One drive (me mad)

spurdog1

yes, you understand well, forgive my inclarity. It was the screen breaking away from the surround. The hinges are vulnerable to this

PRAISETHESUN

spurdog1 said:

an update, with a question on my dell inspirron. You may recall i wiped the memory before sending it away.

This drive c indicates 53.6 gb free of 118GB.

You guessed!!! if i've wiped it, why is it "half full"? I've found some screenshots, but all my files appear deleted. nSo, what takes up half the space of the c drive, it's RAM is 4 gb.Is there a way of looking into "c" to identify what is taking up the space?

Many thanks

RAM has nothing to do with your C drive capacity. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that's how much storage your Windows installation and manufacturer's associated bloatware takes up though, assuming you actually did completely format your drive before sending it off, and not just reinstalled Windows.

Newcad

spurdog1 said:

an update, with a question on my dell inspiron. You may recall i wiped the memory before sending it away.

This drive c indicates 53.6 gb free of 118GB.

You guessed!!! if i've wiped it, why is it "half full"? I've found some screenshots, but all my files appear deleted. nSo, what takes up half the space of the c drive, it's RAM is 4 gb.Is there a way of looking into "c" to identify what is taking up the space?

Many thanks

If you have deleted/ wiped your data then what remains must be system fies and partitions. (and possibly manufacturer pre-instaled crap, sorry manufacturer pre-installed apps).

What size is your pagefile?  your Recovery partition? etc.

To start with try tunning the Windows Disk CleanUp using the 'Clean up System Files' button - if you haven't used it recently (or at all) then it may take some time doing "Windows update clean up".

Oops,  it should be Patch Tuesday today so I'd let it do that (do a 'Check for updates later today) and then do the cleaning afterwards, maybe even give it a day or two.

spurdog1

Newcad said:

spurdog1 said:

an update, with a question on my dell inspiron. You may recall i wiped the memory before sending it away.

This drive c indicates 53.6 gb free of 118GB.

You guessed!!! if i've wiped it, why is it "half full"? I've found some screenshots, but all my files appear deleted. nSo, what takes up half the space of the c drive, it's RAM is 4 gb.Is there a way of looking into "c" to identify what is taking up the space?

Many thanks

If you have deleted/ wiped your data then what remains must be system fies and partitions. (and possibly manufacturer pre-instaled crap, sorry manufacturer pre-installed apps).

What size is your pagefile?  your Recovery partition? etc.

To start with try tunning the Windows Disk CleanUp using the 'Clean up System Files' button - if you haven't used it recently (or at all) then it may take some time doing "Windows update clean up".

Oops,  it should be Patch Tuesday today so I'd let it do that (do a 'Check for updates later today) and then do the cleaning afterwards, maybe even give it a day or two.

I'll get onto it, thanks

grumpycrab

Perhaps you now have a c:\windows.old  as a result of it going away?