Hard drive showing full when it's not

dancook

dancook

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My wife's laptop has a ~200gb SSD in it, the partition is ~200gb usage is showing 99%

I tried various ways of checking for the culprit, and ended up with WinDirStat which confirms about 90gb space usage based on folders

The windows/installer folder accounts for about 60gb or data, programs and documents are not considerable. Windows cleanup only offer minimal space recovery.

I cannot see where the other ~110gb is coming from
 
Windirstat is useful but I find it has limitations
It doesn't account for my restore points
Or actually my recycle bin either
So it says 40gb used but windows says 60gb used
I find software called folder size more useful
And as said look for hidden files/folders
Had it once my antivirus was creating a huge dump file
Which was hidden
Every time I freed up disk space the file grew and filled the space
 
Thanks for help,

It led me to google search 'windirstat hidden files' - and I tried treesize instead.

Treesize showed a folder c:\system recovery\ which was about 120gb in total - it does not show as a hidden file in c:

If i delete all restore points, the folder is unaffected, it may be Dell related.

I then found a CMD tool and registry file to add a 'take ownership' context menu - it's running now to grant control over the system recovery folder files recursively.

Then I will delete them all...
 
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