C: drive low on storage

[rizzo183]

I only have 1.8GB of 39GB left on my C: drive. Last night i had 9GB of free space. Here's what happened:
1. Initially i had 500MB of free storage on C:.
2. I added a second hard 1TB hard drive.
3. I started my computer, and it tried to boot from the new HDD, which was unpartitioned.
4. Restarted my computer
5. Chose the correct boot device from boot menu
6. Voila the C: drive suddenly had 9GB of free space
7. But after another reboot, the free space was back down to 1.8GB

What can i do to get that 9GB free space back? Because obviously it's some sort of temporary files that are taking up that space. I have turned off backup and cleared the temp folder. Any other suggestions?

core-i5 2400
8GB DDR3 RAM
Geforce GTX760 (2GB)

UPDATE: It's actually my pagefile that's causing the fluctuation in free space. I still need more than 1.5GB of free space. Any way i can relocate the pagefile? And if i reduce it, how much exactly is "safe" ?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there rizzo183,

Do you mean that you have disabled System Restore? If so, you can delete all previous restore points as well. Check this out: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5482/make-system-restore-use-less-space-in-windows-7/
You can run Disk Cleanup and analyse disk space with some third party tool as wel. Check this out: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD

 

[rizzo183]

Hi there rizzo183,

Do you mean that you have disabled System Restore? If so, you can delete all previous restore points as well. Check this out: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5482/make-system-restore-use-less-space-in-windows-7/
You can run Disk Cleanup and analyse disk space with some third party tool as wel. Check this out: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD

I've done all these. Only freed up 400MB of space.

 

[Hekarizblade]

Use tuneup utilities and go to free space tab it will help you for cleaning big sizes

 

[hang-the-9]

Why are you using a 40 gig drive with a Core i5 system? Clone that drive to the 1TB drive, use that as the main drive. After the clone you can go into Disk Manager and expand the free space to fill the drive as you will end up with only a 40 gig usable space system after the clone.

 

[rizzo183]

Why are you using a 40 gig drive with a Core i5 system?

Yeah that was a bad call. It was 2 years ago and i only had 4GB of RAM. Didn't think i'd need anymore space on C:\. Cause now i know, it's my pagefile that's causing this fluctuation in free space. Now that it's 8GB of RAM, the page file has gotten bigger too.

After the clone you can go into Disk Manager and expand the free space to fill the drive as you will end up with only a 40 gig usable space system after the clone.

I didn't get this last bit. I don't know about cloning either, but i'll google that.

 

[hang-the-9]

Why are you using a 40 gig drive with a Core i5 system?

Yeah that was a bad call. It was 2 years ago and i only had 4GB of RAM. Didn't think i'd need anymore space on C:\. Cause now i know, it's my pagefile that's causing this fluctuation in free space. Now that it's 8GB of RAM, the page file has gotten bigger too.

After the clone you can go into Disk Manager and expand the free space to fill the drive as you will end up with only a 40 gig usable space system after the clone.

I didn't get this last bit. I don't know about cloning either, but i'll google that.

Cloning will enable you to copy your full disk contents to the new drive, so you don't have to re-install everything. It will wipe the destination drive, so if you have anything on there you'd have to back it up to somewhere else first.

Look up clonezilla.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Until you can get a larger boot drive, here is how to move your page file to another drive.

http://superuser.com/questions/237813/how-can-i-move-the-page-file-to-another-physical-disk-location