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
    2022-10-30T18:45:40+00:00

    All gone after deleting old Restore points, only 227 MB showing now:

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    I deleted all the old restore points, I never used them. 🤣

    Looks like the default setting for Restore points is 30% of the disk space.

    But my system protection is disabled, so I should not see that space used again. 🤷‍♂️

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-30T18:51:14+00:00

    If you have system protection enable then that is fine as long as the numbers match, but never mind that,

    in my case it is disabled.

    Windows is reporting 14GB of ghost files, where are they? and why they're on both drives?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-30T19:00:49+00:00

    If you have system protection enable then that is fine as long as the numbers match, but never mind that,

    in my case it is disabled.

    Windows is reporting 14GB of ghost files, where are they? and why they're on both drives?

    Mine were disabled too, but it was old space used, so I just deleted the old restore points and now that space has been freed up.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-30T19:13:55+00:00

    Mine were disabled too, but it was old space used, so I just deleted the old restore points and now that space has been freed up.

    Please forget system protection, that's not an issue although you are still showing 227MB of System & reserved files on E: after deleting all restore points.

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