Drive C is full but it shouldn't be.

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by mahmood, Sep 29, 2006.

  1. mahmood

    mahmood Geek Trainee

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    My drive C is 7.8 GB. I install all the programs on drive D but most of the time more than 5GB of drive C is full.

    I recently keep getting the message that my drive C has not sufficient free space for Windows XP. I checked the drive to see what fills the drive but I couldn't.

    when I click on drive C icon on my computer I see only 217 MB free space out of 7.8GB but When I select all the files and folders on drive C and check the size by rightclick > properties it is only 3GB.

    What do you think fills my drive and what should I do?
     
  2. Karanislove

    Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv

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    Do you have any big file loaded on your desktop??? or under My Doccuments, Music etc.... Also right click on Programs folder under C:/ drive and see how much space its taking..
     
  3. mahmood

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    Aren't my documents and descktop files on the C? I selected all the files and folders on drive C and the total size was about 3G.
    By the way, all files on my documents and desktop adds to only 10M.
     
  4. Karanislove

    Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv

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    What do you get when you right click on the whole C drive and in properties..?
    Also, if you are doing by selecting files and folders then I think there are some hidden folders/files which you need to unhide to look at their properties. For that, go to MyComputer > tools > folderOptions > Under View Tab > Select Unhide Files and folder.....
     
  5. Rusty S

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    Lol, similair problem here. My C: apperently uses 4.54 GB out of 9.30GB. When I select all the files in it, they total to 2.5GB.I install all my programs / whatever on a seperat 40GB Hard Disk... Windows has the entire C: for itself.

    Anyways, I think the rest is used up by the pagefile, which Im pretty sure windows doesn't recognize when you select all the folders. My Page file is 1152mb, and I also set a cache of 1024mb in firefox. I think that the pagefile, and possibly internet cache are responsible... but im to lazy to do the math ;)
     
  6. mahmood

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    I unhided all files but still the same.

    If I right click on drive C icon, I can see that the drive is about full but when I open drive C and select all files and rightclick > properties only 3G of 7.8 is full so I cannot find out which files has filled up the drive. :confused:
     
  7. edijs

    edijs Programmer

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    seen such things myself. try to download some specialized computer programs to clean your HD + the registry. After cleaning, defragment it with windowses native defragmenting utility or some other popular third party software...

    May I suggest EasyCleaner?
     
  8. mahmood

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    OK, I downloaded EasyCleaner and found out that the problem is with pagefile. Now what do I do? Can I and is it safe to delete pagefile?

    EDIT: The problem seems to have been solved now. I reduce the size of page file and voila, everything is ok now.
     
  9. Yuchao719

    Yuchao719 Geek

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    Which Windows version do you use?
     
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