Windows 10: C drive suddenly gained more storage

my C drive has been on 10GB free of space for a week or so, now it went up to 16GB. I didnt do anything related to cleaning up space.i only noticed this after my PC goes into Sleep mode for leaving it out too long and turning it back on

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My C Drive suddenly went out of memory and now unable to regain storage

Hello Shubhang Singh,



Welcome to Microsoft Community.



Please click Start menu-- Settings -- System -- Storage, in this page, you can confirm the occupation of "Applications and functions" and "temporary files" at this time, when you click "Show more categories", you can more intuitive confirmation of storage space.

In storage management, you can use the options here to release the space of your C disk (storage awareness, cleaning suggestions, etc.), but I will provide you with a more complete operation process to release disk space:

Free up drive space in Windows

Follow the steps in this link step by step, when done correctly, you can usually successfully free up some space for your C drive.

If anything is unclear, please do not hesitate to let me know.



Best regards,

Mitchell - | Microsoft community support expert from MSFT

 

extend c drive storage space

Hi, I'm , an Independent Advisor.

Disk Management is a Windows built-in tool that supports to increase partition size with its "Extend Volume" feature. However, the program has some limitations in increasing disk space:

- Extend Volume only works on NTFS and RAW partition. FAT32 and other file systems are not supported.

- The Extend Volume will grey out if there is no adjacent unallocated space behind the target partition.

So, the ways to increasing C drive with or without adjacent unallocated space are different. Open the Disk Management, and follow the right tutorials listed below to extend the local disk C drive on your own now:

#1. Increase C Drive Space with Adjacent Unallocated Space

Step 1. Right-click This PC/My Computer, click "Manage", select "Disk Management" under Storage.

Step 2. Locate and right-click on the local disk C drive, and choose "Extend Volume".

Step 3. Set and add more space to your system C drive and click "Next" to continue.

Step 4. Click "Finish" to complete the process.

Note that if that unallocated space on your system disk is not behind the C drive, you can't extend C drive in Disk Management.

Hope this helps. Let me know if I can help you further!

 

Hard Drive Storage

I have a 500Gb Hard Drive, running Windows 10 Pro version 1909. My c drive is nearly full, I have checked every area on the pc and nothing adds up to the 486Gb I'm supposed to have available. I have gone to Settings > System > Storage - it shows that 401Gb
is being taken up by Apps and features but when I click on this and show the list of installed apps with their sizes, I have added up the entire list and it comes to 25Gb total. It doesn't show what's eating up the rest of the 400Gb of space. I have deleted
everything I can and have only been able to free up 11Gb so far so my c drive is still showing red. At this point is the only other step to reload the pc, or does anyone have any suggestions as to what it might be and how to fix?

Thanks,

Heather