How to clean an E: drive (new Recovery drive since Windows 10 1803) on HP laptop

I started getting warnings about running out of space on my E: drive. I've read many articles, threads and posts online about how to clean the drive but none of them resolved my issue.

My machine specs:

OS: Win 10 Pro

Version: 1803

OS build: 17134.1

I disabled hiding of protected/system files to see what's on the E: drive but I don't see any clutter. I ran the disk clean up several time as an admin to no avail. Any tips and suggestions how to clean up the E: drive would be much appreciated! Thanks.

1 Answer

This is a new OEM recovery drive that gets created during Windows 10 v1803 upgrade. You can fix the issue by removing the drive letter for the drive

• Open cmd.exe as admin
• run the following commands :

diskpart
list volume
select volume <number of the OEM recovery drive>
remove letter=<letter of the OEM recovery drive>
exit