Windows 10: Windows 10 C Storage

Discus and support Windows 10 C Storage in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hello to all. Went to give my desktop a clean out to get rid of some old junk that I don't use any longer. Had a good look at my C drive which is a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by menu, Oct 27, 2016.

  1. menu Win User

    Windows 10 C Storage


    Hello to all.
    Went to give my desktop a clean out to get rid of some old junk that I don't use any longer.
    Had a good look at my C drive which is a SSD it has only the operating system plus programs etc, All other documents photos are on a second internal HDD.
    Now looking at the C drive I noticed that the space left was down to 46GB the size of the SSD is 120GB, Well thought that something was wrong somewhere so dug deeper into the C drive and found a folder containing 25GB and named as GOOGLE DRIVE.*Confused
    I thought that google drive stuff was in the cloud, But where the 25GB has developed I don't know??.Any help on this Please.
    While waiting will be checking up on the google dive on the cloud to see what is there.Thought that 15GB was the limit.
    Many thanks.
    David.*Confused


    PS Just looked into the google drive it shows 17GB ???.

    :)
     
  2. nitin03 Win User

    Windows 10 Reformat + Storage Spaces

    Thank you. My "storage space" does not include my C drive (C drive has windows). Once i reformat, will windows 10 recognize the "storage space" that is made up of other drives?
     
    nitin03, Oct 27, 2016
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  3. nitin03 Win User
    Windows 10 Reformat + Storage Spaces

    I have Windows 10 installed on my C drive. In addition to that, I have a large storage space (pool?) setup with 5 other hard drives (not my C drive). If I use the windows 10 clean/reformat feature to reformat my C drive, will that erase any of my data
    on the storage space or drives?
     
    nitin03, Oct 27, 2016
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  4. AddRAM Win User

    Windows 10 C Storage

    Don`t need it ? Don`t want it ?

    Get rid of it *Smile

    Not sure why it would be taking up space on your drive if it`s supposed to be in the cloud, personally I would not trust the cloud.

    Get started with Google Drive - Drive Help
     
    AddRAM, Oct 27, 2016
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  5. menu Win User
    Thank You do you mean get rid of google drive in the C drive??

    Thanks.
     
  6. AddRAM Win User
    No idea, I don`t use it, but I don`t see why it would take up space on your ssd. Why do you use it if you have a hard drive for storage ?
    3 other things you can do to gain space

    1) Disable hibernation if you don`t use it.
    2) Lower your page file, since you have 8 GB of memory your page file is at least 8 GB, you can lower it to 4 GB
    3) Lower the amount of space used for System Restore or turn it off if you don`t use it
     
    AddRAM, Oct 27, 2016
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  7. kado897 Win User
    kado897, Oct 27, 2016
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  8. menu Win User

    Windows 10 C Storage

    Hi. many thanks both all sorted now thanks to your help once again.
    David.*Thumbs
     
  9. kado897 Win User
    Thanks for letting us know.
     
    kado897, Apr 5, 2018
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