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Q&A Why does the free space on the system partition is way less than disk space minus space used by all folders/files in Windows 11?

On my work laptop, I have realized that I have a rather low disk space on the system drive. I have run a disk usage application (Run as Admin) to try to understand what is taking so much space and ...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Alexei‭

#1: Initial revision by user avatar Alexei‭ · 2023-11-12T19:28:25Z (12 months ago)
Why does the free space on the system partition is way less than disk space minus space used by all folders/files in Windows 11?
On my work laptop, I have realized that I have a rather low disk space on the system drive. I have run a disk usage application (Run as Admin) to try to understand what is taking so much space and it reports with more than 150 GB less space occupied by all files and folders than reported by Windows.

I have also run Disk Cleanup as an Admin and there are no big files.

How can I find out what is taking the space?