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Title: Almost full c:drive
Post by: MikeDavies on November 26, 2009, 14:20

Hi, hope someone can help.

My daughter has an Acer 5315 laptop using Vista basic.

It has two internal drives c: 40Gb and d: also 40 Gb.

The C: drive is says its almost full but going thru the folders/files I can only find approx 24Gb including 16Gb for Vista. I have set it to show hidden files.

Any ideas what is clogging up this drive?

Many thanks in advance

Mike

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: Simon on November 26, 2009, 14:32

Hi Mike,

Someone will be along to help soon, but in the meantime, have you cleared out the temp files and recycle bin?

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: MikeDavies on November 26, 2009, 14:46

Yes, and carried out a disc cleanup etc.

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: GillE on November 26, 2009, 15:04

There's a handy free little program called SequoiaView (http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/) which will give you a pictorial representation of just what is on the HDD.

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: Rik on November 26, 2009, 15:31

Check for memory dumps, hyberfil.sis and the size of the page file, Mike.

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: MikeDavies on November 26, 2009, 16:07

Thanks everyone for your inputs, I'll try them out and let you know how I get on

Mike

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: Baz on November 26, 2009, 18:21

will the drives just be ONE drive with TWO partitions. My wifes is like that.Vista is on C I think and all data on D

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: Rik on November 26, 2009, 18:32

I'd bet on it, Baz.

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: MikeDavies on November 27, 2009, 10:25

Thanks everyone, managed to retrieve approx 7 Gb with your suggestions. Very useful programme that SequiaView!

thanks once again

Mike

Title: Re: Almost full c:drive
Post by: Rik on November 27, 2009, 10:26

Glad you're sorted, Mike. Windows does like to eat hard drives. ;)