System & reserved files on a secondary drive?

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

Beta build 22623.875 & Dev build 25231.1000

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
    2022-10-31T03:44:17+00:00

    What Lenka was pointing out, when this is unchecked, you can see the individual settings for the other drives.

    I checked already, no paging file on D:

    If there was one, it would have shown on the screenshot of D: above, just like it shows for C: when 'Hidden unprotected operating system files' is unchecked.

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    btw: you were right about needing an expert because I can't find any system files on the empty drive even with "Hide protected operating system files" unchecked.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T07:33:09+00:00

    Hello, Sibro.o

    Welcome to Microsoft Community.

    Thanks for your inquiry, I think you may have questions about NTFS taking up a lot of space for system and file recovery.

    I think your hard disk is in NTFS format

    NTFS will take up additional space to save the recovered data when storing data. At least 4% of the space should be used

    This is the basis of NTFS format reliability

    Here are some technical documents for your reference

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/ntfs-overview?source=recommendations

    These recovery information will also be displayed in the system&reserved project together with other system files.

    I hope the above information can help you. If my understanding is wrong, please point it out, so that I can assist you better.

    Lugoo Bei|Microsoft Community Support Specialist

    Thanks for your contribution to the community!

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