Windows 10: About Local Disk C Capacity.

Hi!

I have a laptop with Windows 10, which has a 128GB SSD as the system drive. It shows its capacity as 119GB That's ok. But, the total size of drive “C" shows as 100GB. In the “Disk Management Window”, it shows that the SSD has divided into 5 parts and there are three “Recovery partitions 1.06GB, 1.55GB, 14.93GB” have been created. In the "Settings -> System -> Storage menu", it shows that 57GB out of 119GB as the "used space" on "C" drive. including the missed 19GB space.


My question is, why it takes such a big capacity 14.93GB for a “Recovery partition” and what’s the importance of those “recovery partitions”?

Should I maintain 10%-20% of free space in “C” drive yet Or can I use 100% of “C” drive space without making the system unstable?



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Recovering Local Disk

Thank you for your quick response.

It could be a compatibility issue with the latest update and your local disk. We suggest updating your disk driver. Follow these steps:

• On the Start, type Device Manager.
• Locate and select Disk drives.
• Right-click on your disk drive, select Properties.
• Go to the Driver tab and choose Update Driver.
• Once done, click OK.

Update us with the outcome so we can provide further assistance.

 

Extend C drive capacity

Hello Chử,

Disk Management lets you view and manage the disk drives installed in your computer as well as the partitions associated with those drives. In order to sort this out, kindly answer the following questions:

• What did you mean when you wanted to extend C: drive capacity?
• Are you planning to free up disk space?

Be sure to visit this article on
Disk Management for more information like managing disks and managing basic volumes.

Hope this helps and we'll keep an eye out for your reply.

 

Unable to access Local Disks (C, (D, and any programs inside those

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

As you are facing issues with privileges to access the local account, I suggest you to try the below and check if it helps.

• Please be informed us the troubleshooting steps you have already tried.

This issue might be due to some error in system settings.

If you have not yet tried the below steps, I suggest you to perform and check if it helps.

Step 1: I suggest you to log out from the current user account, restart the computer and log-in with the administrator account and check if you are able to access the local drivers.

If the issue still persists,

Step 2: I suggest you to place the computer in safe mode, try to log-in with administrator account and check if the issue persists.

Try the above steps and reply to the post with an updated status of this issue, we will be happy to assist you further.