Windows 10: SSD/HDD Reduced capacity

If you find your hard drive capacity reduced by an extra large amount try this solution.

I had my ssd of 250gb showing 122gb used less than 2 days after purchasing my pc, but after applying this BAT script. it was down to 44.5 gb......well worth applying.


https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files-winpc/driver-store-file-repository-using-huge-disk-space/f5c78641-ad81-4971-a2b6-47d40d9b9283?page=2

I cleaned 12 GB of driver stuff with this simple .BAT script.

It loops through all numbers from 1-300 and tries to delete the driver. It will just do nothing if the driver is in use, or doesn't exist.

@Echo off
for /L %%A in 1,1,300 do
echo Deleting OEM%%A.INF
pnputil /d OEM%%A.INF
PAUSE



Instructions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aOW-trZTd4

make a restore point just in case
create a file called 'cleandrivers.bat' on your desktop or anywhere else, make sure it's not .bat.txt or something
right click that file, run as administrator
It took less than a minute to process on Windows 10.

So far, everything seems to run normally.

:)

 

Confused about hard drives: HDD and SSD

Browsing through the Microsoft Store for a new pc, I see various hard drives listed, such as:

16GB eMMC

32GB eMMC

500GB 5400 RPM HDD

2GB DDR3L 1600 MHz

32GB SSD [?]

64GB SSD

I understand that solid state drives are good, though expensive. What I don't understand is what size of an SSD would be the equivalent of, say, a terabyte HD? It seems that 64GB is the largest SSD offered here. What size HDD would equal that capacity?

And, BTW, what is an eMMC?

 

Windows using 50gb on ssd (removed windows.old already)

Hi Jeff,

HDD & SSD Manufacturers calculate 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes. As for Microsoft and RAM manufacturers calculate 1GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes with a total difference of about 7% then reduce the capacity by 7% from any HDD or SSD will be your formatted capacity.
The additional space may be reserved for the HDD or SSD to keep itself on high performance.

Looking forward to your response.

 

Upgraded Windows Transfer from HDD to SSD

Hi

My windows was upgraded from 8 to 10 on my laptop few years back. I was trying to get the HDD replaced with SSD. During the copy process, the technician said windows cannot be moved to SSD as it is an upgraded version from 8 to 10.

Kindly guide if there is a possibility to copy the windows to SSD ? If so, please suggest the steps.