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So I have the WD 1TB Black HDD. In all I have 931GB of usage. Recently, even with cleaning of it (I use a 119GB SSD primary) I still only have 63.3GB free. Now when I look in it it's puzzling as I've cleared up a lot of games and don't have terribly many things in there. So I did a test. I highlighted everything in my HDD and right clicked properties on it. When I do this it tells me the size is 594GB. This makes much more sense, though now I'm left puzzled as to where the other hidden usage is coming from. Thank you for any who have insight.
 
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Their may be backups or something else but it may be hidden.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7

After doing this re do the size check and see if anything appears.
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Has your computer backed up your SSD onto it automatically?

Go to my computer and double click the HDD and then in that search bar.

Type size:gigantic In the search bar.

The window populates with files larger than 128MB, which is where Microsoft believes the threshold of gigantic to begin.

Sort the list by right-clicking in the window and choosing Sort By—>Size.
 
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First i suggest you will need to fine an app that will scan your file system like Treesize if after scanning you're system you are still unable to find the missing space you could have a a corrupted drive. You can check this by running chkdks and seeing it if reports any errors that need to be repaired.
 
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Well he can see what is taking up most space simply from my answer.
 
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Okay so I did the size:gigantic and I didn't find any backups :/ I do have a Norton Backup Drive and I can see that file in my HDD though it's size is 0 bytes. Even if it was backing up that's only ~100GB which doesn't account for all that space.
 
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I've actually never tried that method but hey if it works that's great. I still suggest though that if that doesn't provide him with the answer it very well could be a corrupted file system. I have seen this happen before where you can scan the file system and it will not tell you what's taking up the space and a chkdsk was the only way to correct the problem.
 
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Their may be backups or something else but it may be hidden.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7

After doing this re do the size check and see if anything appears.
 
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Guys I found it. That 0 byte file had an edit and it brought me to Manage Windows Backup disk space. Over 100GBs..... yea needless to say I cleaned that up. Thanks though!!

--IRyannHD I did what you said and it hadn't found anything abnormal because the backups were considered to be 0 bytes even with hidden files shown.
 
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Oh, well glad you sorted it.

Hope we kinda helped :)
 
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