Thank you very much for the help. After I got back the 15GB, I went to my Windows 11 installation and shrunk that volume to get additional space of 300GB (using Disk Management in W11). Then after a lot of head scratching on how to append this to root partition, someone on AskUbuntu had suggested using Gparted from a bootable USB. This helped tremendously. It allowed me to add the 300GB to the root partition and now I have 800GB of space.
I ran Bicoincore last night and voila, I have all the blocks downloaded and syncd.
Thank you everyone for your valuable assistance