Installation progress: 23 GB remaining on a 240 GB SSD drive.
Installation progress: 23 GB remaining on a 240 GB SSD drive.
You installed Windows on a freshly formatted SSD and ended up with a lot of space taken up by system files. The remaining space was minimal, leaving only a few gigabytes available. The update process didn’t seem to affect the actual storage capacity—only the temporary files. To free up space, you can perform a clean install again, ensuring you remove all previous partitions and use a fresh OS image. This will give you a clean slate and allow you to allocate the desired 50GB for Windows without interference from old data.
Windows shouldn't handle such a large amount. If that many people could use 120GB SSDs, something must have gone wrong during setup. I’d retry and double-check everything. Did you create a partition for Windows? For a clean install, just place Windows directly on the disk—no need to partition it, as Windows handles that automatically.
Do not handle partitions manually. Remove all partitions, then let Windows set up new ones automatically. When prompted, clear everything except the unallocated area, then proceed.
That's not helpful guidance, keep it in place. Smile and press Winkey + R to open the disk management tool.
On Windows, open Disk Management and follow the steps. You’ll see C:\ with about 50GB available and D:\ with the rest. I think 75GB is a better amount. Remember, when upgrading to a new Windows 10 version, such as the "Fall Creator Update," you’ll need space to save the current installation in a folder named "Windows.old" for recovery if needed.