Hello,
I noticed an virtual drive in Disk Management called "PortableBaseLayer" that appeared ever since I have enabled Windows Sandbox. It takes up 8 GB.
However, this virtual drive does not go away after disabling Sandbox and still takes up 8 GB. I am using Windows 1909.
Anyone else experiencing this? How do I solve this?
The tutorial
Enable or Disable Windows Sandbox in Windows 10
says:
- which is clearly not happening... and you're not the only one to have experienced this.When Windows Sandbox is enabled a read-only 8 GB PortableBaseLayer system partition without a drive letter is automatically created and should not be deleted. The PortableBaseLayer partition is automatically removed when Windows Sandbox is disabled.
This may give some clues-- not straightforward.
Is it safe to delete baselayer and sandbox from Containers Folder
I have indeed read that thread. But I'm not sure if deleting the container files themselves would be safe enough.
I am surprised there is no option at all to reclaim the 8GB after Sandbox has been disabled.
I did notice I can detach the virtual drive in Disk managment. Is this safe enough and will I be able to delete the volume after?
It's not. I broke my system by doing that on its own, as I said in that thread. I also posted a link in that thread to details of the Registry keys that also need deleting.
What is this large folder? - post #43
Hmm..
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...3-9a3c913396a6
(March 2020)I would like to confirm if you would really want to remove this gracefully? .. if you wish to proceed, then let's do an in-place upgrade as that's the only known solution (at this stage) to gracefully remove the PortableBaseLayer Partition.
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