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File deletion with skipping Recycle Bin didn't free up disk space, but did increase $BadClus

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System: Windows 11, externally mounted 8TB WD disk NTFSUsed TreeSize Duplicate Search (Jam Software), then deleted some files with the option "Move to Recycle Bin (if available)" turned off (one file was almost 1TB), but I didn't get the disk space back (recycle bin is empty). Total drive size is 7,27TB, but there's only files for 5,4TB.Then used TreeSize with "Track advanced file system features" option and I can see metafile $BadClus being 2,5TB which would account for the missing space.Then did chkdsk /x /b to see if chkdsk could find/fix bad clusters, but it found 0KB in bad sectors. WD Da

 

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