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Acronis destroyed my ssd

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I tried to run the disk cleanup tool on a fairly healthy disk in preparation for using Acronis to transfer it  to a larger ssd. It ran for twelve hours before I cancelled it after it stalled on processing so-called free space. Now the disk shows less than 3% free space. The operating system is trashed. Is there any way to recover what is really free space?

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James, welcome to these public User Forums.

What version / build of Acronis True Image were you using, and which particular disk cleanup tool did you use here?

Acronis offers two tools in this area:

Acronis DriveCleanser

Acronis DriveCleanser allows you to permanently destroy all data on selected hard disks and partitions. For the destruction, you can use one of the preset algorithms or create your own.

System Clean-up

The System Clean-up wizard enables you to securely remove all traces of your PC actions, including user names, passwords, and other personal information.

Do you have a full Disk backup of your Windows disk drive created before using the clean up tool?