Windows 10: Imaginary system files, 215 gb partition in file explorer is 342gb in windows settings

Someone please help my sanity.

So my c: partition shows up in file explorer as having 104 gb of free space out of 215 gb, just as it should, with no ridiculous windows files, everything is fine. however, go into windows 10's storage settigns and it shows my c: partition as having 104 gb free out of 342 gb, with system files taking up 150 gb of that. So somehow windows is not only interpreting my partition as being 127 gb larger than the actual size of the partition itself, but it's computing the free space correctly at the same time?

Functionally this does nothing to me. i can trim a disk whenever i want through disk optimization, i can copy files to and from, no disk space is being eaten up by large windows files. however my ocd is killing me because there's somehow 127 gb of random data that literally doesn't exist, because windows 10 decided to make it up when analayzing my partition for me. The weirdest part is this happens only on the os drive.

Also if this helps, it happened once I added a windows 10 enterprise license key as this is primarily a workstation. And since it functionally doesn't change anything, I'm just going to live with it rather than reinstalling 300 gb+ of software and rewriting all my file paths from programs and file explorer shortcuts that are directed towards the data drives.

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TLDR;

My partition has 23 gb of system files, but windows is incorrectly reporting it in the os storage throught the settings app as 150 gb, whereas on a file system level, ssd block level, and file explorer, it is only 23 gb. Gotta love windows code ffs.

And, please, do not ask me to reinstall windows from scratch. If it was a functional problem then I would, but it isn't. I just want to know why this is happening and if it can be fixed or not, or if it is an inherent problem due to windows 10 code.



Edit: Should this be a help flair or bug flair?

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