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Ssd shows wrong capacity2/23/2023 ![]() ![]() For this, I selected WinDirStat which is a wonderful tool for visualizing the spaced occupied by files and folders in any drive or folder. I decided to use a third party tool to see where my space was going visually. I ran Disk Cleanup but it was of no use as it didn’t suggest much space could be recovered. This was showing different size from the drive properties. So I decided to dig deeper and enabled the view of all system files and hidden files in C drive, selected all files and opened their properties. ![]() When I opened C drive properties by right clicking the C drive and going to Properties, I saw that the space used was more than what I was expecting. Actually I wanted to shrink the size of my system drive (C drive) because I had moved all my documents including C:Users to D drive so that if something happens to the Operating System, my data remains safe all the time. This problem was weird and I had never encountered such a problem before. This article explains how I fixed this problem. A few days back I encountered a problem when Windows Explorer was showing wrong or incorrect disk space usage in the drive properties. Windows Explorer’s look and feel has remained the same for quite sometime but that changed when the ribbon interface was added to Explorer. Although there are so many alternatives, Windows Explorer remains my favorite Hard Drive browser. ![]()
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