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I've decided to try out the 'Hyper-V Windows 10 dev environment' on my laptop. Beginning this I only had about 20gb remaining so had to remove an additional 20gb from my hard drive, leaving me with 40gb free.(which is the recommended free amount to use Hyper-V)

I initiated Hyper-V Windows 10 dev environment through Hyper V quick create, but just before it finished installing the application stopped saying there wasn't enough free storage to complete the task.

Before beginning the daunting process of removing more files I looked how much storage space I should have which was now at 22GB free. What happened to the other 18GB I had before the download began?

I've tried a restart, c-cleaner, and treeSize but I cant see anything out of the ordinary.

It wouldn't have allowed me to begin the first install unless there was 40GB free. So where did this space go to?

Dave M
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  • It’s extremely unlikely the Temporary Files is the literal Hyper-V Windows Feature. What’s more likely it’s a virtual HDD file allocation, have you checked, for a folder of the name of the VM you attempted to create and/or to delete the VM within Hyper-V manager? – Ramhound Apr 10 '21 at 14:14
  • Yes just searched the C drive for the folder, no sign of it. Also the VM doesnt exist within the hyper V manager – John Apr 10 '21 at 14:31

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