Re: 40Gb Hard Drive Low on Free Space
- From: "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:02:13 -0000
Alan
Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View,
Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden
files and folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating
system files " is unchecked. You may need to scroll down to
see the second item. You should also make certain that the
box before "Hide extensions for known file types" is not
checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details
is selected and then select View, Choose Details and check
before Name, Type, Total Size, and Free Space.
To increase you free space on your XP partition select Start,
All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest
System Restore points? Restore points can be quite large.
You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your
Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files.
Whenever you remove redundant files you should always
run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter. You will
most likely have problems running Disk Defragmenter if
there is less than 15% free disk space in your XP partition.
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to
System Restore on your C partition which is over generous.
I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click your My Computer
icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. Place
the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find
the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and
exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply
and OK and exit.
If your hard drive is formatted as NTFS another potential
gain arises with your operating system on your C drive.
In the Windows Directory of your C partition you will have
some Uninstall folders in your Windows folder
typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and
$NtUninstallKB282010$ etc.
These files may be compressed or not compressed. If
compressed the text of the folder name appears in blue
characters. If not compressed you can compress them.
Right click on each folder and select Properties,
General, Advanced and check the box before Compress
contents to save Disk Space. On the General Tab you
can see the amount gained by deducting the size on disk
from the size. Folder compression is only an option on
a NTFS formatted drive / partition.
Another default setting on a large drive which could be
wasteful is that for temporary internet files especially if
you do not store offline copies on disk. The default
allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude
to offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%.
In Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options,
General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make
the change. At the same time look at the number of
days history is held.
The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 %
of drive. On your drive 5% should be sufficient. In
Windows Explorer place the cursor on your Recycle
Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and
move the slider from 10% to 5%.
You can turn off hibernation if it is on and you
don't use it.
When you hibernate your computer, Windows
saves the contents of the system's memory to the
hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys
file will always equal the amount of physical memory
in your system. If you don't use the hibernate feature
and want to recapture the space that Windows uses
for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:
- Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go
to Start, Settings, Control Panel, and click Power
Options).
- Select the Hibernate tab, clear the "Enable
hibernation" check box, then click OK; although you
might think otherwise, selecting Never under the
"System hibernates" option on the Power Schemes
tab doesn't delete the hiberfil.sys file.
- Windows will remove the "System hibernates"
option from the Power Schemes tab and delete
the hiberfil.sys file.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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Stourport, England
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"allan" <alanmews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi
My PC, Celeron, 256Mb RAM, running Windows XP and a minimal
configuration of MS Office 2003, with a 40Gb Hard drive (says so on
the Drive).
Problem is its running out of space, its showing only just over 2Gb of
space on Properties.
Anything I do it runs out of space or tells me 'you are low on free
space'.
Will a full re-format or FDISK to partition the drive solve the
problem (don't know too much about doing that as its been so long),
even though it shows only the one C: Drive?
Tried to find other Drives but can't see anything.
Otherwise, the PC runs well with very little problems.
Any suggestions, other than buy a new Hard Drive, would be greatly
appreciated.
Many thanks.
Alan
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