Running out of disk space on C:!!

willshow21

The technical manager at my company segmented my hard drive when he reinstalled my OS (XP Pro) after it crashed.....

Unfortunately, he seemed to underestimate the rate at which XP grows with all it's patches etc, so i'm quickly running out of space.

How do I free up memory or is there any other solution? I've done the whole Disk Cleanup and File Compression.....

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Will

techie_2006

Buy a 2nd HD.

gibo_ie

have you deleted the patch uninstall folders in windows directory?
also the temp and temporary folders in your user profile
Also if you use hibernate the file is probably on your C drive, this can be moved as can any swap file you may be using.

willshow21

I've loads of space on my other hard drive (E:), it's just XP is on C:, and it doesnt really have enough room to manouver if you know what i mean. Besides it's a laptop and it'd have to be an external HD, which isn't practical.

willshow21

thanks gibo....not quite sure what you mean though...whats the hibernate file etc???

Oriel

Delete anything in your temp files and internet temp.

Stephen

If this is a company PC, you should go back to him with it and get him to sort it out for you.
Where I work, we do a similar partitioning job. Main C: partition, about 10 gigs. 5-6GB on small disks. Hidden E: partition with our rebuild-this-pc utilities about 2gb. - rest of disk.
Users are told to keep all their stuff on the network drives we provide, but if they must keep things on the local disk, to put them on D, as if we rebuild the PC the D partition will be unharmed. For this reason, we have windows configured to put documents and settings for all users on D as well.

Hagar

The system fills up with stars and full stops over time.
Try del *.* that'll help...:D

Don't do it. I was only joking.

I hope he knows how to read spoilers. Oh well

willshow21

Stephen unfortunately the tech manager works out of india now. I'd like to learn how to do this myself though....

techie_2006

Hagar wrote:

The system fills up with stars and full stops over time.
Try del *.* that'll help...:D

Don't do it. I was only joking.

I hope he knows how to read spoilers. Oh well

LOL......

willshow21

Hagar wrote:

The system fills up with stars and full stops over time.
Try del *.* that'll help...:D

Don't do it. I was only joking.

I hope he knows how to read spoilers. Oh well

Yeah there'll be plenty free space then!

gibo_ie

willshow21 wrote:

thanks gibo....not quite sure what you mean though...whats the hibernate file etc???

On your C: drive file is hiberfil.sys but you need to change the location in th eControl Panel. If this is a work laptop i am not telling you how to do it i am afraid. Even if the IT is based in India they need to do it as you can seriously mess up your machine if you do something wrong.
Just watch what they do for future times...

willshow21

Well gibo I own the company so i'm sure you can tell me.... if i **** up i dont mind taking the blame!

willshow21

i dont actaully use hibernate anyway....

l337

so,to summarise... you OWN a company and decided to outsource your tech support to India, a plan that has clearly failed because you now have tech problems that are not being fixed. So instead of rectifying the problem (hiring people that are capable of fixing it) you are looking for free advice from tecchie people on the internet (the same tecchie people that could potentially fill your IT position if the job was availible in Ireland)

Stephen

heh, well then -- does the IT dept not have any remote administration software on the PC?

If you don't use hibernate, disable it in the power options control panel. This should delete the hiberfil.sys, which is normally equal in size to the amount of RAM you have - so if you have a gig of ram it will free up considerable space.

ShiverinEskimo

l337 wrote:

so,to summarise... you OWN a company and decided to outsource your tech support to India, a plan that has clearly failed because you now have tech problems that are not being fixed. So instead of rectifying the problem (hiring people that are capable of fixing it) you are looking for free advice from tecchie people on the internet (the same tecchie people that could potentially fill your IT position if the job was availible in Ireland)

My god he asked a simple question - take it easy man.

See about downloading partition magic or the like - this allows you to remove partitions without affecting data **I THINK** - i've never done it but its what I was told to do when i queried about installing linux on an unpartitioned drive without affecting my windows installation.

Capt'n Midnight

get spacemonger and use it to see what is using up the space

move stuff to
change swapfile to point at
same with IE cache
( compress the drive if NTFS )
uninstall apps and reinstall them in \program files
delete unused profiles in system

smeggle

*coughs* Partition Magic?

Capt'n Midnight

smeggle wrote:

*coughs* Partition Magic?

you need a license to use it for company PC's - there are free alternatives

Best to talk to the IT dept..

smeggle

oops yeah forgot that me teh bads

As Captain Midnight reminded - you'll need a licence....

commited

Do you have full Admin privaledges?
It certainly limits your options if you dont...
Turn off System Restore is a good first step.
Show all hidden files - Go to C:\Windows and delete all the things that begin with "$NtUninstallKB......"
TuneUp Utilities 2006 is good too - found 2.2GB of space on my mates PC!

Karoma

Reduce the % of reserved space for the Recycle bin and just move stuff to the other partitions. For all it's worth, System Restore can still come in handy sometimes (Unless you have Imaging software or another,better, solution).

Really, you want to increase the size of the c: partition. But I'd strongly recommend that you seek the assistance of someone with some experience in doing so, or if you insist: make a complete backup of all partitions first.

bungeecork

All sounds like a bit of a dogs dinner to me.

I'd move anything important onto a memory stick and from there onto another PC just for backup, then wipe the laptops hard drive completely and reinstall Windows using the disks provided with the laptop or better still using a corporate image, with no other partitions, just C:

Then I would educate the user/manager/company owner to save all of their data to a non-laptop location that is regularly backed up. All work data can be critical to the business. Saving it on a desktop C: drive is reckless enough, but saving it to a laptop C: drive is downright dangerous.

Hagar

Much as I am loathe to concur with Corkmen, I concur with our southern friend.