Check Your Drive Now - This Windows 11 Bug Steals 500GB Of Storage

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A recently-discovered Windows 11 bug is devouring up to 500 GB of storage, but how do you check to see if you're affected and how do you fix it if you are? It can be a rather expensive glitch in this day an dage, after all. Fortunately, both of those questions are easy to answer.

First, open Settings, then Storage. Keep in mind that this bug only impacts the system drive where your operating system is installed, which is assigned to C: by default. Your other storage drives, if present, can be safely ignored when checking for this bug.

Once you're within the Storage menu and checking your C: drive's allocation, you'll want to click the "Show more categories" button to view on how much space your system files are taking up.

What you're looking for is an abnormally-high "System & reserved" allocation—this is fine.

Typically, System &...

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