WinDirStat drive analysis tool is telling me I've managed to delete everything except 40GB of data, but Windows is saying that I've only got 193GB free from a 500GB HDD. What could be taking up all that space? I've ran CCleaner, Defragged the drive, ran windows disk clean up. Answers on a stamped, addressed envelope, P.O. Box PLZHALPMEH!

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smogsy · 14 Jun 2016 at 15:41

ZeeDeveel said:
Hi guys, I've got a 120GB SSD and I'm wanting to clone my HDD over to it. WinDirStat drive analysis tool is telling me I've managed to delete everything except 40GB of data, but Windows is saying that I've only got 193GB free from a 500GB HDD. What could be taking up all that space? I've ran CCleaner, Defragged the drive, ran windows disk clean up. Answers on a stamped, addressed envelope, P.O. Box PLZHALPMEH!
Run a chkdsk should recalculate free space
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Orcvader · 14 Jun 2016 at 16:54

Might be worth deleting any old restore points as well, they can take up a fair bit of space.

james.miller · 14 Jun 2016 at 16:57

run windirstat as admin and scan it again

ZeeDeveel · 14 Jun 2016 at 20:19

james.miller said:
run windirstat as admin and scan it again

Hi James,

Just gave it a go, it seems to have found 1-2 more GB, but that may have been stuff I downloaded today lol.

Is there a way to copy windows installation without cloning the drive?

ZeeDeveel · 14 Jun 2016 at 20:26

w00t fixed it.

Apparently my System Restore backups directory was set to a maximum size of 50% of my entire hard drive and was taking up 230GB of data! O.o

Orcvader · 14 Jun 2016 at 21:38

ZeeDeveel said:
w00t fixed it.

Apparently my System Restore backups directory was set to a maximum size of 50% of my entire hard drive and was taking up 230GB of data! O.o

If you're using Avast, modify it and uninstall the "NG feature". For some reason that forces system restore to be 50%.