Friends computer to much on hard drive causing to crash

photogifts

Hi there my friend is having trouble with desktop pc so details are a little vague as i am not near it and have not seen it,

The guy who made the pc for him made 3 seperate partitions on the hard drive 1 the operating system and other 2 for each individual saving space

and whats happened is the first partition is filled up to max and the pc is just getting past bios then crashing doesn't go into windows when he got it fixed before my friend he got some stuff deleted from his first partition then it worked again this is all the information i know so far and i am going over tomorrow hopefully with a solution

any help appreciated thank you in advance

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more info required, crashing with what on screen?

stilltheone

Live CD Of course, don't install it. Just 'Try it'. Navigate to the OD drive and move some data.

Make sure you also have a Recovery disc for the system concerned. A Kaspersky Rescue Disc may be useful if there is a malware issue.

gordikin

Is your mate in Scotland?.....I'd get the popcorn.

photogifts

Going to see tomorrow whats happening it was over the phone conversation and what he said was the bios loads up ok then cuts out when what should be windows loading screen none of that appears just bios then blank off start again

stilltheone

Tell him to tap F8 and to disable 'Automatically restart on System Failure'(or some such).

photogifts

I willl see if can find out more info later thanks to replies so far