Low Disk Space Error?
May 25, 2010
I've read a lot of threads about low disk space and learned many things. It seems that 5 year old computers get into this situation. I see our C drive is at 74.50 GB with 1.28 GB free. We have FIXNTLDR (D) which uses 2MB and My Book (G) with a capacity of 298 GB and 108 GB free. We have 4 users, one at 2.39 GB, another at 265 MB, another at 266 MB and another at 4 GB. The "Shared Folder" is at 10.6 GB, I don't know if that means it uses that space separately or is a total of our user use somehow. (What does that mean?)
If our system did crash we it would be a loss to lose our '09-10 turbotax info, microsoft money info, more music, and more pictures. I'm wondering how to problem solve this a step at a time. I guess I should make sure the backup drive has a back up of the above information (?). If we get a new computer (which isn't likely right now), will a new OS and software be able to open those items? Is it reasonable to purchase a rebuilt tower that has more disk space? I've thought of using the Tree... software to see where to free up space but I doubt I have space to install even that.
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Aug 15, 2008
Last week i installed windows XP Pro on my desktop. It has a 250GB hard drive which has 1 partition (C drive only), NTFS offcourse. I did not format it while installing windows as it has lots of stuff in it. There's over 50GB free and i�ve been removing a lot of stuff from the hard drive to make up some space but in windows i get an error message that i don't have enough disk space, the disk cleanup utility runs cant free up space and i can not install or copy anything in the hard drive. I've noticed that when i deleted some file holding (or not) the shift key the free size goes lower although the files are being deleted from the hard disk.
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Dec 28, 2008
When attempting to backup the My Documents folder which has a total of 101GB of files I have no problem copying that information to a 320GB or 500GB external hard drive except for some files/folders in the My Videos folder.The total space in the My Videos folder is 69GBWhen I try to copy some files/folders from My Videos to either of the external hard drives that have plenty of free space I get the following:Error Copying File or Folder dialog box stating that "There is not enough free disk space".Why would I be getting that message when the drive where I am copying the data to has more than enough free space?
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Jun 25, 2005
I am trying to backup my two drives in windows XP. My media is Jaz. When I select the files to backup it gives me this message. " There is not enough space on the disk. Please insert a different disk" To backup these files it will take approximately 15 2gb disks. Is there a way that windows upon filling one disk will go to another?
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Mar 31, 2007
I have a 100GB hard drive and windows XP keeps recognizing it as being full. When I view drive C it says that it has all of its 88GB filled. The interesting thing is that when I do a CTRL A of all of its contents, the size is only 20GB. My computer is free of movies and music with the exception of a few gigs of photos and small programs. System speed is fine and I do not believe that my system has any sort of malicious files on it.
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Mar 30, 2007
I Have been getting Low disk space memory error's for the last week or so. I have cleaned out my temporary internet files, history, cookies, and deleted a bunch of music files for some space on my drive after getting these messages. Luckily i saved them on a online sharing drive so i didnt lose them all but I am basically wondering why my computer is using up sooo much hard drive space in such a short period of time. Just today i shut the computer off and let it sit for hours hoping that the problem would go away and when i started it back up right away i got a low disk space error. Now After deleting music it said i had over 600 MB of space on the hard drive and the problem was fixed. Not even 20 seconds later i get the error again and it said i only had 180 MB of space. Why would it be doing this ? Do I have a virus ? I ran AVG and it came clean, found no virus or anything.
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Mar 18, 2008
I've got a small home network. I've been trying to copy a file from one computer to another. The file is about 7gb in size, and I know that the destination drive has 25gb free. But every time I try to copy it, I get an error message telling me that there's not enough free disk space.
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Mar 21, 2006
When I install any programs they all report that i have my 23gb free, which windows and all hd space reporting programs say, but when they actually go to install they say not enough space.
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Feb 22, 2010
My issue is my machine displays "not enough disk space " error when i try to paste a file of 4gb though there is enough disk space of over 8gb free in my drive
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Mar 31, 2007
I don't get it. the more i go on, the more and more disk space seems to vanish into thin air. xp usually takes a couple of gigs up on the hard disk, right? maybe 5 gigs at the very most. i've got 8 gigs taken up by videos in one folder. the programs i've got installed are negligable. the program files folder is 500mb. and yet my disk only has 20 gigs spare on a 40 gig hard disk. i've looked in every folder on the hard disk and i simply can't find any folders with anything of any great size in it. i've defragged the hard drive.
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Apr 28, 2007
how to expand the disk space that I have. The primary C drive has the OS on it and it is only about 14GB, and my entire disk is about 50GB, the unallocated space is about 34 GB. I have tried to expand the primary partition unsuccessfully. Do I have to reload the entire OS ? I do not have the origional disk to reload the OS. It is a sony PCG-CRT160 computer with 500 mb ram and approximately a 50 GB primary drive that was partitioned when I got it.
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Aug 13, 2007
i wanted to copy a cd image 4.18GB ISO format from partition F: NTFS 9GB free to partition D: (FAT32 12GB free space) and windows gives me that crap there is not enough space and i should do a disk clean up.
I made a disk clean up to partition D: and there was 3GB of system restore files!!! maybe coz i deleted 6GB earlier anyway i deleted the system restore files
Only NTFS partions can have files with file size more than 4GB..i hope theres nothing wrong with my windows or my hard disk..and i wanna know if theres a way to move that ISO image..thanx in advance.
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Feb 5, 2006
Drive C total capacity is around 24GB, when selecting all files in C:, it shows 12GB used, but only 2GB is left in free space. What's wrong?
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Nov 26, 2007
Recently ive been getting the yellow triangle icon with an ''!'' in it, saying that I have very low disk space. Ive noticed my computer has also been running slower than usual. Maybe half a year ago I came here with the same problem, and someone (forget the name, sorry) posted a link to a program somebody made that clears your disk space up for you. It deleted old unused files, and it worked great. You sort of just clicked on the link on the site, a box came up, and you checked off what you needed to be cleared, and then the program fixed it for you.
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May 1, 2007
It says that TOTAL SIZE = 39 GB And Free Space = 5 GB Which means that the size of all files on C is 34 GB But when I select all files including Hidden files and Right Click> Properties, its size of all files is only 27 GB.I did clear recycle bin and disk defragmenter C, but still the same. So why is that?
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Mar 27, 2008
I'm facing the following problem: I would like to have my Disk space (750GB) subdivided to accomplish the following
1 - Boot Windows XP Prof SP2 x86
2 - Boot Windows XP Prof SP2 x64
3 - Store my Data Folders and Files separately (to do Backups from one place).
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Aug 20, 2006
At least once a week I get this message: "To free up disk space, OE can compact messages". I just click "OK". I have 132 GB available so why do I get a message like this?
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Feb 13, 2008
I am using Windows XP Home Edition. When i try using Norton360 to carry out disk optimization, i get the error message
"Drive C: Insufficient Free Disk Space, Need 15% free"
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Apr 24, 2005
I've got a moderate amount of mp3 albums on my c drive and alot of the time i might download more and just place them on my desktop, anyway i tried to download a good pc game to install and play and i got a pop up saying OUT OF DISKSPACE!! then it asked me to free disk space so iam like how can all the space just be up all of a sudden? what can i do to get more disk space its very annoying.
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Mar 3, 2007
How can I find where all of my disk space is used up? When I go to my C drive and right click on properties, 28.3 GB used 2.7 free what can I delete since I have run disk clean up and deleted all but the last restore point?
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Apr 11, 2008
Laptop has 4GB. I defragmented the C disk several times over the last couple of year. Now the used disk space has crept up to nearly that, leaving only 200-300MB at any one time. I have nothing unusual as far as programs go, and I do not have a media player or anything like that hooked up,
At 200-300MB, there is no ability to defragment. I use a CCleaner, and Eusing Registry Cleaner regularly. Wher
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May 24, 2008
Computer has been really low on disk space for a long time. ATF Cleaner IT worked great, took off all temp files and such, all useless stuff that stays on your computer.
I've tried a disk cleanup that apears when space is low but it does pretty much nothing. I only have a 30G HD, but still, that cant possibly take it all up, I have only 19.3 mb left!
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Oct 7, 2008
I kept my pc running over night and when I woke up the free space in my drive c(contains os) was 700kb. It had dropped from 8gb. I checked system restore I thought it might have made a backup but that was not the case. I did find though a bunch .sqm files in my c drive. I've heard they can be related to live messenger and operation flashpoint ( a game). I have flashpoints sequel and live messenger. I haven't used either in several days. I did defragment the drive one day before this occurred. Can someone please tell me where all that space has gone to?
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Jun 25, 2010
I try to open a program, or try to edit a photo, my updates even say not enough disk space to install available updates. windows XP service pack 3 504 MB of RAM
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Jul 9, 2010
I have been downloading something on my computer and now i have 18.8GB left and there is
55.8 gb left.. I have taken some things off the disk..took off a lot of pics and movies and the disk does not seem to move what am i missing.
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Jun 30, 2005
I have win xp home ed. SP2 and when I go to "C" properties I see as used space 11.1 GB, but if I open "C" then "select all" -- showing hidden files and folders, I have a total of 7.5 GB in used space, how come that I have a difference of almost 3 GB?? Does anyone know?
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Jun 30, 2005
I have win xp home ed. SP2 and when I go to "C" properties I see as used space 11.1 GB, but if I open "C" then "select all" -- showing hidden files and folders -- I have a total of 7.5 GB in used space, how come
that I have a difference of almost 3 GB?? Does anyone know?
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Jul 30, 2005
Why is my disk space losing mor espace instead of gaining space when I have deleted files from the puter and the recycle, and deleted programs?
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Aug 26, 2005
I have a problem i recently reinstaleld windows XP on my computer and after i did that i found that i only had 2 GB so i deleated a few things that did not get deleated in the reinstallation and i also compressed old files and did a disk clean up and now i only have 10 GB out of a total size of 27 GB so i should have a lot more than 10 GB and i dont think that there is any thing else that can be deleated on my computer and i still have that problem.
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Nov 12, 2005
I have a problem with my hp pavillion pc, running on windows xp.it crashed on me and like a madman i had no back up disk but i did have my mates copy of xp pro which i loaded in to see if i could get any joy at all. to my suprise it fired up and appeared to load on quite well except i seem to have no disk space available, i cannot get anything loaded ie microsoft word or games etc.my spec is as follows
2.0 ghz intel celaron . 256mgb ram. 40gb hard drive.all used to work great before the crash.
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Jan 30, 2009
drive C: size is 19.6 GB. The free space keeps changing, which, PF usage is shown to be always upwards of 1.4 GB on the Task Manager. this is slowing down most other programs. I tried various 'cleanup' utilities and also did Virus/Malware scans, which turned up nothing. I also created an alternate Page file on another one of my big partitions, but this does not seem to have any effect. My startup is always slow, and so are application startups.
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