Low Disk Space in Lenovo Q Drive Problem
For Lenovo users, you are likely to encounter this error message “Low disk space
you’re running out of on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:). Click here to see if you can free
space on this drive”, this error message will pop up constantly, it’s quite
annoying.
Why this Lenovo low disk space error on Q drive appears? The recovery Q partition on
Lenovo computer around 10GB designed for system rescue and recovery to restore your
Lenovo computer like ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, ThinkStation to factory settings. In
other words, the Lenovo recovery Q drive contains the recovery image and has enough
extra space to avoid “low disk” warning. If you got this low disk error message, it
might indicate that some other data or your personal files like your backups have
been written to the Q drive.
Quick Solution
If you select the Lenovo Recovery Q partition to save the backups unintentionally,
Check your backup location and change another destination to save the backup image
file. And move your backups to safe place, this Lenovo Q drive low disk space
warning should be gone.
Disable Low Disk Space Alert
If you don’t want to know why it happened and don’t want to see this error message
again, just disable the low disk space notification. Here is how.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Create Recovery Media and Delete Q Drive
If you have recovery media for your Lenovo computer, there is no reason to have this
Q partition. If else, create a rescue recovery media before deleting.
To make it easy, double click the Q drive and follow the prompts to create recovery
drive. After creating, you have to delete the Q drive to free up space. The Lenovo Q
drive low disk space will never bother you again.
There are two ways to delete Lenovo recovery Q drive: Disk Management and AOMEI Partition Assistant
Professional.
Delete with Disk Management

Delete With AOMEI Partition Assistant
In addition, you can use the disk partitioning software-AOMEI Partition Assistant
Professional to delete Lenovo Q drive after creating recovery media.
Step 1. Download AOMEI Partition
Assistant Professional, install and launch it. On the main console, right click
Lenovo Q drive and choose “Delete
Partition”.

Step 2. Select a way to delete Q drive. “Delete partition quickly”
or “Delete partition and prevent data recovery, it will take more time”, then hit
“OK”.

Step 3. Click “Apply” to make the Q drive as an unallocated space.

If you want to make full use of the unallocated space in your computer, you can use
AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional to merge
it to system drive. Or create
partition on it to save other data.
Conclusion
This software also allows you to restore
Lenovo Recovery Q drive as long as it’s not overwritten after deletion. Besides,
you can use the professional software to migrate
OS to SSD drive, Allocate free
space from one to another drive, and many more.
With the detailed instructions, the Lenovo recovery partition almost full problem
will be fixed effortlessly.