- Oct 12, 2020
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Hi,
I used to use a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO for my OS to boot on but after some hardware upgrades I ended up getting a Sabrent Rocket 4.0 for 1TB.
Today I noticed that the system drive (C
is not 1TB but in fact 129GB used and 102GB free:
After checking with Disk Management, I noticed that I indeed had a 930GB drive that didn't have a drive letter so I added the F:
Disk Management, for some reason has Disk 2 and Disk 0 as separate but the C: partition is actually part of the F: partition.
What's even weirder is that the large Disk 2 is 446GB used and 483GB free and after digging in the files a bit (which at fist seem identical), I find that my entire Steam Library of games is installed in the previously invisible Disk 2 that I just now labelled as F:
It has been a while since I have run a Steam game other than DotA and am unsure what would have happened had I tried before labelling the "invisible" large partition but this is confusing.
Everything seems to work fine, free storage space seems to reflect the real amount I would have available but I'm just trying to understand how this could have happened, why did the 930GB be a separate disk from the Windows drive and where did the random 231GB Disk 0 spring up from all of the sudden?
I suspect it may have to do with the Windows migration to the new drive, since I did not reinstall a fresh copy on the new drive, I just used a migration tool to quickly transfer OS from the old Samsung SSD to the new NVME drive.
If anyone has any idea what I can do to get the drive to stop having split personality disorder, I would be very grateful.
I used to use a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO for my OS to boot on but after some hardware upgrades I ended up getting a Sabrent Rocket 4.0 for 1TB.
Today I noticed that the system drive (C
is not 1TB but in fact 129GB used and 102GB free:After checking with Disk Management, I noticed that I indeed had a 930GB drive that didn't have a drive letter so I added the F:
Disk Management, for some reason has Disk 2 and Disk 0 as separate but the C: partition is actually part of the F: partition.
What's even weirder is that the large Disk 2 is 446GB used and 483GB free and after digging in the files a bit (which at fist seem identical), I find that my entire Steam Library of games is installed in the previously invisible Disk 2 that I just now labelled as F:
It has been a while since I have run a Steam game other than DotA and am unsure what would have happened had I tried before labelling the "invisible" large partition but this is confusing.
Everything seems to work fine, free storage space seems to reflect the real amount I would have available but I'm just trying to understand how this could have happened, why did the 930GB be a separate disk from the Windows drive and where did the random 231GB Disk 0 spring up from all of the sudden?
I suspect it may have to do with the Windows migration to the new drive, since I did not reinstall a fresh copy on the new drive, I just used a migration tool to quickly transfer OS from the old Samsung SSD to the new NVME drive.
If anyone has any idea what I can do to get the drive to stop having split personality disorder, I would be very grateful.
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