[Mr. Vega]

Can someone please explain to me how when I click on my hard drive's properties it says I have 1.16TB used space but when I select every folder (including hidden) in C:/ and click properties it says I have 742GB used? That's a pretty ****ing big discrepancy. And I don't have another partition on there.

[Hellzed]

[Disregard this, i misread.]


Which version of Windows is this ?

[Mr. Vega]

7.

[Hellzed]

I don't have a Windows 7 pc at home, but it may be used by built-in "system restore".
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5482/make-system-restore-use-less-space-in-windows-7/

[Shivan Hunter]

I've found that WinDirStat can be helpful here too.

[Mr. Vega]

WinDirStat gives the same ~765GB total. Is Windows completely miscounting when asked to look at the disk itself?

[Ghostavo]

Could you have an abnormally large paging and hibernation file in the system root?

[Herra Tohtori]

Recycle bin, hidden system directories, large pagefile on system partition, shadow copy?

[Mr. Vega]

Ugh. I'm a moron. I thought sys restore was only using 121 mb, but I didn't realize I was looking at the wrong directory instead of C:/. I have sys restore set to use up to 50% of C:/. Right now it alone takes up 400GB. Thank you for indulging a moron.

Edit- and there it is. Cut it down to 15%. Problem solved.