Windows 10: A Solution - Free Space OS SSD

IF you have a smallish OS SSD and need/want to increase its free space

and

IF you use OneDrive

and

IF you have another drive available, internal or External, for storage...

The OneDrive folder may account for a big chunk of the Used Space on the SSD. It may, even, be THE biggest item. IF you want to see the size of items on a drive run TreeSizeFree. However, the OneDrive folder can be re-located. The OneDrive folder does not have to reside on C:/.
Ergo, that said, the steps for moving a OneDrive folder are HERE.

Cheers,
Drew


:)

 

Windows 10 reports incorrect remaining SSD space; no solutions have worked.

I am using Windows 10.

Currently, Windows itself is reporting the incorrect remaining free space on my SSD (Samsung EVO 840 120GB). This has been a problem for weeks. I have had no success in resolving the issue.

After updating my SSD firmware, I was briefly able to get File Explorer to report the appropriate 12.4 GB remaining of free space, as you can see from the screenshot below. However, from within the Windows 10 Settings window, you can see that the system
thinks I only have 1.5 GB of space left. This makes absolutely no sense and is factually incorrect. Now, the File Explorer is reporting the 1.5 GB again.

Here is what I have done with no success:

1. Ran chkdsk on C:\ drive; no issues found.
   
2. Ran DISM and SFC; no issues, didn't resolve the problem.
   
3. Checked system protection; it is turned off, there are no excessive system restore points.
   
4. Checked system partitions; there is no missing space needing to be reallocated.
5. Updated SSD firmware.
6. Rank Disk Cleanup I don't even know how many times at this point.
7. Read other support articles and community posts with the same problem; none of their solutions have worked.

I am pretty agitated at this point and running out of thoughts on how to proceed. I can't update my OS because it thinks I don't have 10GB of free space to do so. Any suggestions you might be able to provide are greatly appreciated.

 

Upgrading OS to an SSD

Thanks, I will look into the Samsung SSD instead and set it up as you suggested, that's exactly what I needed.

 

64Gb SSD for OS or 2Tb HDD for storage ?!

I suggest that you get the 2tb for storage. SSDs are only useful if you want to boot things fast like OS and programs. I actually suggest you get both if you have that many movies.