Ok, I’m running a friend’s computer, and i’m seeing something odd. He’s been trying to install a game onto his SSD. But windows is saying two different sizes of free space, and it’s mostly agreeing with the command prompt. But opening up File Explorer says differently. Which is right? And why is there a discrepancy? i included powershell, and command promt, those two seem to agree?
Why are you in Diskpart to install a game?
Also DIskpart free space is not looking at or telling you the same thing as the other areas, it is saying the volume on the disk is partitioned to use the whole disk and there is no space left to add more.
I was using it to see if there was a discrepancy. But it also shows you the amount of space left in the partition…
I know there’s no more partition space… i’m not trying to add partition. I’m trying to help him install a game. But the game says there’s no space left on the parition. When windows file explorer and disk management show there is.
Diskpart is supposed to tell you how much space is left on a partition also.
Marvel Rivals. And i’ve tried installing it on other drives and it’s still saying not enough hard drive space. Even though that drive has 461 GB of space
I’m beyond frustrated at this thing. It keeps saying ALL DRIVES have no space. But if I download something off the internet, windows has absolutely no problems.
This isnt true, but also defrag is maybe not the correct option. Windows is supposed to run a trim command instead. chkdsk /f D: would probably be the play.
everything looks to be in order, diskpart is reporting unallocated unpartitioned space within a drive as “Free”; windows explorer is showing logical free space within a formatted partition.
disk management shows both, but leaves out meaningless end scraps below a sector.
Yes, and i’ve never seen this before. It’s not a new system and he’s installed other games in the past. In fact I installed them for him. We thought today was going to be more of the same, and it’s not.
Ah, ok. I thought diskpart could show free space within the partition too. I thought it used to in the XP days. Been that long since i used that particular software. But i’m glad to be corrected. is there a console/command prompt that can show free space within a partion?
I’ve tried that. It says that it cannot continue because there isn’t sufficient space.
And it does this on all drives. But yet, if i download a file from like chrome or any other browser, it has no problems with that.
OK, will do. I was hoping so, but his internet is slow as dogwater, and I was hoping I didnt have to reinstall steam and his games too. Unless there’s a way to get steam to see his already gotten games. I know there used to be, but i’ve forgotten how to get steam to see his old library.
You shouldnt have to reinstall the games. You can point a fresh steam install to the existing steam library folders and it can pick back up where you left off.
Ok, so it can still do that. I’ve unfortunately forgotten how. I know it used to be straight forward, is it still straight forward still, and it should still be able to be done during installation right?
After install you just make a new steam library folder and point it to wherever they are in D:. It should just detect whats there and populate the games list.
If things are installed to C: Then you might consider moving those.
I’m maybe not describing this well. The option to do both of these is in its menus.
