Total space used in drive way more than the space used by all my files

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So, I ran a chkdsk on my E: Drive and noticed the used up space has suddenly increased. All the files collectively (including hidden files) occupy only 37.5 GB data but the disk is showing 60 GB used space (only 115GB free in 175GB drive). I thought there are probably some bad sectors in my drive, so I ran chkdsk again and got this:


Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

275968 file records processed.

File verification completed.

Phase duration (File record verification): 1.72 seconds.

10 large file records processed.

Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.00 milliseconds.

0 bad file records processed.

Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.20 milliseconds.



Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

64 reparse records processed.

295968 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.

Phase duration (Index verification): 7.07 seconds.

0 unindexed files scanned.

Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 39.96 milliseconds.

0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 0.67 milliseconds.

64 reparse records processed.

Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 2.71 milliseconds.



Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...

Security descriptor verification completed.

Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 3.34 milliseconds.

10001 data files processed.

Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.27 milliseconds.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...

8875768 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.

Phase duration (USN journal verification): 23.86 milliseconds.



Stage 4: Looking for bad clusters in user file data ...

275952 files processed.

File data verification completed.

Phase duration (User file recovery): 2.31 minutes.



Stage 5: Looking for bad, free clusters ...

30268364 free clusters processed.

Free space verification is complete.

Phase duration (Free space recovery): 0.00 milliseconds.



Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.

No further action is required.



183654399 KB total disk space.

62153028 KB in 264639 files.

71640 KB in 10002 indexes.

0 KB in bad sectors.

356275 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

121073456 KB available on disk.



4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

45913599 total allocation units on disk.

30268364 allocation units available on disk.

Total duration: 2.46 minutes (147902 ms).


It says there are no bad sectors, and no other problems with the file system, but the space is still occupied by.. something?... Is there anyway to free up this space???

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