Windows 10: Clearing up space on drives?

I have two drives and both of them are almost out of space. I keep almost all my programs and everything I use on one of them, so that one is understandably full but I don't know why the other one is or how to clear disk space.

If I go into settings the programs that I can uninstall are few and small, I couldn't clear more than 20 gb (out of 250 gb) if I removed every app that way. I have also used the control panel and used the disk cleanup and cleard up like 5 gb.

What is taking up so much space and how do I get rid of it? Is there another method of cleaning up disk space?

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Accidentally Cancelled An Update - Which files can be removed to clear space

• Right-click start and choose "Run" then type cleanmgr ("cleanup manager") and click OK.
• If asked to choose a drive, pick your C: drive (or wherever Windows is installed).
• In the popup, ignore everything and click the "Clean up system files" button. Don't miss this step.
• Now you can select all the update-related stuff above to clear it out (or clear it all, all of it is safe to remove if you want to free space).

 

Clearing the Backup Drive (F)

Hi,

You can clear up space by deleting the contents of formatting the drive itself. Is it an external drive? If it is and there's no important files saved in the drive that you might need, then you can format the drive to clear up space. To do so, follow the
steps below:

• Plug your hard drive into the computer.
• Type File Explorer on the search bar and hit Enter.
• Open File Explorer and click This PC from the left panel.
• Click on the drive's name, then under Drive Tools, select Manage
  tab on the upper part of the window.
• Click Format. A new prompt will appear.
• Under File system, select FAT32 (Default).
• Put a check on Quick Format option then click
  Start.
• Let the process to be finished then click OK when prompted.

We're just a post away if you need further help.

 

Lost space of Pen Drive

Hello,

Thank you for bringing up your query on Microsoft Community.

We regret the inconvenience caused to you.

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  Have you tried connecting to a different computer?
  

I suggest you to connect the USB flash drive to a different computer and check.

First back up all the data from your USB drive to another location.

I suggest you to connect the USB flash drive to a different computer and check.

Let us try the following steps, and check if it helps.

Step 1: I suggest you to refresh the drive letter and then try to rescan the drives that are connect to the computer and check.

To refresh drive letter:

• Open Computer Management (Local).
• In the console tree, click Computer Management (Local), click
  Storage, and then click Disk Management.
  
• Click Action, and then click Refresh.
  
• Once you have refreshed connect the new zip drive and to update hardware information, click Rescan Disks instead.
  

Step 2: For unallocated space on USB drive

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  Press the Windows key, and type Diskpart.
  
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  Click the result to open the DiskPart command prompt window.
  
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  In the command prompt window, type list disk and hit Enter.
  
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  The removable USB drive or hard disk will be shown under
  Disk 1.
  
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  Type in the following commands and hit Enter.
  

select disk 1

Clean

create partition primary

• 
  The first command selects your removable USB drive.
  
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  The Clean command deletes all the current partitions present on the USB drive.
  
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  The Create primary partition creates a fresh partition and allocates all the unallocated space on this fresh partition.
  
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  Type Exit to close the command prompt window.
  
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  Unplug your USB drive and plug it back again.
  

Hope it helps.

Let us know the status, we are glad to assist you further.