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I have a server (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1), which is reporting only 2 GB free space on C drive. But when I run WinDirStat or Treesize over the disk, both of them say that only 21 G is being used out of 40 GB.I have run the Disk Cleanup tool to remove windows update backup files from winsxs folder.I tried running 'vssadmin List Shadows' on a command line, and I got the following result:No items found that satisfy the query.I have made sure that System files are not hidden as well as protected OS files.If I am only using 21 GB out of 40 GB, I should have roughly 19 GB free space. Where is the other 17 GB? What can I do to find what is using it up?
Jul 3, 2017 - In WinDirStat, you can only drill down through the directory list—not graphically. So you can right-click any folder in File Explorer and Windows Explorer. To view a treemap in TreeSize Free, click View Show Treemap.
It might be trashes from users, or System Restore information, or something similar. WinDirStat or TreeSize wont be able to access those directories, at least if you don't run them with elevated privileges. And even then, you can't enter System Volume Information (that contains among others the restore points) because even not the administrator account is able to see it. On older versions of Windows there was a trick (using AT /INTERACTIVE) to run a program as the local system account so it gets access even to those protected locations, but I don't know a way to run an interactive program with such privileges on Windows 2008. One possibility would be to mount the partition (in read-only, just to be sure) from a Linux live CD, as the Linux NTFS drivers ignore all access control, and using the du command to check what takes space.Another reason for what you observe could be that something is storing data on NTFS alternate data streams (see for example ), I don't know whether TreeSize or WinDirStat are able to report data stored this way.
I've had this issue on every Windows 7 and onwards PC I've owned and it's the dreaded 'unknown' space being used that gets bigger and bigger until it becomes noticeable. The issue is this time is it doesn't seem like the easy delete the system restore files option within Computer System System ProtectionHere's the System Protection settings pages plus the command 'VSSAdmin list shadowstorage' run as administrator which confirms no space is being used by shadow copies.Something that is probably worth saying is that I recently moved from a HDD to a SSD by cloning the original HDD. Since then Programs and Features has not been displaying the file sizes of programs correctly with a number of them being exactly 6.51GB and others despite being 20+GB games (Project Cars) showing as having no file size at all!This doesn't match the file sizes that Steam is reporting:Anyone got any ideas on what this could be or a way of locating this unknown space?Thanks. What do I look for in Treesize? I do have it already but it didn't seem to show anything useful from what I could tell.The unknown 54.4 GB I suppose.
If the totals are the same in WinDirStat and TreeSize then that 54GB must be shown somewhere in TreeSize - from your first post perhaps games.You could start with each top level directory (Program Files, Users, Windows etc) in both programs. Then compare the totals and drill down into directories where totals are different (assuming there are any). The unknown 54.4 GB I suppose.
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Add png to pdf. If the totals are the same in WinDirStat and TreeSize then that 54GB must be shown somewhere in TreeSize - from your first post perhaps games.You could start with each top level directory (Program Files, Users, Windows etc) in both programs. Then compare the totals and drill down into directories where totals are different (assuming there are any).Thanks very much.
The issue was with the C:Program FilesWindowsApps folder for some reason. I had lost permissions to it.
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It'd become read only, hidden and unable to be accessed until I added my account as an owner of the folder. After that I was able to have the permissions to access this folder again.Might have been some issue with uninstalling the Forza Horizon 3 demoHere's a before and after on WinDirStat and TreesizeBefore:After.