How To Increase Hard Disk Space in Windows

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In this Post, you’re going to learn How To Increase Hard Disk Space in Windows.

Yes! You can Expand/Increase Hard Drive Storage in Windows. This is possible because of Windows hard drives created as NTFS File system. NTFS File system allows you to Enable compression and save storage or you can say Enable compression will increase your Hard Drive storage.

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

It totally depends on the size of drive you’re using, If you enable compression on the drive of 100GB so your drive space will increase between 10GB to 15GB.

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:)

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.

2 Select General Tab >> Tick the Box >>OK. 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.

3 Select “Apply changes to drive, subfolders and files” >> OK. 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.

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