After installing the Windows 10 April 2018 Update the OS started to warn me about low disk space on Disk M. This partition (I have assigned a letter to it because I am curious) is where (I think) the recovery files of Win10 are kept. Jun 12, 2018 Shows you how to fix a problem after a Windows 10 update which causes a Recovery drive to appear in explorer and a low disk message to appear. Windows 10 Low Disk Space and Recovery Drive.
Hey F15C-Eagle,
This is a recovery partition brought into view in 1803. You cannot remove, but only you must remove its mapping of its respective drive letter, which is D. Once you do this, it brings it back to its intended visibility, being hidden and out of sight. Once you do this, you won't be pestered with low disk space notifications anymore. You will need to remove the drive letter and mount point in DiskPart in order to do this.
Hit Windows key + R together to go into Run. Type in the following: diskpart
Enter the following in the new DiskPart window:
select volume D
remove letter=D
Does not work after a reboot? Try entering this instead in an administrator session of Command Prompt: mountvol D: /D
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8gj...
Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.
I hope this helps. Please do let me know if this fixes it, and good luck.
This is a recovery partition brought into view in 1803. You cannot remove, but only you must remove its mapping of its respective drive letter, which is D. Once you do this, it brings it back to its intended visibility, being hidden and out of sight. Once you do this, you won't be pestered with low disk space notifications anymore. You will need to remove the drive letter and mount point in DiskPart in order to do this.
Hit Windows key + R together to go into Run. Type in the following: diskpart
Enter the following in the new DiskPart window:
select volume D
remove letter=D
Does not work after a reboot? Try entering this instead in an administrator session of Command Prompt: mountvol D: /D
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8gj...
Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.
I hope this helps. Please do let me know if this fixes it, and good luck.
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After installing the Windows 10 April 2018 Update the OS started to warn me about low disk space on Disk M:. This partition (I have assigned a letter to it because I am curious) is where (I think) the recovery files of Win10 are kept.
Of course this logical disk has been created from the previous installations of Win10 and now I am afraid that a future update will fail if more space is required to host a recovery copy.
I would ask the community about which are my options here:
- Forget it because the updates are smart enough to fix the problem?
- Do we have some tools that could help me resize in a non destructive way the partition sizes?
- Can I dig into this Recovery folder and cut away some excess and freemore space?
SteveSteve
2 Answers
Dell Recovery D
Removing the assigned drive letter will stop these warnings.
They are only appearing because you gave the drive a letter and you really don't need to care what is on a 500MB partition on a 1TB disk.
In the same way you added a drive letter to it you can remove the drive letter. Just right click the drive in the disk management console, and in the 'assign drive letter' dialog you simply remove the letter assigned to it. You don't need to care about what's on that drive, you are giving (some of the crappiest) malware access to critical system recovery files and quite frankly seeing that drive is a waste of a perfectly good drive letter.
Chances are that the data on that partition is minor, only used when doing a system restore and given the size of it is not even a full system image. It is probably just a couple of drivers that Windows will ignore as a latest copy will have newer versions.
The data on it probably 'increased' because you gave it a drive letter and during installation of something Windows created a restore point and used the space.
You don't need to know what is on that disk, Windows probably will never use it again, and it's too small to care about recovering.
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Removing a drive letter or just deleting something called the 'Recovery Partition' does not seem like the reasonable answer. When you install Windows 10 as a fresh install on a clean or formatted hard drive, it creates four partitions. One of those is a Recovery Partition, and it is necessary.
What if you DO need to work from the recovery environment?
What if Microsoft issues a fix?
If the partition is hidden, renamed, deleted or otherwise, then how is the patch going to be able to be applied?
I have used diskpart but to no avail. to actually see what has been placed onto this partition.
mic84What if you DO need to work from the recovery environment?
What if Microsoft issues a fix?
If the partition is hidden, renamed, deleted or otherwise, then how is the patch going to be able to be applied?
I have used diskpart but to no avail. to actually see what has been placed onto this partition.
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