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procat1234

procat1234

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My C: drive have been full somehow in the past few months. As of right now, I only have 7.79GB of space remaining from the 149GB available. Sometimes, it randomly gets filled up to the point where there are only about 4.1GB of space remaining. I have a single 512GB M.2 SSD, split into a C: drive and a D: drive. Does anyone have any potential solutions for this problem?

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Why split? How much space is available on the D: drive?

Where is your virtual memory (pagefile) located? If the C: drive, move it to D:, assuming you have more space there.

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COLGeek said:
Why split? How much space is available on the D: drive?

Where is your virtual memory (pagefile) located? If the C: drive, move it to D:, assuming you have more space there.

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I have about 96GB in the D: Drive.

As to answer the question "Why split?", my dad bought this laptop for me back when I did not know a thing about computers. Probably so I don't mess around in the system files and delete something important.
 
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Go to disk cleanup, and select the clean up system files option. You might have Windows update files eating up storage. Moving page file to D, as mentioned earlier is also a good idea, short term. Honestly, I would look into getting more storage. You can get 2tb M.2 Nvme drives for under $100. Same for 2.5" sata drives, if you do not have any available M.2 slots.
 
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procat1234 said:
My C: drive have been full somehow in the past few months. As of right now, I only have 7.79GB of space remaining from the 149GB available. Sometimes, it randomly gets filled up to the point where there are only about 4.1GB of space remaining. I have a single 512GB M.2 SSD, split into a C: drive and a D: drive. Does anyone have any potential solutions for this problem?

Thanks in advance :)
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Is the optimize app set up proper?
 
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Fisrt thing to do would be to empty your trash folder. Can be filled with old files if you don't empty it on a regular basis. Then delete temporary file and old restore points. It's easy to fill up a few GB on Windows without even knowing it.

You could also back up everything you have on your D, then use something like Minitool to delete the partition and extend the C partition to occupy the whole drive. It's much easier and less time consuming than a Windows fresh install.
 
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JayGau said:
Fisrt thing to do would be to empty your trash folder. Can be filled with old files if you don't empty it on a regular basis. Then delete temporary file and old restore points. It's easy to fill up a few GB on Windows without even knowing it.

You could also back up everything you have on your D, then use something like Minitool to delete the partition and extend the C partition to occupy the whole drive. It's much easier and less time consuming than a Windows fresh install.
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Deleting the D partition will most likely break anything that has been installed to D:
 
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procat1234 said:
Unfortunately I installed my programs on the D: drive
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kanewolf said:
Deleting the D partition will most likely break anything that has been installed to D:
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Could the OP add a SSD and copy and paste everything off the "D" drive on to say an "E" drive. New SSD.

Than go into Disk Management and flip his old "D" drive to say "F" .

Restart and go back into Disk Management and take the new SSE from "E" to "D" and restart.

Everything stays the same with regedit and there as far as Windows is concerned everything is still on the "D" drive.

Than if all works out he can than get rid of the original partitioned "D" that should be now "F".

Than he can expand the "C" drive with no re install everything is the same.
 
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stonecarver said:
Could the OP add a SSD and copy and paste everything off the "D" drive on to say an "E" drive. New SSD.

Than go into Disk Management and flip his old "D" drive to say "F" .

Restart and go back into Disk Management and take the new SSE from "E" to "D" and restart.

Everything stays the same with regedit and there as far as Windows is concerned everything is still on the "D" drive.

Than if all works out he can than get rid of the original partitioned "D" that should be now "F".

Than he can expand the "C" drive with no re install everything is the same.
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A new SSD costs a significant portion of my laptop cost, maybe I should just upgrade my laptop at this point
 
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