Windows 10: Need Help Freeing up Space in Local Disk

I just finished clean installing Windows 10 onto my laptop as I was having an issue with my laptop starting up. Every time I would start up the laptop it would say "BOOT DEVICE NOT FOUND HARD DISK 3f0" Well I was advised to clean install Windows 10 and that my laptop should work fine. Lo and behold it actually started up and I was able to use it again. While trying to set it back up and install some apps and other things to personalize it back to how it was, I noticed that My local disk was in the red and only had about 335mb out of 12.8gb . I went in and cleaned up everything that I could think of and the most it would do is free up between 40-55mb, but that's it. I saw that it says the majority of the files is in systems and reserved with about 9bg being systems files that I need for windows to work properly. I know sometimes updates can take up some space, but I didn't think it would take up so much room.

Is there anyway I can fix this? I was so excited to finally get this laptop up and running again as I need it for school. Thanks!





These are the files that are taking up most of the room after reinstalling windows 10. I don't know which ones I could possibly delete or if there are any.



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free disk space error in Windows 10

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HI Joshua,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community and being a part of Windows 10.

I understand your concern about free storage space after performing disk defragmentation and disk clean. Do not worry, we will help you with this issue.

I would like to inform that the disk defragmentation might have taken up hard drive space if there are errors on the drive.

Try the below troubleshooting steps and check if it helps.

Step 1: I suggest you to scan for the shadow storage created on your device as this might be consuming the free storage space.

Follow:

• Log-in as an administrator.
• Press Windows + X keys from the keyboard, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin).
• 
  Accept the UAC (User Account Control) prompt.
  
• 
  Type vssadmin list shadowstorage into the command prompt
  
• 
  The results should tell you the amount of storage used and the maximum amount allotted.
  
• 
  Type vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=[your hard disk]: /On=[your hard disk]: /MaxSize=[how much space you want to allocate]
  
• 
  You should get a message saying successfully resized the shadow copy storage association, and you should have more free space on your hard drive.
  

You may run a scan disk command to remove the bad sectors from the hard drive and then run disk cleanup and check if it works.

Step 2: I suggest you to
Run check disk (chkdsk) and check if it helps.

Chkdsk: The
Chkdsk (Check Disc) scan will try to identify and repair bad sectors found on the hard drive. Any data present on these sectors might be lost in the process. The computer can also go into a no boot state. Proceed at your own risk.

Follow the below steps:

• Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard, click Command Prompt (Admin).
• In the Command Prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
  
  chkdsk /f
• You may be asked whether to schedule this volume to be checked next time when you restarts (Y/N).
  
• Press Y key on the keyboard and press
  Enter key.
• Restart the computer and check.

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue. We will be happy to help you.

 

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