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6y

So. My grandma (280 km away) gave me a call.
Grandma: "Hiii. I have a problem with my PC."
Me thinking "ok. Just an ordinary tech support call from granny..."
Me: "Ok. What's the issue?"
Grandma: "Windows tells me there is no space left on drive F, non-stop"
Me: "As far as I know there is no drive F on your PC"
Grandma: "Would you be so kind to have a look?"

I agreed to log on via team viewer.

To cut an already long story short, there was this April Update which sent a bug all around the globe.

This bug exposed an internal drive Windows uses to do its Windows stuff - whatever it is.

Regularly these kind of drives are hidden from users eyes...

I finally solved it by applying a rollback on Windows.
The update is gone and with the next update there will be a fix from May to hide this drives again.

Microsoft!
I do you scare grandparents all around the globe?!??

rant

whyyyy

no space left

windows 10

damn you m$

hidden drives

update
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  • 9
    6y
    I had the same problem with my aunts laptop. I was so confused when I saw, that I couldn't see files in it because I had no rights to read.
    Solved it by unmounting the partition.
    No complaints since then.
  • 3
    6y
    Your last line x'D
  • 5
    6y
    shouldn't roll back.

    diskpart
    list
    select 0
    remove letter X
  • 5
    6y
    mountvol /D F:

    No need to do a complete rollback for this.
  • 1
    6y
    System reserved isn't it?
  • 1
    6y
    Rollback for a mounted partition? Storm in a teacup.
  • 6
    6y
    As a linux user i have no idea what you are talking about
  • 0
    6y
    @antorqs
    You're welcome ^^
  • 1
    6y
    @vidu
    xD
  • 2
    6y
    @vidu Imagine Linux having a separate partition with core element of Linux. Lets say it's at

    /dev/sda0. Normally this wouldn't be mounted because there is no need to. Users don't need to access it. It's for restoring Linux files that are corrupt.

    Now you update <your Linux variant here> and suddenly the system starts talking about /mnt/system_reserved being full. /dev/sda0 is now mounted to /mnt/system_reserved, while this should never happen.

    As a Linux user you obviously know what's wrong and you can fix it but an old lady doesn't.

    I hope I've explained it properly.
  • 2
    6y
    The April update can go sit on a running chainsaw blade on top of a volcano!
  • 1
    6y
    But sadly, they are not the only one.
    Jetbrains recently failed in a decent way with their phpstorm update.

    It's like.
    Oh boy. It's so darn hot.
    Let's skip the unit-tests and grap an ice cold coke. It will turn out well and nobody will ever notice!

    xD xD xD
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