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Hidden Files

Jan 28, 2015 11:42AM PST

so, i have a capacity of 686 gigs on my hard drive, it says i have 543 gigs used, 142 gigs free. but when i scour the system files i can only actually find 185 gigs or so, i cant seem to find the extra data.
Am i missing something

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You probably need to change settings to show hidden files.
Jan 28, 2015 12:01PM PST

And it would help us help you if you'd read the red text that is shown every time before you post. It says to include details about your system.

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In addition
Jan 28, 2015 1:00PM PST

When you update your specs, revise your description to include "how" you actually scoured your files? Is it 32 or 64 bit?

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sorry, new.
Jan 29, 2015 4:10AM PST

windows 7 64 bit home premium sp1
intel core i3-4160 @ 3.6ghz
hp model ms-7850

by scour i mean opening all the major files in C: and adding up all the largest programs, games, movie/ music/ picture files, everything that looked signifigant. which all added up to about 180 gigs.

i also just highlighted eveything that showed in C: and it only showed 187 gigs.

but my C: properties shows 558 gigs used. 128 free.
iv done the disk cleanup, defragment and error checking, just in case

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Re: disk
Jan 29, 2015 4:29AM PST
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hmm
Jan 29, 2015 11:00AM PST

so i used said link and found...318 gig in a "system volume information" folder, with a bunch of gobledygook like {db4228bb-7e31-11e4-a263-448a5b9bef67}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} in it. that is a single file of 63 gigs, what the hell is it?

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boom got it
Jan 29, 2015 11:14AM PST

it was a bunch of restore points, the system had it set up to use 50% of my hdd for its storage, dropped it down to 5% and im all freed up

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Re: system information folder
Jan 30, 2015 12:24AM PST

Good job. I keep mine a 5 GB or so. When it's more I turn off system restore, turn it on again and make a restore point to start with.

Kees

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There are files that will NOT be added when you use
Jan 29, 2015 4:30AM PST