Windows x'southward Apr 2022 Update (version 1803) brought various new features and removed some others, but also introduced a problems to many systems that caused an extra bulldoze to exist listed under "This PC." Most annoying of all, the bug causes Windows to brandish an error prompt near the drive being virtually full.

"Depression Deejay Space. You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (E:). Click here to run across if you lot can free infinite on this drive." And yet clicking the option to costless up infinite on the drive doesn't really free anything upward, guaranteeing hereafter error messages.

A couple of our Windows PCs at the function experienced the issue. After troubleshooting for a bit, we looked into the solution to remove the drive since Windows Updates so far have not solved it on its own. Here'south how to do information technology.

The "new bulldoze" is actually the Windows recovery sectionalization, which is not meant to exist seen or have a drive letter of the alphabet. Microsoft is enlightened of the problems and has addressed the concern in diverse forum threads on the visitor'south sites. A fix is likely to be introduced in future builds of Windows ten. For now, there are some simple workarounds for anyone with a Windows x installation that has been affected by this consequence and would like to make the recovery drive invisible again.

Delete the New Drive Letter of the alphabet From Windows x Update 1803

Note that the recovery bulldoze can be listed as different messages depending on the devices yous accept installed on your system.

To get started, launch an admin-level Command Prompt (search for "command prompt" via Start and correct click on the software for the choice). From an elevated Command Prompt, there are at least two methods for removing the bulldoze letter.

  • Enter these commands: diskpart > list book > select volume K > remove letter=Thou
    • (G being your bulldoze alphabetic character)
  • Separately, this command also worked for u.s.a.: mountvol G: /d
    • (G being your drive letter, /d being delete)

If you lot'd prefer using a GUI, y'all might as well be able to remove the drive letter from Disk Management, which tin can be launched past right clicking the Start button and choosing Disk Management or entering diskmgmt.msc into a Run prompt (Windows key + R). Once y'all're in Disk Management, right click on the recovery bulldoze > choose "Alter Drive Letter and Paths" > click the "Remove" push button > Say aye to the prompt...

However, some users written report that they were unable to remove the recovery bulldoze's letter from the Windows Management console, and also that sometimes the letter reappears after rebooting Windows, fifty-fifty if the operation is performed from DiskPart in the Command Prompt.

For whatever it's worth, if you have that problem, Microsoft offers instructions on disabling low deejay space warnings for Windows seven, 8 and ten. Launch the Windows Registry Editor (Windows key + R > regedit) and navigate to the post-obit path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

  • In one case at Explorer, right-click in the right pane and choose New > DWORD Value.
  • Name this new DWORD Value NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
  • Double-click on the new DWORD value and assign it a value of 1

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