Questions tagged [disk-space]
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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Folder Size 18.7gb but Size on disk 1.33TB - why/how could this have happened? Synology DS212 NAS RAID
To start - I am way out of my comfort zone trying to fix this problem but I am not sure what else to do!
We have (2) 3TB hard drives in a Synology DS212 NAS RAID and are constantly running into ...
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What are those huge one-letter files in Windows folder?
I used WinDirStat to display my hd content to find what take so much space. I found that there are five files of 15.9 GB in C:\Windows folder.
Does someone know what are those files? Can I delete ...
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Spanning volume disk usage [duplicate]
I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood.
Will the first disk ...
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Used space does not match sum of all files
I run Windows 10 in VirtualBox and get the following values regarding hard disk usage.
Used space: 12.2 GB.
Sum of all files: If I open Windows Explorer, select all files and choose properties, I ...
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Disk usage is always at 100%
I have noticed that recently my computer has been slowing down. For example opening a folder would take around 20 seconds to load, moving a folder (from the same drive) would take a minute or so. When ...
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Does Visual Studio 2013 Express require space on the system drive? [duplicate]
Does Visual Studio 2013 Express require space on the system drive? I have only ~5GB free on C:/. I ask because I remember that VS2012 takes lots of space on system drive even if you choose to install ...
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Free disk space in Windows 7
One of the OS I frequently use is Windows 7. Unfortunately I recently ran out of partition space (partition D:, which has total size 668GB). I uninstalled some big, unused applications. However I ...
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Is it surprising that WinDirStat takes a long time to analyze 8TB drive?
I just installed WinDirStat to figure out why a NAS seems to be filling up faster than expected. The NAS is mounted as a drive on my Windows 7 machine, and 7TB of its 8TB are full so I want to find ...
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Modify a large file, then be able to rollback changes doing it (almost) inplace
I'm recovering data from a damaged 500GB disk drive. I'm copying data (ext4 partition) to a 500GB image file. The process is taking about 3 months of copying in total (yes, months). So I'm using dd ...
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Symantec anti-virus is filling up my harddrive
I've been tracking down where all my disk space is being used and I found out that this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
Application Data\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition\7.5
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Brand new external hard drive has 133MB used space?
I just purchased a brand new WD Elements 1.5TB Hard drive.
I have deleted all the files that were on it, even the hidden ones, and done a "Quick Format" through windows explorer.
Yet, when I look at ...
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System Restore takes up more space as time goes by
Does anyone know the reason for System Restore taking up more drive space after only a few days? I'm not making any new restore points but it still seems to increase in size.
For example, I make a ...
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How to detect who is consuming permanently space on Hard Disk
My System Disk "C:\", where is installed Win7x64 OS has 80 GB. I hah last time free space 8 GB, after uninstalling some apps and cleanup Disk, BUT every day disk free space is varying from 8 to 1 GB, ...
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Windows Disk Cleanup reports I could save 357GB on a 256GB drive?
Can someone explain what is happening here? It's got to be a software bug in Disk Cleanup.
The drive is a 256GB SSD drive.
Windows is reporting %temp% is only 7.2GB.
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Why is my HDD missing about 35 GB? [duplicate]
I have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go?
This is what my HDD looks like in the ...
