System Volume Information devours 71 GB of space (on a 100 GB partition)

In order to cut short this problem:

-System Restore is DISABLED.

-J' tried to use vssadmin, but it does not, for example: vssadmin resize shadowstorage / on = C: / for = C: / MaxSize = 1 GB

-J' have tried to use disk cleanup, but even once, it does not work.

And always the System Volume Information devours 71 GB. I can't delete the files it contains, I can't change the permissions. Then what should I do to get rid of this pig space?

This answer makes no sense.

But it seems that Windows has decided to delete the bad eating space now for no reason, so I think it's time to close this issue. At this point, I have absolutely no idea why it happened, or how it was fixed.

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