Re: Low Disk space on C drive
- From: carolyn <carolyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:30:00 -0700
I will try moving the pagefile since this is the largest. I dont have system
restore set on D and only have 5% on C. I still think there is probably a
lot of files that I probably don't need, but don't know if I need them or not
- I have all documents and settings stuff going to D drive and moved the
exisitng that was on the C to the D, but still under documents and settings
there is a large amount of Application Data (which I have no idea what this
is) or if it can be moved to the D drive as well?
"Bob Harris" wrote:
(1) You could ask XP to move your pagefile. (Do not attempt to use cut and.
paste to move it!)
Instead, go to MyComputer, properties, advanced, performance settings,
advanced, virtual memory change. This should display all internal hard
drive partitions and the amount of pagefile on each, if any. Set the size
of the pagefile of C: to zero and that on D: to whatever you want, but 1Gig
or so is probably a good size, and D:\ sounds like it has space. Set the
min and the max pagefile to the same size. This will help prevent
fragmentation of the pagefile.
You will need to reboot to have these changes take effect.
(2) By default XP saves restore points, and that can be a good thing.
However, you could limit the space it uses for restore points.
Start, help and support, system restore, system restore settings. Select a
drive, such as C:. Then click settings. Pick the percent of that drive to
be used for system restore. I think that the default is 10%.
Note that you do not need system restore on non-system partitions, such as
your D:\ drive. The above steps will also provide you with an option to
turn off system restore. Just be sure to only do that on D:, not on C:, and
not on all drives. This will not help C:, but it might save some space on
D:.
(3) If all else fails, you could solve the space problem on C: by getting a
larger hard drive. Most PC shops that sell drives will also install them
and clone files from old to new. In the case of C:, they would also make
sure that the PC boots successfully. Depending on the age of the PC you
might need to restrict yourself to drives no larger than 127 Gig, even if
you have SP-2 or higher for XP. Hard drives of this size are fairly cheap;
also look for sales.
"carolyn" <carolyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I continue to lose disk space it seems like every day on my C Drive. I
have
done all of the instructions on some of the other postings - cleaned out
temp
files, set system restore to minimal, ran CC Cleaner, ran disk cleaner,
all
files created, ran virus, adware etc.. Documents and settings are going to
my
larger D drive, but I still cannot see much of a difference. I have 13GB
on
C drive with on 2.44GB left. D has plenty over 120GB and all my photos
and
music etc.. is on the D drive. Most all of the programs that I could load
to
D drive I have except for my printer which supposedly has to be on the C
drive.
I ran a search to see if there are dup files and there are quite a few
files
that are the same size, but I don't know if they can be deleted, it seems
some of them are in different folders. In addition my pagefile.sys, by
far
the largest file is 786,432KB.
I am not very savvy on the computer but need some step by step advice as
to
how to gain more disk space - I tried downloading Sequoia View but didn't
understand it once I tried to run it, so I removed it.
Help :)
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