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Thank you Mikiep, Brink and Ronster for your help.

Strangely enough, the system protection was turned off by default for the D: drive, yet the system volume information on that drive contained several GBs of data. This is based on an assumption that system protection and system volume information are related. Or am I missing something here and...

So I ran TreeSize Free and found what WinDirStat hadn't been able to find before. The RECYCLE.BIN on D: drive contained some 30GB (i.e. the windows image backup folder that I'd deleted before), so I right-clicked on the folder and deleted it. It has zero GB now and the unaccounted-for space was...

Thank you for your effort anyway. :-( I might be a little naive, but is there any way I could get somebody from Microsoft to look into what's going on, obviously free of charge via some sort of remote assistance?

Apparently WinDirStat shows nearly the same numbers after I made the hidden files visible. Or should I look elsewhere for the information as to what takes up that extra space? Just as a note, the PC is a few weeks old and has been used sparingly so far, but at any rate it seems to me that the...

Here it is Shawn. Please see the screenshots attached (hope the figures will be visible). There's actually quite some discrepancy in the used space on both C: and D: drive. WinDirStat puts the amount of used space at 36.5GB for C: and 34.2GB for D: drive. According to File Explorer, however, the...

Thanks a lot guys, I'll try that WinDirStat thing as soon as I get back home from work later today.

I've restarted the PC like five times since then, but to no avail. :) Yes, it does show exactly the same numbers via Disk Management, I'm at my wits' end really.

Okay, I'll do my best to explain the things as clearly as possible. :-) Strange as it may sound, I created the WindowsImageBackup folder (of close to 30GB), right-clicked on it and deleted it only to find that the amount of free space on the drive remained the same as before deleting it...

My bad, I should've realized that before. Now, do you have any idea as to why the WindowsImageBackup folder that I've deleted continues to take up space on the drive? How long is the folder kept in the system and where can I change that? The 'File History / Advanced Settings' applies to files...

Thank you for your help Shawn, but I think I fixed it. The problem lay in that I'd moved the "Pictures" from C: (SSD) to D: (HDD) drive yesterday. So what I did now was download and run the appropriate reg file from here User Folders - Restore Default Location - Windows 7 Help Forums This put...

Thank you Shawn for your reply. The second link to "How to create a system image" indeed looks familiar to me, that's most probably what I did just before I created the "WindowsImageBackup" folder. :) At any rate, if you don't mind me asking two questions then - why do I get the „No usable...

Hi @elbmek, Thank you for your reply. This won't probably work for me, because my HDD is inside the PC, rather than in an external dock, so I assume there's no way to turn it on or off.

Dear all, I'm struggling to make the 'file history' feature work. I keep getting the 'No usable drives were found' message along with a recommendation to use an external hard drive. My PC rig has a 240GB SSD (C drive) and a 1TB HDD (D drive) - both internal obviously - but I don't quite...