Windows 10: How can I remove allocated space from SSD?

I cancelled a download/installation, but it's still allocating space. For context, it's PoE.


Does anyone know how I can remove it?





The yellow is what I assume is the allocated space. There's no option to open file location since it doesn't exist so I can't really delete it. Can anyone help?

:)

 

Reclaim Un-allocated Space (Formally System Reserved)

Hello,

I previously had run low on disk space on my Operating System Drive (SSD 250GB), my operating system (Windows 7) created a system reserved space (100MB) and placed the boot files there, this creates a warning on log in that a temporary paging file has been
created.

I have now cloned this drive to a new 1TB Corsair SSD (Including the system reserved partition) with Active Boot Disk software. I have reclaimed un-allocated space on the new drive which was not identified during the cloning process. As the boot files were
being stored on the system reserved partition, I conducted a "boot fix" on my Windows 7 Disc. This placed my boot files into the main partition and then I proceeded to make the main partition active and deleted the system reserved partition (now un-allocated).

Windows now boots from the main partition as intended,

However in Disk Manager, an un-allocated space created by the system reserved function exists and the Temporary Paging File Warning still appears on start-up, even though the new SSD has 800+GB of free space and the main partition is the
boot partition. Also, the left most partition is the 100MB un-allocated space that I wish to reclaim but the option to extend the main partition is greyed out in and not available in active boot disk software and disk manager. I have tried to make the disk
"dynamic" but it warns me there is not enough "space" on either partition to do so, which is simply not true.

TLR

I want to:

1. Merge the left most 100MB un-allocated partition (previously system reserved) with the main 800+GB partition
2. Remove the temp paging file alert on start up

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Wade.

 

How much space to allocate for Windows 10

I have a 1TB HDD. I am going to split it into 2 partitions and install Windows on the small one. Since I don’t have an SSD, how much space should I allocate to the Windows partition so it can run perfecly fine without space limitations? It says that Windows
10 requires at least 9.5 GB allocated to it but allocating the bare minimum on it seems slow so I was thinking like 20GB should be fine until I saw someone on the internet saying 200GB. Please help me clarify how much should be okay. The reason I’m splitting
them is that if my Windows gets corrupt (again) I can get my personal data back.

 

Cannot extend un-allocated space


If I may make a suggestion, when you receive software updates for all your 3rd party programs start saving the installers, and get ahold of any drivers from your OEM and save them to an external device, and think about a clean install and during install, destroy all partitions, then let Windows, set everything up as it needs. It should look like this then:



***Note the unallocated is for my SSD for Garbage collection.***