System & reserved files on a secondary drive?

Anonymous
2022-10-30T02:00:47+00:00

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System > Storage > Advance storage settings > Disk & volumes > Disk 1 > Volume name > Properties > View usage

I didn't know about this until now, is this normal? why do we need system & reserved files on a secondary drive?

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Anonymous
2022-10-31T22:34:03+00:00

Copy back a few folders at the time and keep checking to see when those 14GB start showing up in the System files. Then you can isolate which one is causing the problem.

I followed your advise and copying folder by folder does not reproduce the issue.

However, if I copy everthing at once the 14GBs come back. 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the suggestion 👍

Done and dusted!

Good that you could clean it up.

I guess we'll never know what caused the problem in the first place.

Perhaps when you got the BSOD?

Probably when you do a clone you copy over also the problem. 🤣🤣

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T02:22:40+00:00

    Due to the fact that your D drive already has system retention files, it will still be there after you restore the system.

    It shouldn't be like that. The OS should not rely on a secondary drive for System files or System & reserved files. Please read my reasoning on a previous comment.

    Also, I checked that if you check the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" box for virtual memory, it may cause this problem, because virtual memory is automatically allocated to other drives after checking this box.

    Paging file size is managed by Windows for C: drive only.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T02:21:05+00:00

    Hi Sibro,

    see the last reply from Lenka.

    Is there any paging on your D: disk?

    On my machines the paging is only on the C: drive, but you have a much smaller C: drive. 😎

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T02:15:43+00:00

    @Lenka-MSFT,

    Hello, thanks for the hint.

    I checked mine on Windows 11 and it is set for Automatically manage paging file size for all drives, but I don't have the problem that Sibro is reporting.

    Perhaps his C: drive is smaller, and paging is allocated on other drives, but for sure it is not the case on any of my machines.

    I'll wait for Sibro to check his machine.

    He should be able to see if there is any of these files on his D: drive and if he has any space allocated for paging on his D: drive.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T02:13:55+00:00

    That looks like a screw up, something is corrupted in the file system.

    Did you try a check disk?

    My properties screen looks quite different from yours. Here I show the used space on an empty drive just formatted.

    The other 2 below are the same as yours.

    Or Windows is misreporting this System & reserved stuff.

    The empty formatted replacement test drive is not affected as shown earlier but even 97MB seems too much for just a bunch of system files.

    What are we talking about? an empty system volume information folder and an empty recycle bin?

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    Please do me a favor, try to find those 94.5MB on your disk if you can, it will be very helpful.

    I did check the disk several times, the 14GB are still there.

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