Windows 10: Reinstalled Windows 10 after Massive BSOD failure and now I only have 90GB on HD, I think...

Device: HP Spectre x360 15t-df100 laptop on Windows 10 64-bit


After a very frustrating 24 hours, my laptop is finally running. I initially got the dreaded BSOD with a kernel data inpage error. My laptop never rebooted again, despite running diagnostics and trying to reset it. No hardware issues found hard drive, memory, power, etc. all passed diagnostics. Finally rebooted from USB and reinstalled Windows.


As if that's not bad enough, now my C: drive only has 90GB. It should have 1TB. Initially I saw a separate locked BitLocker drive in Windows explorer, but now I don't see anything but my tiny C: drive since updates were downloaded. I didn't get a chance to unlock it before it disappeared. I have the key code, I just can't see the drive to try to unlock it.


I'm exhausted, way behind on work now, and I need the space so I can move ahead. Besides, it'd be nice to see if my files are still behind the Wizard's curtain somewhere so I can recover them.


Please, any suggestions?

:)

 

Windows 10 almost 90gb in size?

You can create a live CD using either USB or DVD. Boot up then double click on My Computer and navigate to C drive to delete the folder. The reason I suggest using Linux because if you use Windows Recovery disk or WinPE, you will have the permission problem and won't be able to delete it.

Here's what it looks like in Linux Mint. I just deleted "System Volume Information"








Windows re-created a new folder 20KB in size:

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.

 

Most painless way to reinstall windows 10?

Is there and easy way of reinstalling windows 10 with having to install most of the apps and adjust settings.

I keep getting DistributedCom 10016 error, bsod when gaming or just my gaming crashing,stopping