system and reserved folder 550GB win 10

[mohamedrabea87]

I am facing a big problem in my storage I have a hp laptop 1Tb HDD I found that my storage is shrinking so I tried to recover my system but with keeping my files but the same problem I googled for the problem but I couldn't fix the problem I used wizTree software and found that a folder called $extend is 550Gb

I hope someone can help me in it

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Control panel -> Recovery -> Configure System Restore -> Configure. From there you can select how much space on your HDD will be reserved for system recovery backups. Something tells me yours will be around 50% 😀.

 

[mohamedrabea87]

no I found it is only 1% which is 10 GB
http://imgur.com/a5Dt6n5

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Post a screenshot of Disk Management.

 

[mohamedrabea87]

accidentally i clicked on as a solution but it is not solved

here is the shot
http://imgur.com/a/Ol3V6

 

[SuperAdithya]

These are NTFS meta files (See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Metafiles) and its not supposed to hog up more than 50% of the space. Something is seriously wrong in your laptop. Even I have an HP 630 Laptop, which has about 500GB out of 1TB left (not due to unusual things but due to programs, games & other stuff), and the $Extend folder occupies only 3% of the total data.
Go to folder options (search in control panel), then select "Show hidden files, folders & drives" and UNtick the option "Hide protected operating system files", then click YES on the dialog box that shows, then press Apply. Then post a screenshot of your C:\ drive.

 

[mohamedrabea87]

These are NTFS meta files (See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Metafiles) and its not supposed to hog up more than 50% of the space. Something is seriously wrong in your laptop. Even I have an HP 630 Laptop, which has about 500GB out of 1TB left (not due to unusual things but due to programs, games & other stuff), and the $Extend folder occupies only 3% of the total data.
Go to folder options (search in control panel), then select "Show hidden files, folders & drives" and UNtick the option "Hide protected operating system files", then click YES on the dialog box that shows, then press Apply. Then post a screenshot of your C:\ drive.

Dear thank you for your support
here is the screenshot

also here screenshot for the used space if used select all and properties and if I just took properties of the drive C itself

 

[mohamedrabea87]

Any help guys