Windows 10: Full Drive

Hi there,

I recently tried installing a program on my Pavilion dv7 (Windows 10 Home 64bit), and during the beginning of the installation I got the error "You do not have enough free space to install this program. Please free some space and try again." The drive I normally use, C, has close to 400 gigabytes left.

Before this, I've been getting a lot of notifications everyday saying that my E: drive (HP_TOOLS) is almost full. I feel like they are both connected, however there is a chance that it might be something else.

I have only been getting these notifications after I installed Windows 10, so how can I fix this?

Thanks!

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This drive is full

Two of my drives are full and yet my C drive has room. I also have other drives that are near empty. In W10, how do I change where my files (old and new) are stored? The drive I would prefer to use is a USB drive with lots of room.

I would also like to know if I store files on the USB drive, will I be able to have full access? How do I override the lockout feature?

Thanks,

Terry

 

This drive is full

You cant store system files on a removable drive.

Can we get a screenshot of your disk management console?

 

This is only a guess. Even though you have disc space left, you can still get an error message because of too many files in a drive root directory.
Check the root directories of your drives. I believe the limit is 2,048 files allowed in the root. This can be fixed by moving the files into a folder. Something may be saving files to the root directory.

 

How do I do that?