low disk space

Linbox

Hmm, not using your acer lappy as a torrent box are you? Small C: drive in comparison with the ?
Get used to shift deleting your old torrents as they fill up the Recycle Bin and take up all the space on the C: drive.
Therefore as above Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk cleanup and right click empty recycle bin, oh and run CCleaner regularly and SpybotSD and Malwarebytes.

spud17

Linbox, tomsolomon is correct, it seems to be a Acer thing.

They have a C drive, and an empty D drive, which is not a recovery partition, yet I don't know if the reason is explained in any of their manuals.

All I know is that most (all) average users don't have a clue about such things, or even want to.

Copy it across, as per his post, #12.

closed

Somewhere to put your data, good practice to have it on a different drive/partition to windows, but still needs backing up externally.

johncalvin7

closed wrote: »

Somewhere to put your data, good practice to have it on a different drive/partition to windows, but still needs backing up externally.

Installed softwares needs to be on C: Drive may be we can move the movies or images externally.

Coveredinbees!!!!

I got a Acer too, filled up the D and most the C so went and bought an external drive to fill up with junk. 200Gig soon goes doesn't it.

fiddiwebb

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

I got a Acer too, filled up the D and most the C so went and bought an external drive to fill up with junk. 200Gig soon goes doesn't it.

Yes, and I can guess what you filled it up with

Coveredinbees!!!!

what !!!!!!?

Linbox

spud17 wrote: »

Linbox, tomsolomon is correct, it seems to be a Acer thing.

They have a C drive, and an empty D drive, which is not a recovery partition, yet I don't know if the reason is explained in any of their manuals.

All I know is that most (all) average users don't have a clue about such things, or even want to.

Copy it across, as per his post, #12.

I know about the problem and deal with it regularly, and was offering a known solution.

I didn't mention anything about tomsolomon's post which is also good advise. Like my post, it is one of several options a user can use.
TBH I just reinforced a previous post. The only thing new I offered
was clearing the recycle bin and use programs that every user should use. ( just in case they didn't know or want to know previously). :rotfl:

As you may or not know about the fault - it causes unexpected problems such as you cannot save files or update anti virus as there's no space on the C: drive.

Now then, what is an instant remedy? :shocked:
Delete all the non needed files - please see my post. This will get you running immediately that gives you the ability to deal with other things like moving your "my documents" and download folders to the drive, I didn't presume that they knew or not about that. In fact in post #9 the OP says :-

helen_roberts wrote: »

the date (D) says 90.7mb used and 32.2gb free
this sounds like good news??

:j