What is taking up my hard disk space?

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I was thinking of cloning my hard drive and upgrading to an SSD as my hard drive is starting to fail. However when I looked at what was taking up space on my hard drive I noticed that the hidden folder "system volume information" was taking up 184 GB of hard drive space. Is it normal for windows to store that much data there? If I clone the data on this hard drive to an SSD will all of that data be migrated? Is there any way that I can clean up some of the data used by system volume information?

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System volume information is a windows folder that stores "system restore points" information.

Instead of deleting the folder (windows needs one on every drive you attach) do the following to lower the used room

open control panel -> system -> system protection
click on the c: drive and chose "configure"
there should be a disk usage slider in this sub menu which determans how much of your drive windows can use for restore point information
reduce the slider down to 5% or so, should free up a nice chunk of space
reboot the pc, windows will take care of the rest

other things to do to clean up disk space:

in file explorer, right click on the C: drive, chose propperties
in the general tab chose disk cleanup
select clean up system...
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System volume information is a windows folder that stores "system restore points" information.

Instead of deleting the folder (windows needs one on every drive you attach) do the following to lower the used room

open control panel -> system -> system protection
click on the c: drive and chose "configure"
there should be a disk usage slider in this sub menu which determans how much of your drive windows can use for restore point information
reduce the slider down to 5% or so, should free up a nice chunk of space
reboot the pc, windows will take care of the rest

other things to do to clean up disk space:

in file explorer, right click on the C: drive, chose propperties
in the general tab chose disk cleanup
select clean up system files
chose everything that uses up space, and run it
you'll probably need to reboot after you're done

there you go!
 
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Thanks, your solution worked!
 
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