there's some hard disk space missing

[bigdan]

I have a 1.5 TB external drive. It shows 300 GB free.

If I select all the folders in the E drive, rather than selecting the drive itself, I see only 464 GB occupied.

Now I did this some months ago, with similar results. After that I was advised to use WinDirStat. That made me realize the lost space is due to my backups. I'm running it now and I dont see any indication of that, but since I saw it in the past I'll assume that's still the case.

When I go to Manage Windows Backup Disk Space, over there it shows how much space is being used by backups.

Data File Backup - 86 GB
Sys Image - 548 GB
Other Files - 467 GB
Free Space - 295 GB
Total Size - 1.36 TB

When I go to Data File Backups it shows the backup I have, from 5/25 - 10/18 is 86 GB. There's only one there.

So it seems like the previous backup got hidden somehow? Not sure. Either way I'd like to erase it. I'm OK if I lose all backups and I can just backup again.

I've been stuck on this for months. I'd be very grateful for any help.

Thanks
Dan

 

[S0ULphIRE]

In the same area (the Manage Windows Backup Disk Space) you should be able to select and delete backups that you don't want/need. Just delete them all if you don't need them, then reboot and check your drive space again.

 

[1etherer]

Also, use treesize to see in which folders most your data is being used, its much better at finding data than searching file explorer.

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

 

[PP Mguire]

He already used Windirstat to do that.

 

[1etherer]

He already used Windirstat to do that.

He said its not showing its location in the folders.. treesize may work better