F drive low disk space notifications

[mchammered]

After a Windows Update, my PC now has an F drive listed. This F drive takes up 450MB on the SSD that houses my C drive. It appears to be the Windows recovery drive.

Right now, I am constantly getting a notification that the new F drive is low on disk space, despite it appearing to be empty. These constant notifications are making my PC unusable. I received two notifications that the F drive was low on disk space while writing this.

I saw from a previous post that removing the F drive letter designation from the partition would resolve this issue. However, when I right-click the F drive in Disk Management, only the help menu appears. I can change the designation of the C drive, but not the F drive that is giving me problems.

https://imgur.com/rSRraOC As you see, I can't remove the drive letter,

Are there any other ways to resolve this? Is re-installing Windows my only option?

 

[gardenman]

Hi, try Option #2 on the following page: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/107032-remove-drive-letter-windows-10-a.html
Particularly, see the screen shot.

 

[mchammered]

It looks like that did that trick!

 

[sweetapplemlp]

I had exactly the same problem, but option #2 did the trick, thanks Gardenman!

 

[tazeps]

Should we really just get rid of it ? It says that's an OEM partition on the storage manager screen. which a google search tells me, is a backup partition in case i want to restore the system.

 

[USAFRet]

Should we really just get rid of it ? It says that's an OEM partition on the storage manager screen. which a google search tells me, is a backup partition in case i want to restore the system.

All you're doing is removing the drive letter.
Not the partition.
https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/153261-fix-windows-10-1803-update-new-full-drive-creation

 

[tazeps]

aha right i get it now! basically unmapping. I didn't read thoroughly thanks