How to Increase Space of any Drive C, D, or E in Windows 10

Curious internet users always try to search for something interesting like, How to Increase SD Card Space, How to Increase USB Disk (Pen drive) Space and this is not a myth, everything is possible at Techsable.

Yes! You can Expand/Increase Hard Drive Storage in Windows. This is possible because of Windows hard drives created as NTFS File system.

How much Storage I can Expand in windows

We’ve already tested, You can Expand between 5GB To 7GB storage from a 50GB drive when you enable compression.

Let’s focus on Drive (F:) Actual free Space is 4.7GB and we’re going to Enable compression on this Drive, let’s see how much storage we can Increase in Drive (F:).

 

How to Increase Space of any Drive C, D, or E in Windows 10

I am showing you by increasing the Space of my F drive and this post is for how to increase c, D, or E drive space in windows 10.

Let me tell you, You can try this method on any drive in Windows. Besides that, you can also increase USB Pendrive Space using this method.

Step 1. Select Drive >> Right-Click on it >> Properties

Simply select any drive whose storage you want to increase. Right-click on it and select Properties.

 

Step 2. Select General Tab >>Tick the Box

In the drive properties tab, Click on General Tab then Tick the box (Compress this drive to save disk space), and finally click on OK.

Step 3. Select Apply changes to drive, subfolders and files

After clicking on OK (in the previous step). You’ll see a confirm attribute changes popup, just Select 2nd option (Apply changes to drive, subfolders and files) then Click on OK.

Step 4. Wait for the Processing

Wait until the process is complete then you can see how much space increased on your drive.

I’ve tested on a very small drive consisting of only 50GB of drive storage and got 6GB more space, why don’t you try this tweak on a large space drive like a 100-200GB drive to get more storage.