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There is usually (always?) a hidden disk partition that is reserved for the OS. It is well hidden and tools like diskpart are needed to see that it even exists.
by cshokie 4y ago
There is usually (always?) a hidden disk partition that is reserved for the OS. It is well hidden and tools like diskpart are needed to see that it even exists. Presumably that is your problem.
The default size for the reserved partition has seemingly increased over the years so if this device is older and has not clean installed Windows in a long time it might be almost full.
All that said I have no idea if there is a way to prune this partition to make space.
- nanis 4y agoI do have a 809 MB recovery partition (side effect of going from 80 GB HD to 2 TB), but I believe this wants a UEFI partition (which does not exist because this is a BIOS boot only machine). On the other hand, since the recovery partition seems to be unnecessarily large, maybe I can tinker with that. That's an idea.