Windows 10: Windows 10 D Drive Huge System and Reserved Space

Hello!System and reserved take so much space on d drive that I don't know what else I can do! I need it now! how do I fix it?

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Not enough space on Recovery (D drive.

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Please help me with the following:

1. What is the make and model number of your Computer?
   

Please note that recovery "D" is a partition on the hard drive which contains the image of the Operating system. You can use it to restore the computer back to factory settings. You should not attempt to store files in it.
If you have any data saved on the D drive, I would suggest you to move it to an external drive and to free up some space, you can follow the steps provided in the article:
Free up drive space in Windows 10.



If you are using a HP computer, then you can refer to this article:
HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - What is the Recovery (D Hard Drive?



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you are running out of disk space on system reserved - Windows 10 -

Hi

My name is Lester and hopefully, this helps answer your question.

System reserve partition should not eat disk space, and should be on the list of drive in this PC.

What drive letter is the System reserve partition? can you check it please?

Press Windows key+ E then click on This PC and look for that drive.

Assuming that drive is letter H: Just follow the steps below:

1. Open CMD as admin or powershell as admin (Press Windows key + X then click on powershell Administrator)

2. type in the following command:

mountvol H: /d

Note: this is only an example replace H: with the right letter of system reserved partition.

I hope this will help.

Lester

Independent Advisor

 

Clearing space in the System Reserved Partition

On MBR disk, Windows 10 requires a 500MB system reserved partition, while 100MB in Windows 7, so you can try to extend system reserved partition.



In disk management, you can only extend partition using the unallocated space next to its right side. so even if you shrink D: drive, the option to extend the efi partition is still grayed out. My suggestion is to use an third party software, AOMEI
Partition Assistant, both the standard (free) or the Professional(paid) version can extend partition as long as there is unallocated space on that hard drive. to see more information read:

Fix "We Couldn’t Update the System Reserved Partition" Error

Windows built-in tools won't allow you to delete system reserved partition. You need to use third party software to make a bootable media, and the boot form the media to delete it.