I'm missing ~300 GB on a External HDD with NTFS 3TB drive, still factory formatted. I've seen this before, it sometimes happens with all NTFS filesystems I've had, does not matter what brand of hard drive it is, (also internal or external). My question is should I delete system volume information folder with a live distro of ubuntu. Because in my experience the only way to fix this problem is to format the drive again. And also, get this, M$ support said kind of the same thing, but did just talk to a low level employee, not a actual technician. If I just delete the contents of the drive normaly or move all the files that I can to some other storage media, the missing space is still seen as missing. I think there are a lot of log files leftover or something, do not know for sure. Restore Points are disabled so no luck there. I'm using windows 10 at the moment.
Any one experience this kind of thing before ?
If anyone need other info or clarification on this problem pls ask, right now I'm going to -- copy -- the files to internal HDDs and delete some of the bloat from sys vol info folder in the hopes that the filesystem will survive on the external drive, but I am hoping for a more elegant solution.
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