Hard Drive Nearly Full

Avoriaz

PJB wrote: »

Thanks

How do I partition like that? Will it ask me when I do the install?

It appears that you have sorted out your space problem.

If you do decide to do a reinstall, there should be an option to set up partitions.

However I'm really not the best person to advise on this so I will leave that to others with more knowledge and experience.

Frankly, if your computer is running fine and you now have plenty of space, I would leave it alone.

My Win7 install is well over a year old and I have never felt the need to do a reinstall.

Avoriaz

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

If you are a "bit worried about losing them" why on earth have you only got one hard drive ??? :eek::eek: Get another - yesterday, if not sooner !

I have 260GB of photographs and 3 HDDs and am on the point of getting another.

Agreed.

I have about 600gb of mostly irreplacable music videos plus a lot of photos etc.

I have 3 x 1tb external disks storing full copies of all my videos plus various smaller disks for my other data.

I keep one full backup off site at a friend's house just in case of fire, burglary etc.

PJB

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

If you are a "bit worried about losing them" why on earth have you only got one hard drive ??? :eek::eek: Get another - yesterday, if not sooner !

I have 260GB of photographs and 3 HDDs and am on the point of getting another.

Great username!

I do have other hard drives and have backed up photos on it.

We seem to be very para now ,3HDDs +1, yet when I was a kid it cost a fortune to get an extra copy of your camera film (film: old fashioned memory card???).

You can also cloud them, but 260gb!

GunJack

it may seem trivial under the circumstances, but your Windows folder is way too big at 34GB....run the inbuilt windows disk cleaner and also old restore points....probably reduce this by 10-12GB-ish....follow this guide:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=25746315&postcount=7

PJB

GunJack wrote: »

it may seem trivial under the circumstances, but your Windows folder is way too big at 34GB....run the inbuilt windows disk cleaner and also old restore points....probably reduce this by 10-12GB-ish....follow this guide:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=25746315&postcount=7

Thanks Gunjack but it didn't remove a kb!

santer_2

Have you got a folder called windows.old

vish16

No the OP does not have windows.old (see his previous screenie about his drives).

I have a similar layout to one the previous posters, dedicating C:\ to just windows and applications. All your personal data goes onto other partitions.

obviously as in line with other posters advice - regularly back them up onto your physically separate external hard drive.

To partition your drives use this free but limited partition tool - I speak only for myself that it has worked for me many times:
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

GunJack

PJB wrote: »

Thanks Gunjack but it didn't remove a kb!

really ???

PJB

GunJack wrote: »

really ???

Yeah, but I had run CCleaner before

Figment

Your Windows folder: 34.2GB | 111,963 items | 90,943 files | 21,020 Subdirs

My Windows folder: 14.0GB | 67,011 items | 56,278 files | 10,733 Subdirs

I'm running 32 bit version v your 64 bit, but I wouldn't expect it to make that much difference. I'm sure someone else running 64 bit will post their stats for comparison.