Windows 10: Reclaiming the space on a Hard Drive

Discus and support Reclaiming the space on a Hard Drive in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; My desktop PC is new. It came with a SSD with Windows 10 pre-installed. It is partitioned as follows: _ System Reserved 50MB NTFS C:... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by David P. Vancouver, Mar 19, 2021.

  1. DAVID P. VANCOUVER
    David P. Vancouver Win User

    Reclaiming the space on a Hard Drive


    My desktop PC is new. It came with a SSD with Windows 10 pre-installed. It is partitioned as follows:
    _ System Reserved 50MB NTFS
    C: 476.40 GB NTFS
    _ 499 MB Healthy Recovery Partition
    The Windows installation is fine.

    Next I added a 4TB HDD, to use for data. It seems I mis-configured the drives, because when I turned on the PC, it treated the blank HDD as a system drive and launched into a Windows 10 installation that I couldn't stop. I fixed the configuration problem so now the PC once again boots from the SSD C: drive Disk 0 and the HDD is now Disk 1. Now the HDD is partitioned as follows:
    _ System Reserved 549 MB NTFS
    E: 352.15 GB NTFS
    F: 1695.31 GB NTFS
    _ 1678.02 GB Unallocated

    That leaves me with two problems:
    1. The E partition contains 37.5 GB of Windows files that I don't want
    2. I can't use the Unallocated space at all. Disk Manager will not allow me to shrink, expand, format, or name it, make it a new volume or do anything at all. Every possible action is greyed out.

    So how to proceed?
    A. Can I just delete all the files in E:? Will Windows continue to treat E: as a system drive? Does that matter?
    B. How can I gain access to the unallocated partition?

    If necessary, I will wipe the entire HDD and start over. But I don't see a way to do that in Disk Manager. I could delete all 3 volumes, but I don't see how that will give me access to the unallocated partition.


    Suggestions?

    :)
     
    David P. Vancouver, Mar 19, 2021
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  2. WALTBENN
    WaltBenn Win User

    How can I reclaim hard drive space filled by windows 10

    Hard drive on my Acer Laptop is near full of windows 10 files/folder, etc. How can I remove unneeded files to reclaim hard disk space? Why doesn't Windows or Microsoft help with this? I don't see any good reason for Windows10 filling my hard drive.
     
    WaltBenn, Mar 19, 2021
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  3. SALMOSCATO
    SalMoscato Win User
    reclaiming "plotted" hard drive apace

    I plotted part of my C drive to use for cryptocurrency mining, but the program wouldn't work. I deleted the program, but now a large chunk of hard drive space is unusable. How can I reclaim it?

    ***Moved from Windows / Gaming on Windows 10***
     
    SalMoscato, Mar 19, 2021
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  4. VENTANASGUY
    ventanasguy Win User

    Reclaiming the space on a Hard Drive

    Reclaim space on hdd


    I need to reclaim some space on the hard drive that my Windows 10 is installed on this pc.

    There is a Windows.old.000 folder (13.2 GB)

    and a

    Windows.old folder (9.09 GB).

    Can I still use Disk Cleanup with Windows 10 to do this, and is it ok to do it?
     
    ventanasguy, Mar 19, 2021
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