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Unaccounted For Storage

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by PGallant, May 28, 2015.

  1. PGallant

    PGallant

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    Had a hundred GBs show up on my Local Disk (E:) drive. Unable to locate what or where they are. Can only account for less that 40 GBs on the drive. How do I find and get rid of the 100 + GBs? This photo illustrates my dilemma:
     

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  2. Plastic Nev

    Plastic Nev SUPER MODERATOR IN MEMORY

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    Hi, and welcome to Computer Help Forums.
    It may well be they are hidden files, though why so many we won't know till you find them and can tell us what they are.
    Here is how to find the hidden files and folders in Windows 7.
    Click on the start button then type in the search box "Folder Options" Then click on Folder Options when the list appears.
    In the window that then appears click on the "View" tab, then scroll down the list to "Hidden files and folders", and put the dot in the button "Show Hidden files folders and drives"
    Click "Apply" then OK.
    You should then be able to see what the data is in your E drive.

    A screen shot of what is there will be useful so we can advise what to do with it.

    However, I do also notice that your other drives are all getting full, so I advise doing something about cleaning up and deleting unwanted data on them all, you are risking corruption of the operating system when drives are that full.

    Nev.
     
  3. allheart55 (Cindy E)

    allheart55 (Cindy E) Administrator Administrator

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    CPU:
    AMD Phenom II X6 1090T-Thuban 3.2GHz
    Memory:
    Crucial-DDR3 SDRAM 1333-8GB
    Hard Drive:
    WD Caviar Black SE HDD 640 GB - WD Caviar Black SE HDD 500 GB
    Graphics Card:
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    It could also be system restore points if you have SR enabled on that drive.
     
  4. PGallant

    PGallant

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    Applied advice on hidden file folders and drives, but have had no luck freeing up space, and have not noticed anything new.

    How would I find system restore points, and remove them?
     
  5. allheart55 (Cindy E)

    allheart55 (Cindy E) Administrator Administrator

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    Memory:
    Crucial-DDR3 SDRAM 1333-8GB
    Hard Drive:
    WD Caviar Black SE HDD 640 GB - WD Caviar Black SE HDD 500 GB
    Graphics Card:
    Sapphire Radeon HD-7870 2GB
    Power Supply:
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    Click on Start > Control Panel > System > System Protection.
    In the Window that opens on System Protection, click on Configure.
     
  6. Rich M

    Rich M Guest

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    How can they be the same partition or drive. The one would likely not even open showing 200 odd meg free on a 215Gb partition and the other shows the partition to be only 34.6 Gb in use.
     

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