C drive space
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
Visual Studio, by default, houses it's temp files/build files etc on C... if you do some large development on there, you might find a few gig taken up in there... Also, if you have a large pagefile allocated on C:, that might be taking up space... Of course, if you haven't removed the Office installation files from C: that will also chew some up... You really need to free some space though - you are in dangerous territory!!
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
Amarnath S wrote:
Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space?
Yes. Each time you update, Windows saves information to allow you to recover from a disaster, which often happens after Windows updates. If you survive an update (rare) you can delete the recovery file. By the way, next time Windows kills your system I'd consider putting all your Visual Studio and Office programs on the D: drive and try to save C: for the OS itself. You won't see a performance hit if the drives are physically in the same machine, but you might experience an improvement. The swap file is on the root drive, by default, and it helps a lot to give it as much space as you can.
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
Definitely check your swap file, as was suggested by Damian. Move it to your d drive until you get this under control. Freeze its size on D and you should be able to continue fixing the machine even if you get even more full on C. I keep mine on its own partition. Makes for a very stable machine, even with lots of ram abuse. Good luck. I hope you don't have to do a rebuild.
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
Check system restore settings and how much space it takes
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
Thanks for all your responses. SequioaView is superb. It has pinpointed big (huge ones for me now). There are two big ones - C:\pagefile.sys, and C:\hiberfil.sys (hidden files) - together, they occupy 3.5 gigs. Further, there are a number of *.msp files (about 50 of them, with an average size of 125 MB each) within C:\Windows\Installer. Googling on whether it is safe to delete them, and how ... Meanwhile, I freed some 2 gigs of space :-)
modified on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:30 AM
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Thanks for all your responses. SequioaView is superb. It has pinpointed big (huge ones for me now). There are two big ones - C:\pagefile.sys, and C:\hiberfil.sys (hidden files) - together, they occupy 3.5 gigs. Further, there are a number of *.msp files (about 50 of them, with an average size of 125 MB each) within C:\Windows\Installer. Googling on whether it is safe to delete them, and how ... Meanwhile, I freed some 2 gigs of space :-)
modified on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:30 AM
DO NOT DELETE THEM..... pagefile.sys is your memory swap file Hiberfil.sys is the hibernation file To adjust the pagefile, go to System then Advanced then virtual memory. To remove hiberfil.sys, switch off hibernation under Power Options.
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DO NOT DELETE THEM..... pagefile.sys is your memory swap file Hiberfil.sys is the hibernation file To adjust the pagefile, go to System then Advanced then virtual memory. To remove hiberfil.sys, switch off hibernation under Power Options.
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Damian, Thanks for your cautionary note. No - I have not deleted them. I deleted some other huge files within My Documents (I never knew that they existed, until SequoiaView told me). Now, I have 3.28 GB free - this is really enough breathing space for me :-D
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Thanks for all your responses. SequioaView is superb. It has pinpointed big (huge ones for me now). There are two big ones - C:\pagefile.sys, and C:\hiberfil.sys (hidden files) - together, they occupy 3.5 gigs. Further, there are a number of *.msp files (about 50 of them, with an average size of 125 MB each) within C:\Windows\Installer. Googling on whether it is safe to delete them, and how ... Meanwhile, I freed some 2 gigs of space :-)
modified on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:30 AM
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I found it out.
C:\Windowsis the culprit, occupying more than 10 Gigs. Deleting now... :cool: On a serious note, just buy a hard disk with a reasonably good amount of space.It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
I found it out. C:\Windows is the culprit, occupying more than 10 Gigs.
OK.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
On a serious note, just buy a hard disk with a reasonably good amount of space.
No, no: do not feed the troll... :rolleyes:
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
I found it out. C:\Windows is the culprit, occupying more than 10 Gigs.
OK.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
On a serious note, just buy a hard disk with a reasonably good amount of space.
No, no: do not feed the troll... :rolleyes:
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]Actually, a few of his articles are pretty decent. But, I have no idea what drives him to ask this sort of questions (there was one yesterday as well). :)
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Actually, a few of his articles are pretty decent. But, I have no idea what drives him to ask this sort of questions (there was one yesterday as well). :)
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
I suppose you missed the troll. Hint: he lives in
C::laugh:If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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I suppose you missed the troll. Hint: he lives in
C::laugh:If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]I get it now. :laugh:
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Actually, a few of his articles are pretty decent. But, I have no idea what drives him to ask this sort of questions (there was one yesterday as well). :)
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
Is this question too insensible? Too dumb? I know not. I think one must have an attitude to learn from anyone, and that "there is no stupid question". One must have the humility to learn from even an ant.
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Is this question too insensible? Too dumb? I know not. I think one must have an attitude to learn from anyone, and that "there is no stupid question". One must have the humility to learn from even an ant.
I could have phrased it better. I wanted to convey that you've written some pretty good articles, but don't participate in the discussions as such. May be you should get involved into our discussions more, and you'll know what kind of rubbish we are into a barbaric herd of community we are fetishes we have stuff we like to talk about here? :)
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
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There's a little known utility included with all versions of Windows designed just for this purpose - it's called Windows Explorer, you can click on each directory, check the properties and see which is using all the space - it's amazing!!
Yes - Windows Explorer is a great tool, and that's what told me that I have less space. Unfortunately, I need to visit each folder - subfolder - subsubfolder - ... to know where exactly space is being consumed; and that's what I needed a tool for...
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My C drive has a paltry 1.3 GB free; out of 50 GB allocated for C. Not sure where space is getting eaten up. Did a disk cleanup, with no spectacular results. I just have Windows XP, Vis Studio 2008 and Office 2003; all data is on D drive. Are the periodic Windows Updates eating up precious space? All ideas are welcome.
Not sure if it is the same on XP, but on Vista and W7, the Windows/Winsxs directory can eat up some space. Anymore though, with drive storage so cheap (I just bought a 500 GB drive for around $60), I would not run less that 120GB for my primary C partition (mine is actually 133). There are too many temp things that get thrown in there and not deleted and also the parts of programs that get installed on C even though you install on another drive. Too cheap of cost for more storage to bother spending time trying to keep the size down :)
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