Hmmm. Free space isn't correct for every partition.
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Commands to find the free space within the EFI and Recovery partitions
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You can use Minitool Partition Wizard to peruse some of those hidden partitionsWhen troubleshooting Windows upgrade failures the failure log files may report blocks due to deficient free space.
There may deficient space errors in one or more of these partitions:
EFI
system-reserved-partition
Primary
Recovery
The deficient space for the error message we-couldn-t-update-system-reserved-partition is frequently 3 MB.
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Diskpart is useful for the primary partition.
What commands can be used before an upgrade attempt to determine the free space (MB) for each of these partitions?
EFI
system-reserved-partition
Recovery
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Were you referring to right click explore?
How can you quickly determine free space if the software is installed?
What are Windows options if the software is nor installed?
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I don't know why. It seems to work fine for me with PowerShell 5.1
Code:
DevicePath ==> Guid AccessPaths Offset Size (B) Size D P Type L VolLabel
------------------- ----------- ------ -------- ---- - - ---- - --------
{187a8621-89ba-4391-8054-5fdae03f0e43} 17408 134217728 128,00 MB 1 1 Reserved
Free space: ( N/A )
\Device\HarddiskVolume2 ==>
{b753f357-ac6d-481c-8c98-8009638550df} \\?\Volume{b753f357-ac6d-481c-8c98-8009638550df}\ 135266304 104857600 100,00 MB 1 2 System
Free space: ( N/A )
\Device\HarddiskVolume3 ==>
{84544550-bab0-45e4-9bdd-3d494bbf5f6c} C:\ 240123904 510961647616 475,87 GB 1 3 Basic C Boot
\\?\Volume{84544550-bab0-45e4-9bdd-3d494bbf5f6c}\
Free space: 88315183104 (82,25 GB)
\Device\HarddiskVolume4 ==>
{4689c092-39fa-4e06-991d-6860c5ede57b} \\?\Volume{4689c092-39fa-4e06-991d-6860c5ede57b}\ 511201771520 2146431488 2,00 GB 1 4 Recovery
Free space: 1131892736 (1,05 GB)
\Device\HarddiskVolume5 ==>
{d2ff97e0-07b4-49a7-b68a-7bab14b6c933} D:\ 513348206592 1287009698304 1,17 TB 1 5 Basic D Recover
\\?\Volume{d2ff97e0-07b4-49a7-b68a-7bab14b6c933}\
Free space: 124493766656 (115,94 GB)
\Device\HarddiskVolume6 ==>
none Z:\ 1048576 8588886016 8,00 GB 0 1 IFS Z RAMDISK
\\?\Volume{d94a8475-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\
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I used DiskGenius (Standard - paid) to enlarge my recovery partion to 1.2 GB. I did this once before when an update would not install. But a fresh install of 24H2 only made the recovery partition about 684MB.
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