Fix error 0x80070070 : Using Disk Cleanup Tool to Free up Space in C Drive
In the process of Windows 10 update, you might encounter Windows 10 update error code 0x80070070, or 80070070, 0x80070070–0x50011, 0x80070070–0x50012, 0x80070070–0x60000 on your Windows 10 PC. This means that there isn't enough drive space on your computer to install the new Windows 10 version.
In most cases, you'll need about 16GB of free space to install Windows 10. If you don't have enough space on the system partition, you may receive the error code 0x80070070.
In this case, you can use Disk Cleanup tool to clean up the system files and free up some space and then try Windows 10 update. Here are detailed steps and pictures.
Step 1. Right-click Windows Start menu and select Disk Management to open it.
Step 2. Right-click the C drive and select Property from the pop-up window.
Step 3. Click the Disk Cleanup button.
Step 4. Check the items you want to delete. For example, you can delete Windows upgrade log files, Recycle Bin, Temporary Files, Thumbnails, and System created Windows Error Reporting. After checking all the files that you want to delete, click OK.
Step 5. Click Delete Files.
If you find there is not enough free space after running Disk Cleanup tool, you can try the following methods to fix error code 0x80070070 windows 10.
You can refer to the following ways to fix error 0x80070070
- Fix error 0x80070070 : Disable Disk Quotas or Limit Disk Space
- Fix error 0x80070070 Increase the Size of Windows Recovery Partition
- Fix error 0x80070070 : Extend the System Partition
- How to fix error 0x80070070 on Windows 10
- 5 tips to free up hard drive space
- Try Disk Usage, a new tool to analyze hard drive space on Windows 10
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