How to gain more space in windows 10

First of all we must know what are partitions on a hard drive in Windows 10?. It is nothing more than a logical storage unit, which is used to divide a physical hard disk into several parts, as if it were multiple disks. Which allows each partition to use different file systems.

Now, in this case we have three useless partitions on the laptop, when updating your Windows on your computer, it presented four partitions. The question is: Can we make use of this space that seems to be lost? Yes, and we show you.

By following the steps carefully you can achieve a little more space in Windows 10

With none of these partitions is it possible to access Windows, they all seem residual and some of them really are. Others on the contrary are necessary. The Windows update adds more "garbage" and it should be noted that none of them is easy to remove.

It is up to you to take the risk and claim a few gigabytes by deleting some of them, but only if you are absolutely convinced that you can safely remove them.

If you want to see all partitions, click the start button and select Disk Management. If you look at the top half of the window, you will discover that these unwanted and possibly unwanted partitions seem to be empty. And this is where you really know what the wasted space is.

Don't rush, in case Disk Management is giving you wrong data, check all the empty partitions in EASEUS Partition Maestro and you will find that something was stored in all of them. In Anil's case it happened that a 128 MB partition was completely full.

So, let's see what those partitions are:

One of them was created at the time Windows was installed on your machine. This contains the files necessary for Windows to start. On the other hand, this partition can also include some files necessary to reinstall the version of Windows that your PC has. It goes without saying that you should keep this one.

If you've upgraded your Windows 7 / 8.1 to Windows 10, the partition after C: the recovery partition you'll almost certainly need if you decide to reinstall the operating system will keep that one.

After that there may be other partitions, from the installations of other versions of Windows.

At the end of the update, your PC probably has a huge capacity (8-20 GB) and the partition is possibly useless in the end. This was installed by the hardware manufacturer to restore the hard drive or SSD to the factory state. Since they no longer have the Windows version, and their usage license expires 30 days after the Windows 10 update, it is surely an option to delete.

It's safe to delete the partition, and considering its size it's definitely worth it. If you decide to take the risk, create an image backup of the entire drive (all partitions) beforehand with Clonezilla, Acronis or Norton Ghost.

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