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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  3. 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
    2022-10-31T03:34:02+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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    I never hide anything in there.

    I can see everything on the drives that they let me see. 🤣

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