c drive full - pc is only 1 month old!!

[Guest]

Hi

I got a message today that my C Drive was full. I have only had the PC 1
month and I have only used about 5GB of the available 80GB. What can be
causing this?

thanks in advance

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try this:

Go to a command prompt, change to the Windows folders and then run the
following command:

dir /a/s

What disk space is reported as being used then?

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[Guest]

Will, thanks for the reply

It says "5 dirs , 45,953,024 bytes free".

What now?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Gryffe

Go back to a command prompt and type the following with an Enter between
each:

cd\
dir /a/s > disk.txt

That will create a file called disk.txt in the root folder. Open that file
in Notepad and see where all the large files are. You may have some
anomalous ones. It may take a while for the file to be created.

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[John R Weiss]

Big violators:

MSIE Temporary Internet Files. Delete them, including off-line files
(check the box in the dialog), then restrict the files to 5 MB max.

System Restore. Restrict it to 5 or 10% of the drive space.

Recycle Bin. If you don't empty it occasionally, it could be taking up
a lot of space.

TEMP files. Look in the \Windows\Temp folder and the \Temp folder under
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings for each user account.
Delete all files. Windows will refuse to delete the ones it is really
using.

 

[Guest]

thanks John, my daughter had somehow managed to create a webcam file of 70gb

Big violators:

MSIE Temporary Internet Files. Delete them, including off-line files
(check the box in the dialog), then restrict the files to 5 MB max.

System Restore. Restrict it to 5 or 10% of the drive space.

Recycle Bin. If you don't empty it occasionally, it could be taking up
a lot of space.

TEMP files. Look in the \Windows\Temp folder and the \Temp folder under
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings for each user account.
Delete all files. Windows will refuse to delete the ones it is really
using.

It says "5 dirs , 45,953,024 bytes free".

What now?