Windows 10: 100GB space used to install Sea of Thieves

I started installing Sea of Thieves to my new laptop a few days ago, only to find that a massive 100GB of disk space has been taken for a game which lists only 50GB or slightly over, as required for install.


The laptop is for work, however, I fancied testing out the game as a bit of a pastime and to see what my new laptop can do, naturally, out of curiosity.


As the install was taking quite some time, I changed my mind mid-way through and cancelled the installation, only to find that the space reserved for the install had not actually returned to my disk. I thought that perhaps I should finish the installation and properly uninstall the game afterwards. So I restarted the installation, it very quickly returned to its previous progress so I am guessing this is evidence that the installation files remained locally saved and I let the installation finish. At this point, I was 100GB down. I have now uninstalled the game from windows, and I am still 50GB down. There is one single app I personally installed on my laptop, a system clean-up app, storage space requied numbers in KB, minimal.


Also note, the game didn't work when it installed, so no luck trying it out in the end anyway. Insult to injury...


Everything else is stock, along with some HP software. Despite this, my 512GB SSD, with 476GB of usable space, and what should be between 420-430GB of available space this is how much space I had before Sea of Thieves came into the equation, and how much space I remember having available on the laptop from new, allowing for system files is showing at 370GB free space.


Why am I missing 50GB+ of space? In fact, the differential amount is exactly 53 or so GB, the same as the Sea of Thieves install on the Windows Xbox app.


Did the games files go onto my PC twice? I found some other threads on here advising the use of storage sense and deleting temp files. None of these have flagged any cached or temp files of any significance. In fact, system & reserved space is showing at 94.9GB, double the amount it was before I installed the game. Is the game sitting somewhere in the system files?


If anyone is able to help me recover my missing storage space, I would be most grateful. I don't want to have to factory reset the computer over a faulty installation of a single game!


I am not very advanced with computers/windows, there is only so much I can do. Is anyone able to advise?

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sea of thieves

Today I downloaded sea of thieves on my windows 10. I opened sea of thieves and it suddenly closed the game after a split second, I tried multiple times but got nothing, any suggestions?

 

Unable to launch sea of thieves

Hi,

I understand that you are facing issues launching sea of thieves on the PC.
We appreciate your efforts in troubleshooting the issue and providing us the detailed information about the issue.

• Do you receive any error message or code?
  
• Are you aware of any changes made to the computer recently?
  

Meanwhile, you may want to follow the troubleshooting steps mentioned in the article and check if it resolves the issue. Refer to the article
Sea of Thieves is not Launching.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Zaki

 

Sea of Thieves not available?

Hi HideTheHorizon,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community Forums.

Appreciate your efforts to work on this issue.

I can understand the situation must be difficult for you when the Microsoft Store app doesn't work as it should.

• Have you signed in to the same account that was used for purchase?
  

Suggest you to refer to the following information from this article
"To find out what regions you can purchase Sea of Thieves in, and what languages are currently supported refer to the useful articles on the Sea of Thieves".

Sea of Thieves FAQ: Xbox Support

Troubleshoot problems with Xbox Play Anywhere games:
Xbox Support

Hope this helps and let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Srimadhwa B

Microsoft Community-Moderator