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C:/ space issues

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jackthesailor

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ive got 100 gigs free on my E: which is no space problem at all, but on my C drive the current space is at, 135Megs out of 4.87gigs. the problem is, when i open my C drive to see what all that other space is being used by (i made C drive mainly to hold windows partition and never placed anything els there) it says theres only 2.75gigs even used. And when i goto say transfer a file on my E drive (with Winrar) it says im out of disk space. I have emptied my recycle bin, cleared my temp folder in C drive, and the only things on my desktop are little icons nothing bigger than 1meg all togather. i was thinking about repartitioning just doing half and half so i wouldnt run into any problems, but thats my last resort. If anyone could clue me in onto something i might be overlooking it would be great.

thanks :)
 
nope not the page file just tried that. :( any other ideas? ive defraged my E drive for the sake of curiousity. (cant do C cuz i dont have 15% space free)
 
Run Disk Cleanup.

If you're running XP, delete all your Restore Points and turn System Restore off.

Empty your Temporary Internet Files and cookies

Open C:\Temp and C:\Windows\Temp (C:\WINNT for 2K) and delete everything inside there (old remaining files from installs and upgrades of programs)

Defrag the hard drive. That should free up some space for you. One thing I will recommend now though is move your Pagefile to E: NOW before you suffer a fatal crash. Even with large amounts of RAM the Page file can still grow well beyond your 135MB free space.
 
Also, (presuming you're not using it) disable Hibernation in the Hibernation tab of the Power Control Panel applet. That will free up an amount of space on C:\ equal to the amount of RAM in your system.

You can go to System Properties (Windows + Break on your keyboard), Advanced tab, Performance Settings, Advanced tab, then click 'Change.' You will now be able to adjust your page file - set C:\ to 0 minimum and maximum, then click set. It will give you a message about not being able to do a memory dump if a STOP error occurs, close that out as I hope you don't get STOP errors often. On E:\, you can use either system managed size or set a custom size using the same method that you used to set C: to zero.

CAUTION: I do not want this thread to turn into a discussion on what page file size/location is best. That question needs to be asked in Operating Systems, not here. - DL
 
jack...
another problem that you've got is that Windows XP SP2 requires almost 4.5 Gb of space just for itself.
Your 4.87Gb drive just isn't big enough for that load.

You can try to compress the drive but it'll really slow you down.
I just had to replace a friends notebook drive for the same reason. His 6Gb drive wouldn't let him have room to do anything other than boot SP2.

I'd image that puppy to the bigger drive and replace it with a bigger cheap drive, 20Gb will work and will be really cheap, if you can find one. Check the FS/FT threads or the hotdeals or fleabay.

Sorry to tell you this, but I don't think that you'll be happy until you replace it.

Luck!

 
for future note: whenever a proggy wants to install - make sure to request it install on your E:
you may want to back up - then reformat the drive with a bare minimum of 10gb space for your C:
Look for the new seagate 7200 rpm 10gb PATA drive out (designed for the Xbox if I remember correctly) you can get those cheap - off ebay and that would do well for a OS only drive.
swap your swap file to E:
 
HvyMtl raises a great question - is that 4.87GB figure one partition on a much larger drive, or is that the whole drive? If it's the whole drive, you will realize a sizable performance boost, particularly redcued boot times, if you go to a larger, newer, faster boot drive. Even an 80GB/8MB/7200RPM drive will be an amazing performance boost, for not much dough.
 
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