Application in my documents, and on virtual drive. Can I delete one?

littlemissmanics

I'm a total novice so would very much appreciate some help.

I downloaded a car workshop manual for my dad onto my computer, and its been installed on a virtual drive, 'E' (and it runs fine from here). My problem is its a huge file on an old laptop (5GB, and my poor laptop currently has 433MB free :eek:).

Whilst looking for things to delete so I can actually put some of my music back on my laptop, I found that the manual is also in My Documents. Can I delete it from here to free up a very welcome 5GB, or is the virtual drive (E) taking the file from here to run. In the 'computer' window its describes E as having 0 bytes of 5.01GB free, which I assume is because the virtual drive was only created for this programme, but does this mean the file is in there?

I literally have no idea what I can or can't delete with regards to trying to get some use of my own computer back. Please help!

RichPyke

It depends what you mean by a 'virtual drive'. I assume it's a mounted ISO/Disc Image? And it depends what the file in the 'my documents' is. If I assumed right then as long as it's not a .iso, .img, .bin etc.. then it should be OK to delete...

The best bet is to send the one in 'my documents' to the recycle bin. This way you can check the virtual drive still works as it should after deleting from my documents. If it does then empty the recycle bin, if not then restore it from recycle bin.

Although, why not just burn it to DVD and delete from the hard drive?

littlemissmanics

RichPyke wrote: »

It depends what you mean by a 'virtual drive'. I assume it's a mounted ISO/Disc Image? And it depends what the file in the 'my documents' is. If I assumed right then as long as it's not a .iso, .img, .bin etc.. then it should be OK to delete...

The best bet is to send the one in 'my documents' to the recycle bin. This way you can check the virtual drive still works as it should after deleting from my documents. If it does then empty the recycle bin, if not then restore it from recycle bin.

Although, why not just burn it to DVD and delete from the hard drive?

The file in My Documents was an ISO file, and after it took an hour to install itself on my computer in the first place (after the much protracted download....its the last time he's ever allowed to buy things without checking with someone first!), I decided against trying the recycle bin option

And I don't have any discs large enough to burn it onto. I did try this in the first place but wasn't getting anywhere with it.

Fortunately my sister has just taken pity on me and said I can try putting it on her external hard drive, so hoping this'll work instead. Why I ended up downloading the thing when I have the slowest computer going, with the least amount of memory I'm not sure. Must stop being a soft touch.

Thanks for your help. I hadn't even considered looking to see if the file types were the same in E and My Documents, so its a good job I didnt go with my first reaction which was just to delete the sodding thing!