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low disc space

  • 27-11-2010 10:19PM
    #1
    sohappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭


    i keep getting a pop up saying low disc space, I have a dell inspiron running vista, The drives are

    OS (C) 129 gb free of 285 gb
    OS (F) 150 MB free of 2.49 gb
    Recovery (D) 5.47 gb free of 9.99 gb

    How do I fix this?


Comments

  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    move stuff from drive F: to somewhere else

    use a program like the free version of spacemonger or sequoiaview to see what is taking up the space


  • #3
    sohappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭sohappy


    dont think i can its the OS. operating system..vista.


  • #4
    sohappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭sohappy


    i would be greatful for any step by step help to fix this, is it standard to have the operating system on its own partition?


  • #5
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,408 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    its not really standard, you can do it though, its a small enough partition normally the os is on the c:\ empty your recycle bin too. some apps write to application data when used and there could be temp files stored on the drive your os is on. prob your page file is fairly big too.


  • #6
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,194 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Yeesh, I'm not too impressed with whoever thought 2.5GB would be enough space for an OS install...

    Anyway, you can fix this easily enough - but not with tools in Windows. My suggestion would be to back up any data first of all, then take off ~20GB from your C: drive and add that to your F: drive.

    On a step-by-step basis, you'd need to do something like:
    • Back up ANYTHING you want to keep from the existing setup, preferably by taking a snapshot of the disk with something like Acronis True Image. (You can skip this step, but it's at your own risk).
    • Run Checkdisk on the partitions in question, then defragment them.
    • Download Gparted and burn a CD.
    • Boot from the CD.
    • Resize the 285GB partition and take it down to ~265GB, and apply the change.
    • Resize the 2.5GB partition and expand it to fill all available free space on the disk. Apply the change.
    • On rebooting, pop your Vista installation disc into the drive and follow the instructions here.

    The important thing to note here is that you need bootable Vista installation media - this process won't work if you've only got a recovery partition on your computer, or no installation discs at all.


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  • #7
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    sohappy wrote: »
    dont think i can its the OS. operating system..vista.

    http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/download_sequoiaview/
    Operating System Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT4 / 2000 / XP/Windows 7
    Diskspace 1.4 MB

    http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/# - click on the free tab and it's near the bottom or you could use the 30 day version


    The operating system includes temp files, user profiles, prefetch , unused service packs and other junk

    use ccleaner to give you a bit of elbow room - it will say if your OS is on C: or D:

    suprised that the OS is not on C:, sounds like someone reinstalled the OS on the bootable recovery partition (D: sounds like the recovery image that one would burn to DVD ymmv)


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