I am overseeing several small Win 8.1 Tablets. They used Wimboot to optimize their disks.
When they came out of the box, they had 5.24 GB (of 8.77GB) free. Updating Windows Defender dropped this down to 4.84GB.
The Primary partition says that it is a Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Wim Boot, Primary Partition.
There is a 5.57 GB Recovery partition.
I can create a Recovery USB drive, but there is no option to remove the Recovery partition. Tech support says that that is where the Wimboot file is located and it can't be removed.
After applying major updates, it only had 2 GB free. No apps have been installed. I understand that while the original OS files were stored in the Wimboot partition, any updates to those files are store on the C: drive.
Is there way that I can apply the Windows updates to the Wimboot file and then reset the tablet to the factory configuration so that it will now have all the updates?
I can forsee a time in the near future when all the available disk space is taken up by Windows updates. The only alternative is to use the tablets without applying updates from Microsoft.
Alternatively, can I undo the Wimboot feature and combine the two partitions? I could remove Windows components to minimize the size of the OS and use my Recovery USB stick for system repairs.
Any ideas?