C Drive is 92% full

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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.
 
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
 
Get another hard drive. Move your personal data to that drive. Pretty
simple, really.
 
John2044 said:
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.
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The overall size of the drive is 80GB, E drive has 49GB.
 
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.
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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.
 
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
 
John2044 said:
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.
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*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/...sys-hibernation-file-in-windows-xp-and-vista/
and:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/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/ie6/using/howto/customizing/clearcache.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 said:
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.
Click to expand...


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


You need to either buy an additional hard drive (best choice) or
remove more files/applications.
 
stainless45 said:
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.
Click to expand...

NOT. 3rd party partition managers can merge partitions without losing
data.

Maybe you've done these things but: empty the recycle bin, empty the
TEMP folder. Dump as much as you can to CDs or DVDs.
 
SSJ04 said:
John2044 <[email protected]>

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

Right click on My Computer and see how much space System Restore is using.
Since I've just installed XP Home over ME I'm using 50% of the drive
space.
SR set at 100% will do this. Set it to a comfortable level.
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Actually since HD sizes vary, the percentage is a bit misleading. Just set
it to a reasonable size, like say 1 GB (or perhaps even less, but 1 GB is
good for me), whatever % that ends up being.
 
No, Gary. 100 MB will store only ONE restore point, as each restore point
is typically around 60 MB in size.

1 GB is good, as I said. (Or at a minimum, perhaps 500 MB). At least
with 1 GB I can keep one or two weeks worth of restore points, typically.
 
Spell checker got that one. It should read, "Oops, I thought you were
talking about TIFs."
 
John2044 said:
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.
Click to expand...

Fix it by getting a new drive. 80 gig drives are under $50 now, 500 gig
drives around $100. Your drive is probably over 5 years old (the data is
on the label) and nearing the end of its reliable life.

Remove your drive, and attach it and the new drive to another XP system
using USB2 drive cases or internal connectors. Then use the Acronis
TrueImage Home trial to clone the old disk to the new one *in manual mode*,
tell it to use a proportional method to enlarge the partitions, using the
entire space on the new drive.

You can slightly speed up the process, which will be quick, by looking in
the root folder and removing the one or two large files, hiberfil.sys and
pagefile.sys; empty the wastebasket. These will be recreated as needed.

This process should take under an hour.

HTH
-pk
 
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