New small local disk showing after windows 10 update may 2018

[scar999]

Just updated windows and now i keep getting notifications saying "local disk i almost full". This local disk was not there before the update and has 45meg free out of 450 meg.

Found the same issue twice but no answer what to do, as the pop up happens every 15mins or so saying almost full...

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3704550/update-added-local-disk.html
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3702748/local-disk-appeared.html

 

[USAFRet]

Disk Management, and just remove the drive letter.
Not the partition.

 

[soul1985]

The Disk Management doesn't let you change drive letters of system partions.

Follow this guide - was working perfect for me (had the same problem since some days):

run diskpart.
In that program type in list vol; not the volume number for the volume with the letter you want to get rid of (it'll probably be 0 or 1).
type in sel vol # where # is the number you noted.
type in remove letter=[letter] where [letter] is the drive letter of the reserved volume.
use exit to exit the program

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So a typical sequence might be:

diskpart
list vol
sel vol 0
remove letter=f
exit

 

[kerrbearrxo]

Hi mate, I also had the same issue after installing the new Windows 10 update. I had a random F drive on my PC which was showing as red (almost full) and constantly kept getting notifications regarding it. This is because for some reason it's a partition that SHOULD NOT have a letter associated with it. So because mine was associated with the letter F it was reading it like an active drive.

Please follow below instructions to fix your issue:

Right click on the start menu and select command prompt in admin
Then type in the following
diskpart
press enter
list volume
press enter
select volume x (x = the volume of the drive which windows has added to your PC this will normally be volume 1 or 2)
press enter
remove letter=F (F = the name windows gave to your drive, for example it gave me a drive F)
press enter
exit

this should fix your issue