Windows 10: How can I reclaim lost storage on my laptop after uninstalling Xbox games, as the space...

Hi, I'm having trouble with storage on my laptop. Even though I don't have many apps or files taking up space, my storage is still full. I believe the issue might be related to Xbox games. After uninstalling them through the Xbox app, they appear to be removed, but I don’t seem to be getting the storage back. I’ve checked the Windows App folder and couldn't find much, except for a 75MB file related to Doom Eternal I’m not sure what else to try at this point. Any help on how to reclaim this lost storage would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Reclaiming space on HDD after resetting game

Hello all,

I was playing Halo Infinites new campaign through the Xbox app with a gamepass subscription. My game crashed, and afterwards, I tried rebooting the game to be only greeted by that awful gaming services bug that brings you to the gaming services page in the Microsoft store. I uninstalled and reinstalled the gaming services a few times to no avail. Turns out it was an issue with Halo Infinite itself rather than gaming services as a whole as I could boot up other games no problem.

I went into Win10 Settings > Apps to go and repair Halo Infinite before going to the uninstall and reinstall method. However, I wasn't paying attention and clicked reset instead of repair. Clicking reset made the game just disappear from the drive. I could not see it in the app's list anymore. However, it never reclaimed the approx 70GB of storage space the game took up. I went to the folder location of where Microsoft games/apps are installed to manually delete, and I can see all my games installed via the Xbox app there besides Halo Infinite. Tried restarting my PC and it didn't show my free space go up 70GB. I know I didn't get my space back because I cannot redownload the game due to insufficient space.

Tried going to storage in Settings to see if it was moved to temporary files or something, and nada.

I am not quite sure how to reclaim this 70GB. Any advice or suggestions?

 

How do I reclaim storage space used by a game installed through the Xbox app?

I installed FH5 through the Xbox app and it worked fine for a couple days. However, this morning the game would not start because it said the drive was offline. I tried to Repair the app and it didn't help, so then I Reset the app and now it's missing from the list of installed apps. The game is still taking up disk space and I would like to reclaim that space. I found the game in "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" and I don't have permission to just delete it. How do I get this wasted space back?

 

Unable to reclaim the space i ReFS storage

i used th ReFS storage for Backups, and I deleted backup files to reclaimthe space but ihave reclaim minimal space, how can reclaim the space and why allfoldersi deleted are coming back?