Local Drive E low disk space after Windows 10 April 2018 update

Anonymous
2018-05-01T16:49:34+00:00

My Dell Inspiron 15 laptop updated this morning.  After the update, I now get a popup that local drive E is low on disk space.  This drive was my recovery image drive before the update.  How do I fix this?

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DaveM121 934.5K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2018-05-01T17:01:03+00:00

Hi TG#66,

A lot of users are seeing this new drive, it is the recovery drive, it is not meant to have a drive letter, remove the drive letter and everything will return to normal:

Click your Start Button, type cmd, then right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'

Run this command and hit Enter

diskpart

Run this command and hit Enter

list volume

Note down the letter associated with that new drive

Run these commands one at a time and hit Enter (replace X with the correct drive letter)

select volume X

remove letter=X

Close Command Prompt and restart your PC

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  1. Sumit 44,436 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-05-01T16:53:40+00:00

    This is one of the known issues with the update as Recovery partition should be hidden and is accidentally assigned a drive letter.
    Right-click Start>Command Prompt(admin)
    Type in the following:
    diskpart
    list volume
    select volume X
    Replace X with the number of the volume which is assigned a drive letter. (In hundreds of MBs)
    remove letter="E"

    Don't worry, removing a drive letter would not cause any harm to your device.

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