Low Disc Space pop up

I've had 2 updates since Low Disc pop up started: Why has this not been removed yet?

Welcome to the forum. Why has what not been removed have you still got low risk space?

cfrank said:

I've had 2 updates since Low Disc pop up started: Why has this not been removed yet?

Maybe because the disk is still low? And what is a Low Disc pop up?

OK, so I may be at the wrong forum. Following an "update" of Windows 10, months ago, some of us started getting a pop up that says we're running low on disc space in D, some say their's is G, or C.. And, of course, it says "click here to fix". The pop up then either disappears, but soon returns, or, sometimes it follows through and shows zero bytes to clean up. In other words, nothing really happens and you don't really have a problem. Then it starts popping up again. Other Forums have posted a multitude of ways to fix it, but so far, they even haven't worked, or they can't be understood by any but high techies. I'm not a Tech. Microsoft supposedly posted that this would be fixed next update. It has not.

cfrank said:

OK, so I may be at the wrong forum. Following an "update" of Windows 10, months ago, some of us started getting a pop up that says we're running low on disc space in D, some say their's is G, or C.....

If it is C: then that's your Windows drive and you do have a space problem. For other letters, what has usually happened is that a Features Update (ie. an upgrade to the next version of W10) has left the (normally hidden) Recovery Partition with a drive letter assigned to it making it visible. The solution is to remove the (unnecessary) drive letter and make it invisible again. Open Disk Management to check if that is the case for you.


If it is the recovery partition that has gained an unwanted drive letter, then you cannot remove it with Disk Management. To do that, use Diskpart, as described here.

Extra Recovery Partition appeared after upgrade Win 10 October - Windows 10 Forums