Empty partition on the hdd in my all in one

[TomLa44]

My system has a 1TB HDD. The system makes available approximately 75GB for my working portion of the HDD and approximately 17GB for the Recovery. System Information shows four partitions, one of which is approximately 900GB, or about 90 percent of the HDD. When I attempt to install large updates, like the most recent major Windows 10 redo, the update uttility requires use of an external drive as the utility does not find sufficient memory to handle the update. What is that 900GB partition used for? May I adjust the partitions to get access to all or part of that 900GB?

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

Please provide your PC's product number only.

HP sometimes provides a small, faster SSD for the operating system and a larger platter HDD for storage. I agree with the 17 GB recovery partition but HP does not normally partition the 1 TB HDD into smaller chunks.

You will have a storage problem if you have the small SSD factory option and you have installed programs, and store large amounts of data on the small SSD. There will be no free space for Windows to use to install OS updates.

But I won't know what the problem is until I can look at your PC's specs.

Please upload an image of your PC's disk configuration that can be found in: Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. This image would help.

Regards