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My PC came with a 1TB SSD only. (old C: drive) I had a 500GB SSD added and made that the new C: drive and made the old 1TB SSD the new D: drive

There are no files on D: drive. Yet 47GB is taken up. Presumably by old system files from it being the previous C: drive?

  1. Do you think that's what is taking up that space? And more importantly
  2. How can I reclaim that space?

Macrium Shows SSD Space taken up on "empty" D: Drive.

Macrium Shows SSD Space taken up on "empty" D: Drive

Trying to figure out what's taking the space

Trying to figure out what's taking the space

What Windows says is taking the space.

What Windows says is taking the space

Giacomo1968
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Hoff
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Found the culprit.

I had done "Create a system image" using Windows 10 Pro. Created a system image of the C: Drive onto this D: drive. I copied that image to my external drive and deleted the image from this D: drive.

However (I'm guessing maybe because they were system-type files) it just didn't really delete it. I deleted it, emptied the trash, and restarted the PC, but it did not clear that space from the D: drive.

But then reformatting the D: drive did clear the space.

Hoff
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