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
    2022-10-30T19:23:03+00:00

    I have to go for a while, we'll continue later.

    Thanks, regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-30T19:41:19+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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    227MB is nothing, it is probably needed for the file system, it shows some MBs on all drives.

    I'm sure you can delete your 14GB too.

    I'm going thru all systems, and all have the same issue, I just delete the old restore points and recover all the space. 🤣🤣

    And the same B.S. with windows 10. 🤣🤷‍♂️

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-30T21:53:30+00:00

    The only machine that showed an abnormal behavior was this second Windows 10 machine at Build 19045.2193 in R.P.

    After I deleted the old Restore points it was still showing over 68 GB on D: and 82 GB on E:

    It took a couple of reboots and going back in and out to the Storage usage screen before they finally refreshed to the few hundreds MB showing now. 🤣🤣🤣

    All the other machines refreshed that value right after deleting the Restore points and going back in the Storage usage screen.

    Typical MS inconsistency. 😝🤣🤷‍♂️

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-30T22:16:12+00:00

    Here is another normal case with Windows 11 22621.755.

    Before doing anything my E: drive showed this:

    After deleting restore points:

    Only System files left, this refreshed right away. 😉

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