I recently have seen that 25% of my GDrive quota was occupied by something. But my GDrive has in it only 0.7GB. So, who gets the rest of the space.
It turns out that there are files in my Google Drive that are not assigned to a folder. Therefore they are "hidden" from view.
To see these files just click this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=is:unorganized%20owner:me
Review what you want to keep/delete (probably you will delete them all) and get rid of them. Don't forget to empty your trash also.
No my quota shows only 6% occupied.
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Friday, November 3, 2017
Friday, June 11, 2010
Toshiba Qosmio - 10GB hidden partition
I just find out where a good chunk on my free HDD space disappeared.
After purchasing the Toshiba Qosmio laptop, I have seen that only 450GB of 500 are available. Few hours after purchase I discovered that two large hidden partitions were created by Toshiba. One is 1GB large and it seems to be the standard Windows 7 hidden partition - but obviously much larger. The second one is not less than 10.3GB in size! It seems to contain the recovery software (Windows setup, drivers, etc.)
The second partition is safe to delete since the so called "recovery" tool offered by Toshiba is 100% useless because it will format your drive and reinstall Windows instead of actually trying to recover the data for you.
So, no matter what you do, DO NOT use Toshiba's recovery utility if you have and important files on your drive!
Details:
The partitions can bee seen using the Disk Management utility.
Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Managment>Disk Management
Just delete the last partition (not also the first one!) and expand the previous one to fill the free space.
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After purchasing the Toshiba Qosmio laptop, I have seen that only 450GB of 500 are available. Few hours after purchase I discovered that two large hidden partitions were created by Toshiba. One is 1GB large and it seems to be the standard Windows 7 hidden partition - but obviously much larger. The second one is not less than 10.3GB in size! It seems to contain the recovery software (Windows setup, drivers, etc.)
The second partition is safe to delete since the so called "recovery" tool offered by Toshiba is 100% useless because it will format your drive and reinstall Windows instead of actually trying to recover the data for you.
So, no matter what you do, DO NOT use Toshiba's recovery utility if you have and important files on your drive!
Details:
The partitions can bee seen using the Disk Management utility.
Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Managment>Disk Management
Just delete the last partition (not also the first one!) and expand the previous one to fill the free space.
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