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How to know what folders recently use a lot hard disk space in Win 10?

I'm using Win Dir Stats now but it can't tell which folder RECENTLY increased the use of space.
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Disk is displayed in Win10 as completely occupied but the disk is not full

It is a known bug that Win 10 wrongly counts disk space. Link1, Link2 In my case I want to copy 588GB from an external HDD partition to another internal SSD partition of size 605GB. The copy ...
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1 answer
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Windows 10 doesn't calculate used space on disk properly

I am attaching screenshot of the problem Disk size comparasion When I select everything in C:\ it calculates different size of when I see my C: drive in "This PC". I am trying to understand what is ...
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I want to extend Local Disk C but I can't create unallocated space next to it so that i just simply extend it

I urgently need to extend my Local Disk C but when O shrink the other disk (E), the unallocated space appears after disk E so I'm unable to extend disk C to the unallocated space.
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How to Extend the Primary Boot C Drive Partition - Extend Option Grayed Out [duplicate]

I see the "Extend Partition" option is grayed out in the Disk Management tool and as far as I can understand I need to move my data to another drive and change the drive letters. This is something I ...
Stephanie Safflower's user avatar
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1 answer
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How can I get any programs to only/always interact with D: instead instead of C:? [duplicate]

I've built a rig with a small SSD for C: which I want to be pretty much only for the OS, and a HDD D: drive. Problem is, even when I tell them to install and run from D: a lot of programs keep sending ...
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1 answer
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Hard drive full, but files / folders don't add up to used drive space [duplicate]

My harddrive is full, but according to the size of all my folders, I should have more than half of my drive left over.
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Windows 10 is it safe to remove AppData content from my user

I have Microsoft Windows 10 installed in 1st partition of size 100gb, from couple of months I have been running into low disks pace and for same reasons not my windows getting latest updates nor able ...
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Replace secondary drive with bigger one, while keeping the data and letter (D:)

I have 2 HDD disks on my computer. The second one was some programs, git repositories and steam games. How can I clone the data to a bigger disk and replace it without having to configure all the ...
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mac parallels win10 expanded to take entire drive

I am running win10 via parallels on mac air 256Gb SSD with the drive split 50/50 for MacOS and Win10. from mac disk utility I see the entire 100+ Gigs being used. In trying to clean up some space, I ...
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Where can I find and remove Pending Updates and Preview Builds in Windows 10?

I have an ACER laptop with 30G of hard drive space, and as I learned after purchasing, most of that in Windows 10 is consumed by System files :) So I have precious little space to spare, and wonder ...
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Shrink failed in windows 10 due to The last unmovable file appears to be: \$BitMap::$DATA

I am using Windows 10 OS and have 800gb of free space in Volume C: of my 1TB Hard disk. i only have C: drive and a recovery drive. I am trying to do a partition but it's failing due to unmovable ...
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So much Hard Disk storage is wasted [duplicate]

I have 1TB of hard disk and I don't know why but only 930gb is usable and then I have 4 partition 3 NTFS and 1 for Linux they all have 2-6gb less storage than there actual size ie: Linux partition ...
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1 TB hardrive not giving all the space

I have sort of a problem that I cannot seem to fix, my hard drive is 1 TB and is only displaying 565GB and 357GB aren't located to anywhere and particular and I would like to have the 931GB that shows ...
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Disk Managment reporting two different sizes of same partition

I am migrating a win 10 install from a 250GB drive to a 1.5TB drive. I used clonezilla to clone the drive and scale the windows partition up to fill the unused space. Upon booting back into windows ...
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