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. Anonymous
    2018-06-03T18:24:28+00:00

    It is just a recovery drive. It is not meant to have a letter or be used for anything else

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-03T15:35:21+00:00

    What happens to the 458MB that was used by the E drive. I have a SSD and want to utilize every byte possible.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-03T15:27:03+00:00

    So what happens to the 458MB of disk space that was used by the "E" drive? I know it is not much, but since I have a limited SSD, I don't want to lose any disk space.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-02T19:22:24+00:00

    What does it say after list volume ?

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