Windows 10: windows old folder space capacity

Hello.I have the following question:From C drive>whith righ clik at windows old folder appears about 41 gb capacity.When i am going to control panel>release space appears for the previous version about 24 GB.....What is the reason for this difference? What is the correct number?

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100 GB of more free space after upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would appreciate if you could answer a few questions to narrow down the issue.

• What is the Hard disk capacity?
• How much free space is left on the hard drive?

If you feel that you are missing some of the files on the PC after the upgrade, I suggest you to look for the missing files in Windows. Old folder.

Windows. Old folder will be located in
This PC > access the drive where Operating System has been installed, there you would be able to locate Windows. Old folder.

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Understanding Storage Spaces capacity descriptions

I have a Storage Spaces array in Windows 10 consisting of 7 SATA HDDs ranging from 3TB -> 8TB each (-edit- for completeness, those drive capacities are: {3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 8}).

I'm trying to understand the Storage Spaces capacity values, shown below:





The section above the drive Name & Letter makes sense in isolation:

• 15 TB
  
  • defined size, with thin provisioning allowing it to exceed actual
    available capacity
    
• Using 14.6 TB pool capacity
  
  • the actual available configured capacity
    

And the 31.8 TB "Total pool capacity" makes complete sense as the sum of the actual disk capacity from each drive.

But...

1. Why is only 14.6 available?
   
   • I've defined my size as 15 TB
     
   • It says I have 17.2 TB available
     
2. What's the relationship here of the 22.5 TB "Including resiliency"?
   
3. What is my actual real max configurable usable capacity?
   
   • I expected to have around 20 TB (66% of 32) - so I'm guessing it's actually only 17.2, but then see question #1
     

 

Storage Space shows low capacity warning

Hello Chaeril,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

Windows created the low disk space warning to alert computer users when their hard drive is running low on available disk space. However in your case, the warning itself shows incorrect while there is still space left.

To be able to assist you better please let us know few more details on the below questions.

1. What is the make and the model of your computer?

2. Is the D: drive which you have shared the information about a secondary drive or a primary drive (Windows drive)?

Before proceeding, please check if the same issue occur when logged in through a different user account.

Ref:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-set-up-accounts

This issue may happen due to system file corruption. I suggest you to run System file checker. System File checker (SFC) scan is done to check if there are any corrupted system files that could be causing this issue. Kindly follow
the below given steps:

• 
  Press Windows key + X, select
  Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt.
  
• 
  In Command prompt type
  sfc/scannow and press enter.
  
• Restart the computer.

If no corrupted system files were found in the previous state, then I suggest you to try the following steps to employ the DISM command lines:

• 
  Open command prompt by pressing Windows key + X and selecting “Command prompt admin”.
  
• 
  In command prompt, type the following commands and press Enter after each command:
  
  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
  
  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
  

• 
  Close the command prompt and restart the PC and check if it works.
  

If the above recommendation did not work, I would suggest you to follow the below steps as a work around to stop the Windows notification of low disk space.

• Press the ‘Windows + R’ key on the keyboard to open the Run Command Dialog Box.
• Type in regedit to open the Registry Editor.
• Navigate down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer
• If the NoLowDiskSpaceChecks key is not there, right-click to create a new DWORD value with that name.
• Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, enter 1 for the value
• Press OK and exit from REGEDIT.

Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore,
make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following
article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756 (How to back up and restore the registry in Windows - Microsoft Support )

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

Hope the above information was helpful. If you need further information, feel free to write to us and we would be happy to help you.

Thank you.