C: drive of HDD almost full

[Suresh Lohar]

Hi

I have a 40 GB HD with three partition C D E
loaded with windowsxp sp2 and office 2003.
by the time my C drive is almost full and D E had
lot of space.

C 10 GB D=10 GB and E=20GB

Now when I started to burn a DVD and error msg I get
that Drive C has less space than required. Actually only 900 mb is
left behind and I have to burn DVD for atleast 3-4 GB.

What help I can GET:
1- Can I resize disk partitions?
2- Or Nero where park the burning data while burning a DVD
at C:\document & Setting can be changed, if yes How ?

thanks

 

[Carlos CZ]

Hi Suresh

Why not to copy files from C to other logic drives D, E and stop saving more
data on C ?

best regards, Carlos

 

[Malke]

Hi

I have a 40 GB HD with three partition C D E
loaded with windowsxp sp2 and office 2003.
by the time my C drive is almost full and D E had
lot of space.

C 10 GB D=10 GB and E=20GB

Now when I started to burn a DVD and error msg I get
that Drive C has less space than required. Actually only 900 mb is
left behind and I have to burn DVD for atleast 3-4 GB.

What help I can GET:
1- Can I resize disk partitions?
2- Or Nero where park the burning data while burning a DVD
at C:\document & Setting can be changed, if yes How ?

thanks

You should clean up your computer and resize your partitions. You will
need third-party software to resize partitions non-destructively. I
believe Acronis makes a partition manager, and there is Symantec
Partition Magic and Terabyte BootIT NG. The alternative is to back up
your data and do a clean install, deleting current partitions and
creating new ones during the install.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html (how-to)
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#reinstall_Windows (what
you will need on-hand)

With such a small hard drive, you might want only one partition for data
and another one for programs. Or if you have a desktop, add a second
hard drive for data.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Maintenance

Make sure you back up all your data before working on the partitions.
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Backing_Up

Malke

 

[Malke]

Malke wrote:

With such a small hard drive, you might want only one partition for
data and another one for programs. Or if you have a desktop, add a
second hard drive for data.

But what I really *meant* was "With such a small hard drive, you might
only want one partition for data and another one for *Windows*". Sorry
about that. There is no advantage in terms of system recovery to
putting programs on a partition other than the one that holds Windows.

Malke

 

[Suresh Lohar]

I belongs to a small town of India,and we hardly get
latest hardaware quickly. This hard disk I bought 24 months
back and then it was the bigest available HD in size.

I have OEM Xp and office 2003 and afraid I may loose
registration. I have Nero 6.6 any many other softwares.
I have deleted most of useless software also from C

 

[Malke]

I belongs to a small town of India,and we hardly get
latest hardaware quickly. This hard disk I bought 24 months
back and then it was the bigest available HD in size.

I have OEM Xp and office 2003 and afraid I may loose
registration. I have Nero 6.6 any many other softwares.
I have deleted most of useless software also from C

No matter where you live, it is foolish not to back up your data and
keep a record of your registions/product keys. Since you have an OEM
version of XP, the product key will be on a COA sticker somewhere on
the computer. Find it and write it down. You can use one of these key
finders to find the product key for your Office suite:

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml - Key Finder
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html - Nirsoft Key
Finder

The same advice holds - you will need to a) clean up your computer; b)
either get third-party partitioning software to do non-destructive
partitioning work; c) do a clean-install of Windows.

Malke

 

[JS]

One thing you might try is to create a permanent pagefile located on the D
or E partition. This should free up some space on C:
Free up more space on C: by - removing any Windows temp files, Cookies, IE
Explorer temp files.

If all your windows updates have installed properly and other than the disk
space issue the system is working properly you can also compress or remove
the uninstall files, typically named like the following:
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB825119$.
See: http://www.ccleaner.com/

Also check you setting for System Restore, by reducing to how much drive
space this feature can use to about 20% (2 GB) it will limit the number of
restore points create severely, but may also free up some more space.

Jim

 

[Suresh Lohar]

Hi sir

One thing more I just want to ask you that instead of all these things..
where can I change the destination of burning process in C.

Like presently it uses the space while burning a DVD at
C:\Document & setting\my name\local setting\temp folder.

Can I change this one at any where in HD partition either D or E
Please help.. it will be more easier.

 

[Suresh Lohar]

Sir,
My xp with sp2 after all update running fine and I found that
near about 550mb files are there in C:\windows\$uninstall.....
can I delete them. I have no problme with system.

 

[Ghostrider]

Sir,
My xp with sp2 after all update running fine and I found that
near about 550mb files are there in C:\windows\$uninstall.....
can I delete them. I have no problme with system.

Since your Windows XP is working satisfactorily, these files
can be deleted. Or, OTOH, these files can be moved to another
partition but keep the blank $Uninstall folder intact.

But a better solution would be to put the temporary storage
location for DVD copying into one of the other partitions.
Most DVD burning applications specify at least 10 MB of space,
with Drive C as the default. But it should also be possible to
designate a different partition.

 

[JS]

Ghostrider has a good alternative to permanently deleting them as a just in
case ....

Jim