I just copied all the contents from my Sandisk M.2 500gb drive (A:) to a new Kingston M.2 1TB drive (B:).

I didn’t select any system folders like “$RECYCLE.BIN” or “System Volume Information”.

None of the drives have compression option selected from the disk properties.

Eventhough the A: drive has 15GB pagefile.sys dedicated in it; the total used storage says: 429GB

Where as the new drive, newly formatted, formerly empty, no pagefile says that the total used storage is: 453GB

All the hidden system folders are 0 bytes on both drives

How in the world is this possible, what am I missing?

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