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Are you having insufficient storage available error on your Android phone? Thinking that your Android phone can no longer meet your demand for big storage space for saving more wonderful data such as photos or videos? Here in this article, you'll find several methods showed to fix 'insufficient storage available' error on your Android phone and extend Android internal storage space with ease.

Close all open apps and programs. Open Disk Cleanup. Windows 10: Using the search box on the taskbar, search for and open Disk Cleanup. Windows 8: From the Start screen, type cleanmgr to open the Search charm, and then select cleanmgr from the search results. The Disk Cleanup: Drive Selection window opens. Jul 17, 2017  Related: These Gadgets can Extend iPhone Battery Life and Storage Memory in one shot If you have a Windows Recovery Partition, that will swallow another 4 – 6GB space for system recovery file. In a nutshell, for a 32GB laptop or Hard disk with Windows 10 OS, you can hardly get 10GB of free space if you are lucky enough!

If you are not quite familiar with Android phone management jobs, Method 1, 2, 3 shall be your top choices. Now you may selectively choose any one offered methods to fix 'Insufficient Storage Available' error and expend Android storage space with a faster running speed.

Method 1. Extend Android storage space with memory card

Adding memory card into an Android phone will surely help to expend Android storage space. According to follow below steps, you'll get a new way to borrow space from memory card and increase internal memory space on an Android phone.

Just follow below 2 steps to extend Android internal memory space with a new memory card now. You may select a memory card with enough space such as 32GB or 64GB etc to add to your present Android phone internal memory.

1. Partition memory card

• Download and install partition manager software - EaseUS Partition Master for free on your PC and connect the memory card which you want to add space to Android internal memory with your PC.

The memory card will become unallocated and then you need to create 2 partitions - a Fat32 primary partition and an Ext2/3/4 primary partition on the SD card.

Step 1: Launch EaseUS Parition Master

On the main window, right-click on the unallocated space on your hard drive or external storage device and select 'Create'.

Step 2: Adjust the new partition size, file system, label, etc.

Set the size, partition label, drive letter, file system, etc. for the new partition and click 'OK' to continue.

Step 3: Confirm to create a new partition

Click on the 'Execute Operation' button and confirm to create a new partition by clicking 'Apply'.

2. Increase Android internal memory by Link2SD

After creating needed partitions in the memory card, you can then add the second Ext2/3/4 partition to increase internal storage space on Android phone with the help of Link2SD. Here are the details:

• Insert memory card to Android phone and download Link2SD app on Android phone;
• Do remember to root the phone in advance so to allow Link2SD to get access to your phone.
• Run Link2SD and select the file system of your SD card's second partition: 'Ext2', 'Ext3' or'Ext4' and click 'OK'.
• Reboot device and run Link2SD again, click Settings > Check the 'autolink' to move apps upon installation.

• If you already have some apps, select 'Create' link.
• Check memory and select 'Storage Info' to see the current internal memory status.

Now that the second partition has been added into Android as internal memory and you can save and install as many apps and files as you want.

Method 2. Clean up useless apps, history or caches to increase Android internal memory

Sometimes, Android apps will take up quite a lot of space in Android phones with browsing history and caches. As time goes by, every app on users' phone will be filled with cached files. Therefore, cleaning up useless apps, history or caches will surely save more useful space and extend Android internal memory.

1. Delete or clear useless apps history
Go to 'Settings' > Tab'Apps' > Choose useless apps or unwanted app and select 'Uninstall' or 'Clear Data'.

2. Clean up app history or caches
Go to 'Settings' > 'Storage' > Click 'Cached data' > You'll receive a message showing 'This will clear cached data for all apps', click 'OK'.

You may also try to delete some useless programs to release some space. But some programs may take very little free space. You may try Method 3 to transfer important data to Cloud or PC so to save Android memory space.

Method 3. Transfer data to Cloud storage or PC to extend Android internal storage

If you have a Cloud account such as Google Drive for your Android phone, it will be a good way to save Android phone storage space by transferring data to Cloud storage. Wonderful photos, videos or other files can be upload to Cloud so to save more free space on Android.

If you don't have a Cloud account, you may choose a PC or tablets or other external storage devices to save internal memory on the Android phone. You can try to export rarely used data to PC and delete them on your phone.

If you don't want to move your Android data or files out and save in Cloud or PC, you can also try to add memory so to increase internal memory on Android with USB OTG. Detail steps will be listed in Step 4.

Method 4. Expand Android storage space with USB OTG

USB OTG allows users to plug in peripherals such as storage devices - USB etc and add more space to Android phones.
If you don't know whether your phone supports USB OTG or not, you can download USB OTG Checker app to test.
USB OTG will help you to increase Android internal storage space by adding an external hard drive or USB drive etc to phone with OTG adapter.

Method 5. Use Terminal Emulator/INT2EXT/Mounts2SD apps for help

Other known apps such as Terminal Emulator, INT2EXT or Mounts2SD can also help to add SD card space to an Android phone so to increase Android internal memory with ease. You may selectively try any one of these apps and apply to increase your Android internal storage space then.

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Hi Smruti,

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps below

1. Run Disk Management. Open Run Command (Windows button +R) a dialog box will open and type 'diskmgmt.msc'.
2. In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that you want to shrink, and select “Extend Volume” from the menu
3. Locate your system partition — that’s probably the C: partition. Right-click on it and select “Shrink Volume.” If you have multiple partitions on your hard drive, you could also choose to resize a different partition to free up space.

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help

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have you found a solution to this yet? I am having same issue. I have a drive D that has 280GB unused space that I would like to move to C drive in order to extend C. however when I shrink D, the unallocated space is next to D and not able to extend to C. any recommendations?

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I have two NTFS partitions, C and D. My C drive contains all the common folders (Documents, downloads, music, pictures, videos) as well as the OS, boot, page file and crash dump, and is almost full. My D drive only has a bunch of dll files, and 280GB free space. I wish to shrink D by about 200GB and extend C by the same 200 GB. However, using the Disk Management utility, when I shrink D by 200GB, I show 200GB unallocated. However I am unable to access the 200GB unallocated to extend C, since it is not next to C. How do I make the extra unallocated space available for C partition?

see the pic for a view of my Disk management screen.

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Hello:

This was not answered; he wanted to know how to extend his OS drive. He did not want to SHRINK it. It is almost one year later and still no answer. Was it solved in one of the updates that are only issued every once in awhile.

Please help sooner rather than later

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Hello:

This was not answered; he wanted to know how to extend his OS drive. He did not want to SHRINK it. It is almost one year later and still no answer. Was it solved in one of the updates that are only issued every once in awhile.

Please help sooner rather than later

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You need to shrink D

Then you need to move D up to the end of the drive ***

This gives you the free space before D

Then you need to move the Recovery partition up next to D

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This will give you the free space next to C and allow you to expand C

*** I don't think the Windows Disk Manager allows you to move partitions up and down the physical drive. if it doesn't, then you need a different partition manager such as Easus Partition Manager Free. A quick Google produced a list of 10 available free.

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Post by Munshi Majid Ali helped me resolve my issue. As I had very few files in the adjacent drive ( D: ), I moved them to another drive ( F: ). Delete drive D: to free up space next to C: Voila...!!! I was able to extend C: . Hope this helps.

P.S: Space beside C: was not occupied by recovery like in andynan 's post

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