Disk Extension
Use partition manager or disk part to extend volumes.
If drive space in partition manager and file explorer do not match after volume extension use the following diskpart command:
- Diskpart
- list volume
- select volume <volume number>
- extend filesystem
- select volume <volume number>
- list volume
Drive Space Cleanup Windows
Check temp folders
Check if windows update needs to be running and delete software distribution if not
Check for not required windows SxS components using DISM.exe in Powershell:
- Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
Check for log files and delete any not required
Disk Info
Find out info about disks - use "system information" - msinfo32
This will give you the Bytes/sector as well as other info
Check for drive issues
use the following commands to check for drive issues:
Get-PSDrive -Provider FileSystem
net use
[System.IO.DriveInfo]::GetDrives()
Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk
Unmount Ghost drive
If you need to get rid of a ghost drive that is not able to be removed by other means you can manually unmount the drive:
mountvol <Drive letter> /D
#example
mountvol F:\ /D
To remove all drive letter assignments for which there is no mounted drive use the /R option:
mountvol/R