Lap top saying low disk space

Lucero_2

ok, Windows 7 right?

Click on Start and type "backup" without the quotes

Backup and Restore will appear in the list. Click it.
Click "set a backup" (although I think you already have one in place so you may have the option to view).
Windows backup will start, it's just a wizard at this stage.
You then choose your destination. Ideally, you want an external hard drive (50Gb + in size should do it). If you only want to backup your documents, pictures, music, then a large USB thumb drive should work too. Whatever it is, it needs to be installed now.


I'm choosing for the purposes of this, you'd choose whatever extrenal drive was listed.

Then choose let me choose


Select everything you want to backup

Click each little arrow to expand the folder.

NB: Note the tick at the bottom that says "include a system image", this will take a complete snapshot of the C: drive and will easily be 20Gb or more in your case.

Confirm the settings you've chosen and run


You are then given the option to schedule incremental backups (only changes that have been made). In the example above, that's every Sunday at 7pm. You can change that there. In the event of data loss, you plug in your external drive and repeat the process but this time you'd choose "restore data", not backup. If the laptop won't power on, you'd boot from a Windows 7 disc, or recovery image, and choose to restore from a backup. Windows would do the rest.

Hibernation:
To disable, click on start and type cmd. Right click and choose "run as administrator".
when the black box appears, at the prompt, type powercfg -h off


This will disable hibernation and the space on the disk drive which is allocated to it. It does no harm.

Avast:
I'll take a look around and get back to you. Wouldn't hurt to uninstall it completely and then run microsoft security essentials in it's place.

Lucero_2

Rasberry_Diva wrote: »

http://imgur.com/ybM88

this is what D drive looks like do i ahve delete anything else?

Because you've been low on disk space on C. Windows appears to have moved the pagefile to This means you might need to restart before it sorts itself out. I'd be tempted to right click on the D drive in "Computer" and choose format but until the pagefile is moved back, this will generate an error.

If you don't want to do that, remove the other WindowsImageBackup folder and Samsung folder completely as they are now defunct.

closed

the backups on d are doing no harm, and you may need them

Rasberry_Diva

http://imgur.com/BKR21

this is what my backup says!!!

Lucero_2

closed wrote: »

the backups on d are doing no harm, and you may need them

Apart from the fact they've all now been deleted. The remnants are just file markers.

this is what my backup says!!!

perfect, you've got most of your diskspace back on D now, but it will fill up quickly and unfortunately, Windows 7 doesnt manage the backups itself, you have to. It will just tell you the backup failed if it's low on diskspace. The backup taking place now is a full system image backup and all files and folders. If you are happy with this then you have two choices. Keep it, and manually deleted the oldest backup set folder every once in a while, or use the backup wizard to make sure you backup to an external (and larger) USB disk.

Rasberry_Diva

closed wrote: »

the backups on d are doing no harm, and you may need them

i deleted some back ups do i need them back???????
god i'm so confused now

Lucero_2

Rasberry_Diva wrote: »

i deleted some back ups do i need them back???????
god i'm so confused now

No, not unless you want something from them, in which case, too late. The backup that's happening now will be your latest backup.

Rasberry_Diva

no i dont have anything i need i saved all my pictures and documents on a usb now so do i have to do anything else now someone else told me to delete some anti virus software as i have too many but dont know what i have so much of?

Lucero_2

You needed, space, you've got it. Personally, I would ditch Avast using "add/Remove Programs" from within control panel, and grab Microsoft Security Essentials from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security_essentials/default.aspx

And see how you go. That will certainly stop Avast from filling up disk space with log files again

closed

why are you telling the op to delete backups, disable hibernation, and format drives when it is not necessary? They may need those backups.