Spring Creators update strange partition issue

[Orcvader]

Bit of a strange one here, brother's PC updated to the Spring Creators and for some reason it gave the 450mb recovery partition a drive letter (E: ) and it's constantly filling up, causing the disk full error:



I've seen the odd bug where it creates an extra partition, but not one where it does this .

EDIT: Used diskpart to remove the drive letter... no idea if that's the best fix but it "solved" it for now.

 

[bremen1874]

It shouldn't be filling up, it's just got so little space available that it's issuing warnings.

I found quite a few references to this problem while I was trying to find a fix for a different upgrade issue. General consensus appeared to be leave it in place but remove the drive letter.

 

[Orcvader]

Yup, did that for now. Compared it with mine and while it's a little bigger at 500mb (most likely due to me using a newer W10 ISO to install), the space used is roughly the same. So no worries I guess, probably my brother panicked and thought it was filling up. Still, odd that it randomly assigned it a drive letter.

 

[BENBOBBY]

I had the exact same issue - thanks for the tip regarding Diskpart.

For anyone else having the same issue theres a detailed tutorial here: https://www.maketecheasier.com/remove-assign-drive-letters-windows/