HP STREAM 5CD(£%£CNF recovery manager error 0XFFEE018 using a system recovery usb supplied by HP

[Peter-W50]

HP Stream [Personal Information Removed] windows s-mode 32-bit no new hardware or software added but internal drive has very little spare space. Received a System Recovery Kit for HP Stream p/n L69954-031

I only get as far as Recovery Manager Error 0XFFEE018

[WAWood]

@Peter-W50 

My guess is that you are trying to use HP Recovery media to do a factory reset of your Stream -- which is actually just a waste of your time.  The Stream only has a very small "drive" and while a reset will clear out the current files, once Windows, the drivers, and the HP utilities are reinstalled, Windows Update will fire up and fill up the drive in short order.

What you really need to do is use the utilities provided below to remove junk and unwanted files and do that on a regular basis:

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3012-disk-cleanup-open-use-windows-10-a.html
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-clean-up-winsxs-folder-in-windows-10/

Also, the community Win10 Forums has the following suggestions:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/83441-free-up-drive-space-windows-10-a.html

Finally, there is a freeware app known as Wise Disk Cleaner. I use it every day to get rid of junk files: https://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-disk-cleaner.html