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EaseUS Partition Master can not only show us all hidden partitions but offers a feature to view the contents of these hidden partitions. That is Explore. With this feature, you can check the following information:. Then, you can see which partition has no drive letter or which is partition.

Under this situation, we can figure out where the missing space is and assign a drive letter or unhide partitions. System protection creates and saves information about your computer's system files and settings, which could take up a lot of space.

Then, disabling system protection is a nice choice to free up space. Step 1. In the Restore Settings, you will see an option asking you to Turn off system protection. Select this option and Apply the changes you made. Unpartitioned space is known as "Unallocated space".

When you see unallocated space, you cannot use this disk until you have created a partition on it. To partition it and restore the hard drive to full capacity, you can do the following things:.

Right-click the unallocated space and select "New Simple Volume" to create a new partition with that space. You can create multiple partitions using this space, just choose the size properly. Alternatively, right-click the partition before the unallocated space and select "Extend Volume" to extend the partition to this space.

If you have a problem with partitioning the unallocated space manually, you can use professional partition software to finish the work easily. On the main window, right-click on the unallocated space on your hard drive or external storage device and select "Create".

Step 2. Adjust the partition size, file system Choose the file system based on your need , label, etc. Step 3. Click on the "Execute Operation" button and create a new partition by clicking "Apply". Hibernate file can also take up lots of space, you can delete them to restore missing space on HDD. Here are the steps to delete hiberfil. Go to Start menu, type cmd and right-click on the results "Command Prompt" and select "Run as administrator".

Cluster size is set when we are formatting a partition. When you employed an unreasonable cluster size, you can format this partition to reset cluster size.

Follow the steps below to format partition with the best HDD format tool. You can change the cluster size during the process. Here, we recommend bytes. Step 4. Click the "Execute Operation" button in the top-left corner to review the changes, then click "Apply" to start formatting the partition on your hard drive. Any one of the solutions could have solved your problem. If you still have questions you can contact the live chat or send an email to us. You can either follow the 6 fixes above or use partition recovery software to recover lost partition.

Your C drive gets full due to various reasons. If you're still experiencing problems, go ahead and run over your computer with a virus scanner and see what it turns up.

I'll continue to search for an answer on this free space problem. Good luck, and sorry again for the late reply! As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts W. Apps and desktop changed to black with white letters 3 Viewers Latest: wildbill2u 11 minutes ago.

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Running old programs in windows 10 Latest: texasbullet Today at AM. Staff online. Cookiegal Administrator. Total: members: 8, guests: This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. You can run Disk Cleanup - built into Windows XP - to erase all but your latest restore point and cleanup even more "loose files"..

When you hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system's memory to the hiberfil. As a result, the size of the hiberfil. If you don't use the hibernate feature and want to recapture the space that Windows uses for the hiberfil.

Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. Click the System Restore tab. Highlight one of your drives or C: if you only have one and click on the "Settings" button. Change the percentage of disk space you wish to allow.. I suggest moving the slider until you have just about 1GB MB or close to that Click OK.. Then Click OK again. It may be MUCH larger right now. If you had a LOT, this could take minutes or more. You can use an application that scans your system for log files and temporary files and use that to get rid of those:.

Ccleaner Free! Those can help you visually discover where all the space is being used.



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