i reformatted my whole c drive and then clean installed vista ultimate onto it and at start i had 268Gb out of 274Gb. now its gone to 243Gb and i've only installed a couple of programs and when i highlight everything in the c drive it says its 7.38GB. I've Defragged it a lot of times and the space keeps on going down.
View 8 RepliesI have Vista Home Premium running on a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with a 120 GB hard drive. I keep getting the low disc space on C: error message, and when I click on My Computer, it says I only have 189 MB of free space on the C: drive. However, when I click on the C drive, highlight all the folders, and click Properties, it says I am using 26 GB of space next to "size on disk". I tried to solve this problem about a week ago by moving 30 gigs of music to an external hard drive, but the C drive has filled up again even though I have not added anything to the C drive. I've also tried using disk cleanup and defrag, but that hasn't worked.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Vista Home Premium and one of my hard drives is not showing all the space that it use to. The hard drive in question is a 1 Tb hdd and was working fine in XP as were the other HDD's. When I installed Vista, all the other disk's worked fine except for this one. I have gone into Computer Management and it shows the drive as having 859 Gb of unallocated space that I cannot format. I am unable to create a New Simple Volume or any other volume types for this drive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI m using vista business. I have a problem my c drive is 23.44 gb out of which on 12.75 g.b i m able to use. the rest is showing free space in disk management now what do i do?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI would like to get vista to use the login style used in Win 2000 ... ctrl+alt+del gives a login box in which to enter the user name and password.
Win XP Pro had this option also, but, it's default was like vista (pictures showing all users).
I have been able to get the ctrl+alt+del part but instead of the login box I still get pictures.
Hey again I???m here as a new user of vista and Im going trough a bunch of problems. As for now one day I ran the diskeeper and some how I lost 45 GB of hard disk space for no real reason. After that I ran it again but it didnt help, I don???t know if it has to do with the diskeeper or maybe some other type of problem with the computer applications.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a total of around 196 GB of hard disk space in my c:// drive and no data in it at all instead of my operating system(vista) and other installation files. every 1 or 2 days, my free hard disk space on this drive becomes less even though i am not saving anything at all on this drive, The total of all the files including all hidden system file is also different(Less) than the total total used space on my hard-disk. I have had a disk cleanup, cleaned internet files and cookies.The automatic file back up system in system tools is also turned off. The problem has already consumed nearly 15 - 17 gb of my hard disk space and still continuing to do so as i keep using my computer,.
View 4 Replies View Relatedgetting Vista to work with my Garmin etrex and Memorymap. I have bought a new cable because it came with a disk to ensure I had the correct driver, still doesn't work. The reason I have come to this site is my computer presented me with a choice, it said that I should back up my hard drive, to ensure that I wouldn't lose any info in the event of a breakdown. I clicked yes and was told after a time that there was not enough disk space. When I looked at my hard drive page, the recovery drive (E) is full and now in red!
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a windows 7 Samsung NC110 with 240gig HD and 1 gig of RAM. I have noticed that my D: is showing that i only have 10.7 gig free of 117GIG. I have checked through the drive and I do not have anything like 106 gig installed on that partition. On my c: i have 46.1 ree of 100GIG.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI m trying to reinstall windows vista and when im trying to delete all the partitions, it still shows that i have 3 unpartitioned space in which 2 unpartitioned space are empty without any space and i cannot delete them. However, i can still install windows on the 1st unpartitioned space which is of 160 GB.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a 6 month old Toshiba Satellite laptop with VISTA. It has been little used but the Toshiba TEMPRO alert system is now telling me that drive: D has reached 75% of capacity - only 33gb free on a 149gb drive. I have no idea what this 110 gb has been used for nor can I "find" Drive D.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a inspiron 530s computer, it has two hard disk drives. The os (c drive and the recovery (ddrive. The os drive is only about 25% full but the recovery drive is 99% full. It keeps telling me my backup failed that i need to free up space, but i don't know what to do or what to delete.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am running a Dell with 288Gb on the hard drive. Currently Vista is showing 70Gb used whereas I can only account for a max of 20Gb and most of that appears to be used by Windows itself. Anyone know why this might be? I have reasonable experience with pc's and regularly clear out temps etc but cannot find this missing space.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am a relatively unexperienced windows vista user using windows home premium at 32 bit on an acer aspire 6920 notebook. I noticed that occassionaly my disk space would drop dramatically without me doing anything. 100s of mbs would just disappear for no reason, so probably being stupid i decided to run the disk fragmenter to try and fix the problem. BUT to my horror i was shocked to find that the disk fragmenter began to eat up my hard disk space big style. I went from 79.7GB to 72.5GB in just over an hour. What the hell happened and can it be fixed? can i get my disk space back? i thought the disk fragmenter was supposed to help your computer not rob it. does anyone else have this problem and can someone please help me? im kinda desparate, i cant believe it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a 320 GB HD. When I checked it, I only have 25 gigs of free space. However I can only find about 180 gigs of files/data. Any ideas as to how I lost 100 gigs of available of space? Just a couple of weeks ago I checked and I had plently of space. No recent installs, only recent changes are the removal of Mcaffee monitoring software and running JkDfrag.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a Fujitsu Siemens laptop with 120GB hard drive. My problem is, there is only 78.2GB space left on it. I have hardly anything on it really so I am wondering where is has all gone. I have turned off the system restore and then turned it back on. I have run CCleaner, defragmented, done disk cleanup, so I dont know what to do next. I ran TreeSize and according to that there is 13,243.3MB taken up in the Windows folder and 10,099.7MB taken up in the Users folder, all the rest of the folder dont have that much in. Can anyone shed any light on this problem and tell me if I can safely delete any of these files to free up some disk space.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an acer laptop which for various and assorted reasons I want to throw out the window. Problem of course is that I can't afford another laptop so I am forced to make the best of it. My main source of irritation right now is that I am constantly running low on disk space.........
View 7 Replies View RelatedI run Vista home premium x64 and kept getting a low memory msg. for my recovery disk (D). I used vssadmin.cmd under administrative privaledge to increase D by 200GB. I still get the Low Disk Space warning and all backups fail due to lack of memory. What is the fix?
View 7 Replies View Relatedlast week i was recoding some video's using Nero's Recode program (sidenote worked great) but now my 100 gig laptop on has 2 gigs of space left from the original 60 gigs free space. where did it go?? the video files have been deleted, i've used the disc clean-up program to remove the temp files and used the registry to enable Pagefiles removeal from another post of this forum. that clean up some on the space i now have 20gigs free space but i still am missing 40 more gigs that i have before i starting the recodeing.
in my disk de-fragmenter is shows me that i have a huge "yellow" portion of paging files still left and by just guessing it should be that extra 40 gigs just by seeing the size of the "yellow" bar.
how do i get rid of these "paging files" and how do i reclaim my lost space?
So i just got my laptop its a compaq presario and it came with 138gigs. Initially it came with around 119gigs and after awhile i started to see that it started to decrease like around a gig aday or when i left it on to long. I took it in and geek squad and they said i had a virus but i restored it and nothing on my trendmirco has detected anything. I run proccess explorer and i cant see anything weird that is poping up using alot of CPU and now after i restored it twice i think its slowly doing it again but i heard that Vista uses alot of memory stored in cache called superfetch is this the reason why i see the decrease when im doing something on the system or what is serverpack 2 the guy kept telling me that this could be the case also. Please help im trying to understand all of this
View 5 Replies View Relatedmy C drive is 160g with a 12 gig partition and 2x 9g partitions, that are now cleared. After Vista crashed, from not enough space on the hard drive ( Started up then crashed once it got to the Windows loading screen with auroa picture, by crash i mean self restart) So next i tried to reinstall vista via DVD command prompt, using Partdisk format C: took about 20 mins and i noticed it was still on 2% so i thought it had frozen so i closed it down to just do a Quick format, format C:.......
View 6 Replies View RelatedI wanted a fast drive, so I bought a solid state drive. But I'm a poor college student and so got the 64GB one, which only has 58GB of space (because Lenovo put something on a separate partition which they say I cannot get rid of). The only thing installed is WinVist and MS Office 2007 (and McAfee and other progrms that came with the PC which weren't taking up much space).
Those two programs took up 30GB of space. Yesterday, some Windows backup thing started to run and said "There isn't enough room on this drive to do the backup, do you want to do it anyway? (I'm paraphrasing)". Since I like having things backed up, I said Yes anyway (and to see what happened). Now I have 1 GB free on my drive. Lenovo won't help me with Windows because that's "a configuration issue" and they don't do that. How do I get rid of this backup and get at least 20GB back? Then, how can I configure Windows and Office to take up less disk space?
It seems like Lenovo sold me a PC with a disk drive that doesn't have enough space to operate correctly. And they won't help me resolve the problem. Also, it seems that it is not as easy to separate your data in WinVista as magazine articles would have you believe. I tried configuring it so my "Documents" was on another external drive, but that proved too difficult.
I have a 160mb internal hard drive with 1 partition (ntfs). Vista sp2.When viewing drive info 3rd party software is showing the used space and also 10mb of unallocated space.
View 9 Replies View RelatedVista Ultimate 32-bit SP2. I have noticed that during the course of an average week, the amount of available disk space on both my C: and D: drives varies by up to 15GB even though no significant activity in the form of manipulating files or installing programs is taking place. It might be 20GB available one night and then magically it's up to 35GB in the morning. The pattern is usually that it will reach a high and then gradually do down each day until it jumps back to the maximum all of a sudden. What could be causing this? I do not have System Protection turned on so the space is not being used for System Restore. The C: and D: "drives" are actually partitions on the same physical disk.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Vista Home Premium on my one yr old HP laptop. I keep getting a popupindicating low disk space on my "D" recovery drive and have to delete files from my trash. Since the "D" drive is FULL, I have NEVER been able to do a full backup. I have not saved anything to the D drive. A friend suggested one of my 'spy security' programs had saved data there. I had 'SpyBot' but uninstalled it. I still have WeBroot Spy Sweeper, Adaware, and my Norton Anti-Virus running. Is there a setting that will allow an overwrite of the data in the D drive?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm missing a 100GB out of 150GB of my hard disk. I deleted all previous restore points backups, but no memory freed!
View 5 Replies View RelatedI run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system, and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this freed up space gets consumed also.
How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated space? The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.
how I would "transfer" disk space from my partioned D drive to C drive? Just tp try, I've already "unallocated" 1G, and now have no clue what to do with it - lol (I did not request the drive be partioned
View 6 Replies View RelatedI seems to be getting a large number of temp_someFilename.zip in %temp% folder lately like 10 GB in two days. I deleted them a couple of days ago and got disk fill message today, seeing a large number of temp_....zip again in %temp%. what is causing this? windows search?
View 6 Replies View Relatedwhen i try to install software it comes up with (drive)not enough disk space..when i have 30gb left.. when i attempt to create a restore point twice 1st came up with 0x80070070 and 2nd was. when i load a picture it says not enough picture please close some apps/free up disk space. when i uninstall a software it says an error occured while writing installation information to disk.check to make sure enough disk space is available, and click retry or cancel end the.. my computer has 1 harddrive split into C and D partitions...its an ACER 57357 with 4gb ram,2.16ghz-667mhz fsb-1mb l2 cache, 320gb harddrive, 4500m intergrated graphics
View 4 Replies View RelatedSince I installed SP2 on the 22nd of July, I am losing 1-2G of space from my hard drive. I have plenty of space so it's not a really bad problem, just irritating. I started out with 280G free of 338. When I installed SP2 it went down to about 260. Last night I was down to 239 and this morning it's 237. It usually happens overnight and I don't know where to being looking. Would it be restore point's or system check points? Other than that the computer is working fine..
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