SSD drive: What should look like drive space allocation

Hello

This morning MY win 64 PC failed to load up. A message saying that I need to load up the Win 64 disk installation.


I removed my SSD drive and installed it using an USB adapter to another PC. When looking at the disk allocation, I see that drive F: is nearly full while drive G: where all my files do reside still have spaces available.

Here drive G: is my drive C: when install on my PC and Win 7 64 is under this drive

I do not remember to have installed a second drive on my SSD, maybe it was installed automatically with the installation software.

This F drive do appear in red in My Computer and a warning message is displayed by Windows mentioning that the drive is full

Is there a way to increase space allowance for a SSD drive without risking to loose data?
Is the fact that this drive is full may cause a Windows problem?

Any information appreciate

Martin

It would be helpful if you would attach a screen shot of Disk Management with SSD connected with the USB adapter.

Has requested, here id a snap picture of My Computer window when the drive containing the faulty WIN 7 is installed using an external usb adapter

Thanks for any help

martin

That F partition on the same drive is a useless partition Windows creates when installing (for use with Bitlocker). It just places all boot files there, while the entire system, user files and programs lie in the rest, the G partition here. That's why it's so small and almost full, and is never shown on Windows.

It's normal and almost all times should not cause any trouble. Search for "system reserved partition" for more info about it, both this forum and Google contains lots of tips about it. Don't worry about it, just care about your own files on G. Windows will most likely recreate it when you reinstall it.

Alejandro85 said:

That F partition on the same drive is a useless partition Windows creates when installing (for use with Bitlocker). It just places all boot files there, while the entire system, user files and programs lie in the rest, the G partition here. That's why it's so small and almost full, and is never shown on Windows.

It's normal and almost all times should not cause any trouble. Search for "system reserved partition" for more info about it, both this forum and Google contains lots of tips about it. Don't worry about it, just care about your own files on G. Windows will most likely recreate it when you reinstall it.

Thank you Alejandro85

I will look somewhere else for what could had cause the problem

Martin

Normally that System Reserved partition (F: in your case) does not have a drive letter assigned, so it would be hidden in My Computer.

You can remove the drive letter in Disk Management.

Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove in Windows