New Local Drive E with low disk space created after Windows Patch update

Problems Caused by April 2018 Windows 10 Updates

Question : I am using windows 10 operating system. Yesterday, i checked for new windows 10 updates and found that few updates are due on my machine. So i updated them and all installed smoothly but after machine restart, i noticed that my PC has new drive E: and it is annoying me with warning message low disk space. I don’t know what is this and how to avoid this. Please help? 

Answer : Many users are seeing this new drive after applying windows updates. This is the recovery drive created at the time of windows updates. It should not have a drive letter. Lets remove it – 

1. On you windows machine, click your Start Button – > type cmd – > right click command prompt – > choose ‘Run as Administrator’ 

2. On the command prompt, type diskpart command and hit Enter. 

• Type – list volume and write down drive letter associated with that new drive (which you want to remove)
• Now, run below command one by one (Use drive which you want to remove in place of Z) —
  a) select volume Z
  b) remove letter=Z 
• This will remove drive from your machine. Now you can restart your PC and check. 

You can see below picture to refer above commands. In the pic we have removed E drive from machine which was giving low disk error.