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
    2022-10-31T03:26:26+00:00

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

    I don't know if there could be a setting that could be set for System managed on a specific drive and it cannot be seen.

    Anyway, easy enough to go through each one to make sure.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T03:16:08+00:00

    Then your D: drive is screwed up.

    Copy over all your data on the other drive that you formatted and then replace it.

    That is definitely a possibility, I cloned the drive already just in case.

    As for the 94 MB used space on the empty formatted drive, they are probably part of the file system.

    You need a File System expert to answer that question.

    If you uncheck hide protected files, you can't see them either?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T03:10:32+00:00

    These 2 numbers on your screenshot look suspicious. 😎

    Never mind that.

    Please find those files on your drive, that will help me find my 14GBs

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    No other funny folders that could be setup by the system?

    You are not saying that the D: disk is empty, right?

    No funny folders, hidden partitions nor hidden folder or files.

    D: is not empty of course.

    Then your D: drive is screwed up.

    Copy over all your data on the other drive that you formatted and then replace it.

    As for the 94 MB used space on the empty formatted drive, they are probably part of the file system.

    You need a File System expert to answer that question. The same disk has 142 MB occupied when formatted by Disk Management, what are they adding?

    The same empty formatted disk in both cases. Why the difference? 🤣🤣

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-31T02:57:23+00:00

    These 2 numbers on your screenshot look suspicious. 😎

    Never mind that.

    Please find those files on your drive, that will help me find my 14GBs

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    No other funny folders that could be setup by the system?

    You are not saying that the D: disk is empty, right?

    No funny folders, hidden partitions nor hidden folders or files.

    D: is not empty of course not, the 120GB test drive was empty and newly formatted.

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