Note: If you delete any files, remember to empty the Recycle Bin to completely remove them from your device and free up space. To move photos, music, videos, or other files that you want to keep but don't use very often, consider saving them to an external storage device like a USB drive or an SD card. You'll still be able to use them when the drive is connected, but they won't take up space on your PC.
Select File Explorer from the taskbar and go to the folder that contains the files you want to move. Select the files, then select Cut on the ribbon. Navigate to the location of the external storage device you connected, then select Paste. Instead of saving all your new files to the default drive, you can save some of them to a different drive that has more free space. Open Storage settings. For each content type, select a drive from the drop-down menu.
If the drive you want to use isn't listed there, make sure it's connected to your PC. You can save space by turning on OneDrive Files On-Demand, which stores a smaller placeholder file on your hard drive instead of the full-size file that's stored in your OneDrive account in the cloud.
You'll be able to get to your OneDrive files from your PC without having to use up hard-drive space downloading full-size versions of them all. Sometimes a virus or other malware can consume significant hard-drive space by corrupting your system files.
If you suspect your PC is infected with malware, use an antivirus program like Windows Defender to run a virus scan and cleanup. If this doesn't fix the problem, you might need to reset your PC. This is also recommended if your attempts to free up drive space trigger particular error codes that you need help resolving. The following questions concern low disk space and Windows Update specifically.
Learn more about Windows Update. When you select Fix issues , you'll be informed about how much additional space is needed.
Learn how to free up space to install Windows updates. The total free disk space your device requires to complete an update varies. Learn about the difference between a feature update and a quality update. You need disk space to download the update, download new versions of any optional features and languages that are currently installed, and to apply the update. Additional space is temporarily required to support removal of the update typically for 10 days.
This space can be reclaimed after the update is completed. Note: For devices with reserved storage, an update will first use the reserved storage space before using other disk space. For more info, see How reserved storage works in Windows. The space required to complete a feature update depends on two factors: which update path is followed and the size of optional content and other updates that apply to your PC when the feature update is installed.
Windows follows three different feature update paths, depending on the amount of disk space currently available. Windows automatically tries to complete more of the update process in the background while you use your PC. This significantly reduces the time your PC will be offline or unusable during the update, although it might temporarily use more disk space to complete the update. Learn more about our efforts to reduce offline time during updates English only at this time.
For PCs with limited free space but still enough to complete the update automatically. Windows will automatically optimize for reducing the amount of free disk space required to install the update. This will result in a longer offline install time. For PCs that don't have enough space to automatically install the update. Windows will prompt you to free up disk space or use external storage to temporarily extend the storage on your PC.
Across each of these update paths, the total amount of free disk space required will vary, depending on the optional content installed and other updates that apply to your PC. For example:. Optional features.
Many optional features available for Windows are pre-installed or acquired on demand by the system, or manually by you. Languages installed. Windows is localized into many languages. Although many people only use one language at a time, some people switch between two or more languages.
Open Language settings During each update, all language resources and any associated typing, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and handwriting recognition resources must be updated. The content for each language can range from about MB to more than MB. Driver updates. Typically, cleaning up the Recycle Bin and Downloads is a good place to start.
To free up more space, if needed, clean up files you don't need from Large or unused files , Files synced to the cloud , and Unused apps. If you still see Windows needs space to update , repeat the process or consider deleting unneeded files from other folders. Alternatively, consider moving some files to external storage if you haven't already. Free up drive space in Windows.
Get the latest Windows update. Windows 10 updates provide the latest features and security improvements to help keep your PC more current and more secure. We can't install the latest Windows 10 features and security improvements on your PC due to low disk space. From the Windows update page, select Fix issues. This launches the Windows update tool that lets you update your PC using an external storage device. Note: if you don't know how to find your Recycle Bin or your Downloads, search for them in the search box on your taskbar.
If you still need more space, Open your Storage Use. Windows 11 Windows 10 More Windows needs space to update We can't install the latest Windows 11 features and security improvements on your PC due to low disk space.
Get more space with external storage You can temporarily gain extra space by using an external storage device like a USB drive, an SD card, or an external hard drive. An internet connection.
Connect your external storage device and select it from the drop-down menu. Once the installation is complete, you can safely remove your external storage device. Choose C drive to clean, select files to delete, and click "OK". If your computer is still running out of space for installing the latest Windows 10 update through the two ways above, you can use EaseUS Partition Master to help you expand C drive without formatting.
Click the Adjust button to extend it. When turning to Manual Adjustment, select the C drive, and drag dots rightward to add more space to C drive. Click "OK" to confirm. Click the "Execute Operation" button at the top corner and start all pending operations by clicking "Apply". Step 1. Step 2. Windows will pop up a window and tell you that "Windows needs more space". After this, return and select the Fresh icon next to the Free up space button, a green checkmark will show up if the C drive has enough space.
You can click "Continue" to install the update. Step 4. Note: Please format the external storage such as external hard drive first in case the Windows update fail again. Step 5. If the external hard drive fails to show up, press the Fresh icon, and a green checkmark will appear next to the storage drive icon. Step 6. Click "Continue" to install the latest Windows 10 update on your PC. And follow the onscreen instructions to complete the Windows 10 update process.
If you don't have an external hard drive to help with Windows upgrades or if your internal hard drive doesn't have any room to expand the C drive, you might consider upgrading your system disk to an SSD or even a larger HDD to fix the problem of not enough space for Windows 10 update. Note: The operation of migrating OS to SSD or HDD will delete and remove existing partitions and data on your target disk when there is not enough unallocated space on the target disk.
If you saved important data there, back up them to an external hard drive in advance. Follow the steps below to upgrade or update Windows 10 using the Media Creation Tool.
Go to Download Windows 10 page on Microsoft website via your Windows 10 browser.
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