How can I free up Disk space

abc123456

My PC has been freezing frequently.

In File Explorer under "This PC".....

My PC`s Local Disk (C:) is showing almost full red with 8.1GB free of 111 GB..... whereas New Volume (D:) is almost empty, showing 887GB free of 931GB.

How can I utilise some of this free space in New Volume?

A.Penny.Saved

It sounds like your hard drive? is partitioned into two separate partitions. One for windows which is not very large on your system and another as a data ie logical partition.

You can repartition the drive taking some space from the data partition ie New volume and add some to the Windows Primary partition.

Mini Tool Partition wizard can be used for free, I recommend that you get or create a boot cd so that you can do the repartitioning outside windows. There is a windows version but I would not recommend you do that. I forget now how it creates the boot cd version or whether you have to download that separately.

A.Penny.Saved

It looks like they removed the boot cd creation from the Free home edition in the latest release. I have 9.1 and I have created a boot cd with it so it would be worth you getting that.
v9.1 is available at the following link:
https://filehippo.com/download_minitool_partition_wizard_home_edition/62679/

emptybox

Just make folders for videos, music etc in the data drive (D), and move your media over using cut and paste.
You can then use the library feature in Windows to include those folders. You can even make them the default 'save' location if required.

111GB is plenty large enough for the system partition. It's your data that is taking up the space.

Judging by the relative sizes of your drives I would suspect that they are separate physical drives, rather than just partitions on the same drive, but I could be wrong?
(i.e together they add up to more than 1 TB)

tonyh66

emptybox wrote: »

Just make folders for videos, music etc in the data drive (D), and move your media over using cut and paste.
You can then use the library feature in Windows to include those folders. You can even make them the default 'save' location if required.

111GB is plenty large enough for the system partition. It's your data that is taking up the space.

Judging by the relative sizes of your drives I would suspect that they are separate physical drives, rather than just partitions on the same drive, but I could be wrong?
(i.e together they add up to more than 1 TB)

they do add up to more than 1024GB which would be a 1TB drive, but I doubt they are 2 separate drives as they would be weird sizes. Your advice about transfering all files and media from MY Documents on C: to is sound though.

EveryWhere

It looks like a 120GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD.

So odd that it is slow with a solid state drive.

I don't really get involved in clean ups any more. Too time consuming.

Transfer data to storage drive and do a refresh/reset on the boot drive.

emptybox

tonyh66 wrote: »

they do add up to more than 1024GB which would be a 1TB drive, but I doubt they are 2 separate drives as they would be weird sizes. Your advice about transfering all files and media from MY Documents on C: to is sound though.

My guess would be the OP has a 120 GB SSD as their system (C) drive, and a 1 TB hard drive as their data (D) drive.
Windows always reports smaller sizes than the advertised capacities, so 111 GB and 930 GB reported sizes are not far off.
Only the OP knows what they have though.

If after moving data across to the D drive, the sytem drive is still too full, then look to see how much space is taken up by System Restore and Recycle Bin.
Also consider turning off Hibernation, as the hiberfil.sys file used by this feature can take up many GBs.

ETA. Oh! Beaten to it.

abc123456

Thank you everyone...I dont have an optical drive on this PC so will transfer some of the data to the D drive.