I have a relatively new system (a few months old) with Windows 7 OS. The main drive c: is 1.36TB capacity but it was reporting only 5MB free!! This could not be right but I deleted some backup files and it's now reporting only 257GB free. This cannot possibly be right as I only have Windows, MS Office and a few minor programmes installed.
I have six folders in my root c: and this is the space consumption reported by right click properties on each folder:
My Websites: 1.52GB
Programme Files: 2.39GB
Pogramme Files (x86): 5.25GB
Programme Data: 1.53GB
Users: 20GB
Windows: 22.1GB
The total only adds up to a little over 51GB. I have no idea why windows thinks that there's only 257GB left from a 1.36TB drive that contains only 51GB of data.
I've ran a full CHKDSK from a reboot which took several hours and did not find any errors. Computer restarted overnight and still reports the wrong space.
I have ran a disk cleanup and emptied recycle bin, so it's not that.
I have defragged the drive, even though it's scheduled to do so weekly and was reporting 0% fragmented. So it's not that.
I've checked that system restore is switched off, so it's not that. There are no restore points so no space consumption there.
I have checked the disk management and there aren't any empty partitions, so it's not that:
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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