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C: Drive showing nearly full when it is not
adon30
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The hard drive on our Laptop is 70GB. Split 25/45 between c: and d: drives. It is running windows XP.
For some reason though the c: drive is showing as nearly full.
I have been through the normal stuff like emptying temporary files and recycle bin but it made little difference.
When running defrag large sections show up as fragmented (red) and the defrag does not remove them. It also struggles because of the lack of disk space.
I hve been through the c: drive and it appears to be within the windows directory. I removed the old ie7 folder as this was very large but it stilll made no difference. I have been through and there should only be about 4GB of data on it. But if you do properties from the windows folder it says tht it is 20Gb.
I have ran a disk check on boot up and still no difference.
Is there any thing else I can do to clear this?
If I have missed any 'a's whilst writing this it is because the button doesn't always work.
For some reason though the c: drive is showing as nearly full.
I have been through the normal stuff like emptying temporary files and recycle bin but it made little difference.
When running defrag large sections show up as fragmented (red) and the defrag does not remove them. It also struggles because of the lack of disk space.
I hve been through the c: drive and it appears to be within the windows directory. I removed the old ie7 folder as this was very large but it stilll made no difference. I have been through and there should only be about 4GB of data on it. But if you do properties from the windows folder it says tht it is 20Gb.
I have ran a disk check on boot up and still no difference.
Is there any thing else I can do to clear this?
If I have missed any 'a's whilst writing this it is because the button doesn't always work.
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If they are all identical sizes, and about a day apart in date, it's probably a crap windows update (microsoft .net framework possibly) that keeps trying to reinstall, and you can delete everything but the latest one.
If you want to be sure they are identical, do a crc check with doublekiller.!!
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Yep there is an outlook update that will not install despite trying everything. There were also two others but they appear to of worked now. But time will tell.0
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Nice one.
It is showing as 17Gb of files in c:\windows\installer
All .msp files of 114.4mB each
Could not see the folder from explorer
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Sounds like you need to run msizap (with the G parameter), see here:
http://thebackroomtech.com/2009/01/19/howto-use-msizap-to-remove-orphaned-cached-windows-installer-data-files-to-increase-free-disk-space/Stompa0 -
Quite nifty
Treesize definately good for finding those hidden files which creep up the disk usageOwner of andrewhope.co.uk, hate cars and love them
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