C drive full, permanent solution?

[Charles_Design]

Hi there,

I stupidly bought a 125gb SSD for my C drive, thinking it would be enough.

It's now completely full, what would be the easiest fix for this? Hopefully without having to reinstall windows?

I would of course buy a new drive.

Thanks,
Charles

 

[Karadjgne]

If you do not have a hdd to use as mass storage, get one. 1Tb WD blue or Seagate barracuda run @ $50. Either uninstall anything you really don't need on C: and reinstall on E: or just move any media over to E: It's very important for PC speed to maintain @15-20% of space on C: as Windows uses that space for temp files and cache, so maxing out will drastically slow your pc down, everything from boot to shutdown.

 

[plaintuts]

Delete some files in the ssd.....

 

[Charles_Design]

If you do not have a hdd to use as mass storage, get one. 1Tb WD blue or Seagate barracuda run @ $50. Either uninstall anything you really don't need on C: and reinstall on E: or just move any media over to E: It's very important for PC speed to maintain @15-20% of space on C: as Windows uses that space for temp files and cache, so maxing out will drastically slow your pc down, everything from boot to shutdown.

Thanks for speedy response, I forgot to mention I do have a 1 Tb HDD for mass storage.
I've deleted all that I can on the C drive.

So I guess if I buy another SSD can I plug it in, reinstall software on it and expect the same speed that I get from the software installed on my C drive?

I haven't moved any software to the HDD because of this.

My mistake was indeed not taking into account the pagefile.sys.

 

[USAFRet]

pagefile - reduce it
hibernation - get rid of it completely http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html
check your System Restore point settings

 

[Karadjgne]

My c: drive is 128Gb Samsung SSD. F:, G:, H: is partitioned 1Tb. Same as you. I only keep OS and speed important stuff on C: everything else goes on the hdd. Since OS is on C: It's all used at SSD speed, soon as it's opened one time, as any files are loaded to Windows cache. I see no long load times after the 1st load. Currently 78Gb used on c:

 

[barto]

I'd like to add, the primary programs used on an SSD are the ones you use most often or benefit from the increased speed. For example, Microsoft office should be on the HDD, it's not going to benefit from the increased speed. Games only matter if you can benefit from the load times. SSDs don't aid in frame rates.

It really comes down to management on your end.

 

[Charles_Design]

Thanks all for your help, looks like I'll start moving some software to my HDD.

 

[gopher1369]

Move Windows Restore to the harddrive
Turn off Hibernate
Move your Recycle Bin to the harddrive
Run Windows Cleanup, but make sure you choose the "clean up system files" option, windows update often leave huge files behind.
Move your pagefile to the harddrive.

This will easily get you back 10Gb of space.

Also Disktective is your friend: http://www.disktective.com/