After the Windows 10 version 1903 update I got with regular intervals a message indicating that there was low storage
on local disk W
. According to a link
on the internet (my case being drive letter W
and not F
) this was caused by the following
That is a System partition that has been mistakenly given a drive letter.
That partition was always there, and it needs to be there.
It just does not need a drive letter F.
The same link pointed to an article with instructions to Remove a drive letter:
- open a
Command Prompt
with administrators rights. In my case the easiest way to do this, is right-clicking onstart
and chosingCommand Prompt (Admin)
- open the partition manager of Windows by typing
'diskpart'
- in this application list the volume (numbers) on your system and their associated drive letters by typing
'list volume'
- select the volume from which you want to remove the drive letter. In my case the number 4 corresponded with drive letter
W
and therefore I typed'select volume=4'
- then I remove the drive letter
W
by typing'remove letter=W'
. - exit the
diskpart
application by typing'exit'
and once again'exit'
No more low storage
messages after this.