If you’ve recently encountered this error when trying to run a Windows update, the problem may be that your system reserved partition is full, which prevents the update procedure from starting. The trick is getting into it and clearing the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may have seen some solutions for this already that just delete the fonts from the EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\Fonts\\ folder, but in my environment that wasn’t sufficient space reclamation so I had to go a step further and delete a bunch of the unused language files from the folder one level up. The trick here<\/em> is to not delete the folders you actually need for your local language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, start of by launching an elevated PowerShell session, and then run the following commands to get into said folders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This should get you a list of all the language folders. Copy that out and then build a script to mount the volume, delete the folders recursively, delete the fonts as well, and then unmount the partition. NOTE: take care to preserve your local language folders – you’ll notice the script below does not delete the English folders “en-US” or “en-GB” because I’m in the USA. In the end, you’ll get something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n mountvol y: \/s With luck, you can then run the normal install process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve recently encountered this error when trying to run a Windows update, the problem may be that your system reserved partition is full, which prevents the update procedure from Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,25],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-geekery","tag-windowsupdate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
mountvol y: \/s
cd y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot
dir<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\bg-BG' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\cs-CZ' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\da-DK' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\de-DE' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\el-GR' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\es-MX' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\et-EE' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\fi-FI' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\fr-CA' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\fr-FR' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\hr-HR' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\hu-HU' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\it-IT' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\ja-JP' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\ko-KR' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\lt-LT' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\lv-LV' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\nb-NO' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\nl-NL' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\pl-PL' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\pt-BR' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\pt-PT' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\ro-RO' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\ru-RU' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\sk-SK' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\sl-SI' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\sv-SE' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\tr-TR' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\uk-UA' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\zh-CN' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\zh-TW' -Recurse
Remove-Item 'Y:\\EFI\\Microsoft\\Boot\\Fonts*.ttf'
mountvol y: \/d<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n