Windows 10: Deleted data in safe-mode cmd, now the system doesn't recognize the freed up space

Hello,

I've had an old Windows installation on my former main disk drive, and after 2months of not finding a way on how to delete it to free up my disk space, I finally achieved that today.

I did it by running command prompt by booting up a windows installation USB and have then proceeded to remove all of the remnants of the old windows installation. Now, the size of the data that I've removed using the "rmdir" command is aprox. 100GB, but upon my system booting up, the 100GB have not been freed at all.

What can I do to fix this?

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