What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.

Due to the overall size of the drive, I don't think there's much you can do?
I was in the same boat - I uninstalled ALL the Windows games, and any other
items I could.

Good luck - Hard drives are very cheap these days, you might have to
bite-the-bullet and invest in one?

stainless45 = Jim

"John2044" wrote:

> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.

Get another hard drive. Move your personal data to that drive. Pretty
simple, really.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"John2044" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I
> have
> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.

"John2044" wrote:

> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.
The overall size of the drive is 80GB, E drive has 49GB.

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:15:01 -0700, John2044
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.


I don't know anything about what applications and files you have on
your drive, but I'll point out that 29.5GB is an *extremely* small
drive these days. If you shopped for a new drive, you would have a lot
of trouble finding one of a similar size for sale.

With such a small drive, anything you do for relief will not be much
more than a stopgap measure. It's best to bite the bullet and buy a
new (or second) drive. Fortunately prices are very low at the moment,
and you readily can buy a 160GB drive for as little as $50 US or so.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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By today standards your C: Drive is too small. I recommend that you get another hard drive that is bigger and install it as a slave and copy most everything over but not the OS. Or get another drive that is much bigger and re-install everything on that new drive.
Trying to save space on a small drive as you got now is pointless

--
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"John2044" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:A982794C-51C1-4D95-8C6D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.

John2044 wrote:
> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.
*This is from a previous post by another user. But it has some good
points. Beware that I also advocate buying a new Drive and getting
something like Acronis True Image Home to clone your HD to the new one.*
You can do any of these or all. Some are rather simple and not risky.




First use Windows 'Disk Cleanup' to create more space on your C: drive.
Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312

Next: Empty the Recycle Bin.

You can also free up more disk space by reducing
the number of 'System Restore' points:
Select Start/Control Panel/System, then in the System Properties window
click on the System Restore tab.
Next select the drive letter where Windows is installed (usually C,
Then click on the Setting button
Now in the Drive Settings window move the Disk space usage slider to the
left to reduce the amount of drive space System Restore points will use.
This will remove some of the older restore points and free up some space.

Disable Hibernation and delete hiberfil.sys file (If you have it enabled):
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...-xp-and-vista/
and:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...hibernate.mspx

Next if you still need more space:
Remove the files used to uninstall updates to Windows
These folders and associated files in these folders are safe to remove,
however once deleted you will no longer be able to un-install a patch or
update that was associated with the deleted folder/files.
I would keep the most recent set (last two months just in case) of folders
and delete the older updates.
As a safety net I burned these folders to a CD before deleting them.
These files are located in the Windows folder and have folder names
like $NtUninstallKBXXXXXX$.
They are hidden folders so enable viewing of hidden files in Windows
Explorer.

What about the file named $NTSevicePackUninstall$

Yes it's safe to remove this folder, which is about 330MB after Service
Pack
2 has been installed. If you have already installed Service Pack 3 then
this
folder may grow to over 600MB.

However once you delete this folder you can no longer uninstall the service
pack. So if you have just installed SP3 leave it on the drive for a while
until you are certain there are no problems that would make you wish you
had
not installed SP3.


Warning: One folder you should not delete is: $hf_mig$
Also See the following web pages on this issue:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm

Finally - You can reduce the size of the Internet Explorer Disk Cache:
How and Why to Clear Your Cache:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...learcache.mspx
Just follow the instructs but instead of increasing the size (as stated in
the article) decrease it.

OK it's partitioned into 2 drives - you didn't say that before...
I used a 3rd party partition remover - but you will loose ALL the info on
YOUR "E" drive. Power Quest Partition Magic 8.0 is the one I used.

Hope this helped...

"John2044" wrote:

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> "John2044" wrote:
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> > What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
> > removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> > drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.
> The overall size of the drive is 80GB, E drive has 49GB.

What's stored on E:\?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

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> "John2044" wrote:
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>> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I
>> have
>> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
>> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.
> The overall size of the drive is 80GB, E drive has 49GB.

John2044 wrote:
> What should I do to fix this? I have defrag and cleaned the c drive. I have
> removed ralerly used files and applicaitons and I can't get any relief. C
> drive is 29.5GB with 2.0GB unused.


Delete your porn man.
Or at the very least delete some of the stuff you're no longer in the
mood for.