Windows 10 on C partition is too small to take updates.

[laurence.kay1]

My C drive partition is only 18gb and I cannothink get room to do Microsoft updates.
Can I move it to my E partition which is 500gb in size.

 

[CountMike]

Better resize them.

 

[jaguarskx]

The best thing to do is to resize the C: drive partition. Click the following link for instructions.

https://www.howtogeek.com/101862/how-to-manage-partitions-on-windows-without-downloading-any-other-software/


I recently turned on an aging laptop from 2011 (Lenovo IdeaPad Y470) to allow Windows 10 to apply patches and updates. I think it was last patched / updated back in February this year. The C: drive has a 50GB partition of which only about 28GB was available before updating. After all the updates have been installed, only 18GB of storage was available. Yeah... roughly 10GB of updates were downloaded. After deleting all of the downloaded updates the available capacity went backup to around 26.7GB. So Windows 10 basically uses around 23.3GB of storage; of which about 3GB of that is data in the My Documents folder (saved game files and other personal / non-system files).

To delete all the downloaded update files you need to do the following:

1 - Right click the C: Drive
2 - Click "Disk Cleanup"
3 - Click "Clean up system files"
4 - Click the "Ok" button.

The clean up process took about 2 hours, I guess it thoroughly goes through it's logs and system files to determine what can and cannot be deleted.


An 18GB partition for the C: Drive is tiny. I recommend at least 50GB.

 

[CountMike]

Windows need at least 10GB of free space to function properly.