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Allocate free disk space to partition in dual boot (Fedora & Windows)
My setup is the following: dual-boot system with Fedora 40 (Linux) and Windows 10 operating systems.
I have several unollacted disk spaces when inspecting my hard drive in Fedora. The following ...
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What may be causing C Drive storage increases of more than 20GB overnight?
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Windows 10 user here. As the title says, somehow overnight my C drive has been populated with 20GB of data overnight. The situation happened recently, and is something new, as it has not ...
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Why does Windows always reports slightly wrong sizes when formatting a disk?
I've installed Windows probably thousands of times since Windows 3.1. I forget the situation in Win 3.1, but from Windows 95 onwards, Windows has never respected partition size reality, and as it's ...
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Transfering mirrored disks to different computer
I had two 3TB HDDs on my old computer. These were setup to be mirrored using Window's Disk Management util.
I am now trying to use those two HDDs on my new computer. I plugged them in using the ...
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Explorer crashed while moving files to external drive, amount of free space after that is wrong
During the weekend something strange happened, which I don't understand.
Maybe somebody smarter than me can help me out here.
Last weekend I had the idea to move some movie files from my internal D ...
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New Simple Volume with greyed when add a new Hard Disks
On the Disk Management panel that cannot choose "New Simple Volume". How to fix this issue?
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Empty Partition Reported as Full
I have a Windows 10 desktop with a 1 TB drive that I use for my OS partition plus one other 500 MB partition (mounted as E:) that almost exclusively has junction links to folders on my other drives (...
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Failed install of Hyper V uses up 18GB of HDD [duplicate]
I've decided to try out the 'Hyper-V Windows 10 dev environment' on my laptop. Beginning this I only had about 20gb remaining so had to remove an additional 20gb from my hard drive, leaving me with ...
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PowerShell Increases Disk Size as Desired but Throwing Errors Without any Problems
This script loads a .csv file and iterates through a list of VM's and checks free disk space and if below a certain amount in GB, increases disk space to that specified in the script. If the free ...
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Why do identical folders on two different hard drives of the same file count and file sizes, take up a different size on disk? [duplicate]
Both have
216,540 files
52,103 folders
Size: 278 GB (299,363,715,785 bytes)
But for one hard drive the size on disk is 278 GB (299,672,182,784 bytes) and for another it's 278 GB (299,672,211,456 ...
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External hard drive - 40 MB folder has a 5 GB "size on disk"
I was now copying a folder which contains thousands of small files (about 3-4 KB each) from my laptop to my external hard disk. The whole folder should be around 40 MB. However, I noticed the process ...
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Are any relation between 100% disk usage and reallocated sector count and current pending sector count?
I am suffering from 100% disk usage while not using anything on my hp pc. I run crystal disk info and the health status was caution, also I observed yellow sign beside reallocated sector count and ...
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System Volume Information folder on E drive... But System Protection not enabled for that drive?
I'm running Windows 10, and have a 302GB HDD for my E drive and a 300GB HDD for a D drive.
On the D drive, there is a System Volume Information folder taking up 100GB... I'd like to reduce or ...
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Windows 10 45Gb space was missing
This is latest, happened two days back on 07-07-2020. I have been using windows for year and I have installed and uninstalled a lot of software in between. My disk space in C:\ drive is 250 GB and it ...
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Windows 10 C drive gets slightly bigger everytime I start the computer
I have TightVNC and ScreenConnect on my Windows 10 computer, and every time I turn on my computer and log in, the C: partition adds more bytes to the total size of the C: partition; it's not a huge ...
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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.
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
