A while back i wrote a post about data deduplication in 2012…. generally a very good feature, but as that specific post talked about, there was a collection of .iso and compressed data where not only did dedup not save me anything, it actually used up more space in the dedup folder than the orginal data size (which i found a little odd) Today i got around to doing something about this and found Disabling data deduplication (via GUI or powershell) only stops further deduplication from occuring – but data that has already been deduplicated will remain deduplicated In order to “move” (re-hydrate ?) the data back to the original files and out of the deduplication store, use the powershell command start-dedupjob -Volume <VolumeLetter> -Type Unoptimization You can check the status on where this is at by using get-dedupjob , or, i like using TreeSize which shows the size on disk of specific files…. including the deduplication chunks At this stage – i noticed the o...