Local Disk Low Space

[EazyGrandmaster]

Hello!

I have four Hard Drives, three are 2TB and one is an SSD which has Windows on and is 120GB. And contains files for Google, iTunes and other programs.

I have managed to change the directory for most programs, downloads and the My Documents folder along with My Pictures and the others to a second drive which is one of the 2TB drives. Which is called, Local Disk Two.. :/

I currently have 83.9MB free, never reaches 1GB and has filled up at one point.

I have shown hidden files and removed unwanted files, removed Windows Software Distribution.

I think I have made the second Local Disk the main Disk in Computer Management, but I don't think it has worked as programs with directories that have to be in the main Drive go to the SSD...

I am unsure on what to do.

Would be great if someone could help!

Windows 7

 

[USAFRet]

1. Please post a screencap of your Disk Management window.
2. What do you mean by this: "I think I have made the second Local Disk the main Disk in Computer Management"
How, exactly?

 

[Shaun o]

If you have not done a drive clean up for some time check how much space is being taken up by the temporary internet folder of windows if left for along time it can take terabytes of storage space, the same applies to any error reporting files or log files created in windows.

Right click on the drive that has only 83Mb of free space left on it.
Select properties.

In the next window select disk clean up if you have not performed a check for some time.

 

[EazyGrandmaster]

1. Please post a screencap of your Disk Management window.
2. What do you mean by this: "I think I have made the second Local Disk the main Disk in Computer Management"
How, exactly?

Hello! An image should be up there.. ^

I'm not sure... I think I tried to get the E drive to replace the C drive as the main drive... It did not work though.

 

[USAFRet]

OK...you simply have too much junk on your 120GB SSD.

I don't what you've tried to do with the E drive, but don't do that. Leave the SSD as the 'primary' drive.

So....delete some stuff off that SSD. Probably stuff in your Downloads folder thats just hanging around.
Once you get a little bit of free space, install and run WinDirStat

Once you get that, post a screencap of that here.

 

[EazyGrandmaster]

If you have not done a drive clean up for some time check how much space is being taken up by the temporary internet folder of windows if left for along time it can take terabytes of storage space, the same applies to any error reporting files or log files created in windows.

Right click on the drive that has only 83Mb of free space left on it.
Select properties.

In the next window select disk clean up if you have not performed a check for some time.

Hello! I have done the disk clean up, it has not helped. :/ I now have 732KB somehow.

 

[EazyGrandmaster]

OK...you simply have too much junk on your 120GB SSD.

I don't what you've tried to do with the E drive, but don't do that. Leave the SSD as the 'primary' drive.

So....delete some stuff off that SSD. Probably stuff in your Downloads folder thats just hanging around.
Once you get a little bit of free space, install and run WinDirStat

Once you get that, post a screencap of that here.

I have nothing in downloads. There is nothing that can be deleted.

 

[USAFRet]

OK...you simply have too much junk on your 120GB SSD.

I don't what you've tried to do with the E drive, but don't do that. Leave the SSD as the 'primary' drive.

So....delete some stuff off that SSD. Probably stuff in your Downloads folder thats just hanging around.
Once you get a little bit of free space, install and run WinDirStat

Once you get that, post a screencap of that here.

I have nothing in downloads. There is nothing that can be deleted.

Your C drive, the SSD, is full.
Delete something...anything...
Or possibly you have some malware that is filling it up with junk.

 

[EazyGrandmaster]

OK...you simply have too much junk on your 120GB SSD.

I don't what you've tried to do with the E drive, but don't do that. Leave the SSD as the 'primary' drive.

So....delete some stuff off that SSD. Probably stuff in your Downloads folder thats just hanging around.
Once you get a little bit of free space, install and run WinDirStat

Once you get that, post a screencap of that here.

I have nothing in downloads. There is nothing that can be deleted.

Your C drive, the SSD, is full.
Delete something...anything...
Or possibly you have some malware that is filling it up with junk.

Hello, I have 2.51GB free. .. But I will have to put the removed files back eventually.

 

[USAFRet]

OK, so install and run the above mentioned WinDirStat.
Highlight and run it ONLY on the C drive
Post the screencap here.

 

[EazyGrandmaster]

OK, so install and run the above mentioned WinDirStat.
Highlight and run it ONLY on the C drive
Post the screencap here.

Hello!
Here it is!

 

[USAFRet]

1. Your /Users/ folder is taking up 1/2 the drive. 60GB
2. Your hibernation file is taking up a further 12.4GB
3. You have 10GB of text docs. Move those to elsewhere.


1. So what is in your /Users/ folder? That large block of blue stuff.
(and no matter what anyone suggests, do NOT move that /Users/ folder to elsewhere)

2. Turn hibernation off.
Here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html


EDIT: I take that back on the hibernation file. I thought it was the large green thing to the left.
Instead, that seems to be an Apple sync.

 

[EazyGrandmaster]

1. Your /Users/ folder is taking up 1/2 the drive. 60GB
2. Your hibernation file is taking up a further 12.4GB
3. You have 10GB of text docs. Move those to elsewhere.


1. So what is in your /Users/ folder? That large block of blue stuff.
(and no matter what anyone suggests, do NOT move that /Users/ folder to elsewhere)

2. Turn hibernation off.
Here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html


EDIT: I take that back on the hibernation file. I thought it was the large green thing to the left.
Instead, that seems to be an Apple sync.

Ah! I have now removed those backups. They were phone backups. :/
I now have over 50GB free, I didn't think they would take up so much space.

Thanks for your help!

 

[USAFRet]

And you probably have some more cleanup to do, regarding that 60GB of /Users/ folder.

Bottom line...a 120GB SSD will work, but you have to be very diligent as to what is on it.

 

[mjslakeridge]

You can probably delete the 10GB of log files, or at least the older ones. And, as said above, 60GB in users folder means you have a lot of something in there that can probably be moved (photos, music, downloads)

 

[mjslakeridge]

very [/i]diligent as to what is on it.

On my Windows 8 computer, I only have a 74.5 GB HDD as my OS drive, 42.3GB used. I do regular cleanup. I noticed when I made some of my folders shareable to my other network computers it made a "Michael.V2" directory under users which takes up space and appears to be duplicates of the files in the "Michael" directory.

I have a Windows 8 Pro iso file 32bit and a 64 bit on the C:\ drive which could be moved, and also one phone backup file which could be moved. I like to keep the C:\ drive lean so my backups aren't huge.

 

[EazyGrandmaster]

You can probably delete the 10GB of log files, or at least the older ones. And, as said above, 60GB in users folder means you have a lot of something in there that can probably be moved (photos, music, downloads)

Have done that, thank you.