Low Disk Space

Question

Low Disk (F:) Space. My PC is running Windows 10 Home; V. 1803; 64 bit operating system

I am constantly receiving this message:

“Low Disk Space

You are running out of Disk space on Local Disk (F:).

Click here to see if you can free any spaces on this Disk.”

I open “Disk Management” to find that Volume (F:) has:

a Capacity of 450MB

Free Space of 47MB

% Free of 10%

I open “Disk Clean-up/Drive Selection/Drive (F:) and press “OK”

Display shown is “Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?”

I select “Delete Files” and the system runs briefly but no file changes occur.

Consequently, I am getting frustrated by receiving these “Low Disk Space” messages several times a day. How can I clear this up?

Cheers.

Answer 1

Hi Peter, this is a known issue in the 1803 Update,

It is the recovery drive, you are not meant to see it, it is not meant to have a drive letter, remove the drive letter and everything will return to normal:

Click your Start Button, type cmd, then right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'

Run this command and hit Enter

diskpart

Run this command and hit Enter

list volume

Note down the letter associated with that new drive

Run these commands one at a time and hit Enter (replace X with the correct drive letter)

select volume X

remove letter=X

Close Command Prompt and restart your PC

Answer 2

It has been happening with new update that new drive is getting uncovered. You can do following to hide it and there will no harm anywhere.

Type diskpart in Windows Start Search box (Cortana) > Right click on Diskpart and run as Administrator

Give following command and Enter:

select volume f

Give following command and Enter:

remove letter=f

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Answer 3

. In Cortana, type cmd and press Enter. Then right-click Command Prompt in the search results and select Run as administrator.

2. In the Administrator: Command Prompt window, type diskpart and press Enter.
3. Type list volume and press Enter.
4. Make note of the volume number for the drive letter you want to remove. For example, if the drive letter you want to remove is Drive “F”, note the volume number for Drive F.
5. Type the following command, and press Enter.

select volume <volume number>

When typing this command, in place of <volume number>, substitute the volume number you made note of in Step 4. In the example above, if the volume number for drive F is 5, you would type: select volume 5

6. Type the following command and press Enter.

remove letter=<drive letter>

When typing this command, in place of <drive letter>, substitute the drive letter you want to remove. In this example, you would type: remove letter=F

7. Close the Command Prompt window.

Answer 4

This is one of the known issues with the update as Recovery partition should be hidden and is accidentally assigned a drive letter.

Right-click Start>Command Prompt(admin)

Type in the following:

diskpart

list volume

select volume 3

Replace 3 with the number of the volume which is assigned a drive letter. (In hundreds of MBs)

remove letter="G"

Replace G with the Recovery drive letter.

Don't worry, removing a drive letter would not cause any harm to your device.