Windows 10: Losing storage space in Window 11 or false display?

Hello,For some unknown reason, my laptop ASUS keeps losing 1GB in storage space on my C Drive whenever I turn it back on or restart it. It has been happening for the last two days and I was afraid that I would run out of free space soon. However, to make this situation even more confusing, I already have a problem with this losing storage problem a few weeks ago where my C Drive go from over 60GB to only 45GB or so after several days. I have deleted several unwanted files in both temporary and other folders that I don't need which by my count should free me up to 20GB or so but the C Drive sti

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Manage Storage Spaces does not appear to work

Hi,

My name is Mohammed Shuaib, an Independent Advisor and I'm here to assist you with the issue of managing storage spaces. Please follow the below to reset the new 5x10TB drives and then create the storage pool.

Step 1:

Go to search box next to windows icon and type Windows Powershell

Step 2:

Right-click on Windows PowerShell ISE & then select Run As Administrator

Step 3:

Type "Get-PhysicalDisk" then makes a note that there's a property called "CanPool". Under which it should be True or False for the drives you want to make a storage pool out of (in your case for 5x10TB drives). If its false then follow the below steps to make
it true.

Step 4:

Type "Get-PhysicalDisk | Select FriendlyName, UniqueId" to view the UniqueIds of the 10 TB drives you to want to reset. Note that these UniqueIds can take many different forms (strings, guids with or without brackets, hex), so be sure to copy the full string
(including any dashes or brackets) for this next part.

Step 5:

Finally, execute "Reset-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId (value from the previous step). Execute the for all 5x10TB drives one by one. This clears/resets any metadata related to Storage Spaces. It's not clear from the documentation for this cmdlet whether it deletes
any data on the drive if the disk is not already part of storage space (if it is, it does, so be careful).

Step 6:

Now type "Get-PhysicalDisk", hopefully, that "CanPool" value that was false before is now true. After this, you should be able to proceed in creating a storage space with these drives.

Let me know the status after performing the above.

Regards

Shuaib

Independent Advisor

 

Windows Manage Storage Spaces

Dear Windows Team,

Are there any list of drives which are supported to use manage storage spaces.

As I have 10x 5TB WD My Passport Drive all drives shows error while creating for pool like the listed drive doesn't support the pool option.

Then which drives should I use?

Any suggestions!!!

BR
ISJ

 

Can't Free Up Storage OnHP Stream 11 Running Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

As you are unable to delete the temporary files and free up the storage space on Windows 10 Operating System, try the below and check if it helps.

Step 1: I suggest you to refer to the below Microsoft article about:
Free up drive space in Windows 10

Step 2: I suggest you to check the storage capacity of each of the drives in
Windows Explorer.

• Press Windows key, type This PC, select it.
• Right click on each of the drives and click on Properties.
• Also, you can perform Disk Cleanup from the
  Step 2 as well.
• Select the files to be delete on each of the drives.

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue, we will be happy to assist you further.