Some things to check;
Clean out your %windir%\Temp, and \Documents and Settings\%username%\Local
Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary Internet Files, and History.
Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one and use it. You could use
Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say files greater than 5mB and
then decide if they're needed. Check the %windir% directory for a
$NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your current service pack is stable
and you don't anticipate backing down, you can delete the dir. Also check
for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp (both, by default should be in
the %windir% directory) you can delete these unless your going to send them
to the application vendor, or Microsoft for troubleshooting purposes. Other
options are; moving the pagefile to one of the other drives, uninstall your
programs that are installed in C:\Program Files and reinstall them to
D:\Program Files If you have a lot of local user profiles stored, you can
move them, see this article for info on this.
How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/4/70.ASP
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
John Tisch said:
Sorry, I meant to include what the chkdsk results were:
2096450 KB total disk space.
1528190 KB in 11103 files.
3672 KB in 873 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
71536 KB in use by the system.
12544 KB occupied by the log file.
493052 KB available on disk.
2048 bytes in each allocation unit.
1048225 total allocation units on disk.
246526 allocation units available on disk.
- John
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Every file and directory listing (no matter what size) takes up at least one
cluster. Slack space is the area between the end of the file and the end of
the cluster. It can be calculated roughly by taking 1/2 of the drive's
allocation unit (cluster size) times the number of files, this is the
average wasted space. If you have a lot of small files then the wasted space
figure could be larger.
From a command prompt at the root of the drive in question;
chkdsk
to find out your cluster size (allocation unit)
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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
plonker said:
ok here is my problem... i have a small hd (2 gb dedicated
to just having windows on it ... now it tells m its full (
1 % remaing) but if i selet to show all the hiden folders
and selet every thing in the root directory it tells me
that the total of all my files is 1,15 gb and the space it
takes on the disc is 1,3 gb but that leaves 700 mb
unacounted for ... how cn i make this space free agen ?
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