HP Tools - Increase partion size.

[DougE21st]

How do I increase partition size used by HP Tools? I keep getting a message saying am running out of disk space. My Pavilion g7 was upgraded to Windows 10.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@DougE21st

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

Sorry, but I don't have very good news for you ...

Basically, you don't -- increase the space allocated to the HP_TOOLS partition.  That is a very small partition, usually formatted as FAT, which makes it useless for practically anything else.

If you're writing stuff to that drive, then your settings are incorrect, as you should NOT be writing to that drive at all.

The disk space that Windows monitors is in the OS partition, usually your C: drive -- and if that is filling up, making changes to the HP_TOOLS drive is not going to help in any way.

If you Upgraded your PC to Win10 from a prior OS, then most likely, there's still Upgrade stuff lying around that could be taking up a LOT of room on C:, so to remove that, follow these instructions:

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/

Good Luck

[DougE21st]

I am not (knowingly) saving anything to the HP Tools (E) partition. It appears to be intended as a backup partition. However, I regularly backup my drives to external harddrives. Any additional backup is good, but HP Tools has become a problem, continually showing pop-ups telling me I am near my limit. Can I just disable this?