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Thread ID: 108912	2010-04-16 10:16:00	FULL HARD DRIVE - Can't Get My Stuff!	Trevornchris (11918)	Press F1

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877271	2010-04-16 10:16:00	The other day I downloaded the latest issue of an online magazine and got the message that my hard drive was nearly full. (It was!) I have had this message before and always emptied the recycle bin and defragged etc. to tidy things up and free up space. This time I forgot, and duly turned the computer off! The next time I turned it on I got a message along the lines..."your drive C is full...there is not enough memory the load your personal settings....windows will start in ??? mode. (It wasn't safe mode but I cannot remember the exact words). Windows eventually loaded and I only have a few icons on the otherwise normal desktop, but although Mozilla is operating I have no favourites list; photos aren't there - nothing personal to me seems to be accessible. Thunderbird wont bring up my emails - I have to log into Clearnet to get them.... I have uninstalled everything I can, like Google earth; Adobe Acrobat;Open Office; etc. and freed up 833Mb hoping by doing this everything would go back so that I could delete more stuff (Like the magazine) or load stuff onto a flash drive - but things just stay in this minimilist mode. I'm running an NEC Powermate with 15Gb on drive C (the problem disk) and 283Gb drive E (hardly used). Drive formatted NTFS. CPU pentium 4 @ 3GHz. I'm sorry if I am not making sense but I don't know much about computers. Is there anyone with an idea please?	Trevornchris (11918)
877272	2010-04-16 10:25:00	Use ccleaner so it'll remove the temp files etc. Disable hibernation if its enabled. Clear the system restore points	Speedy Gonzales (78)
877273	2010-04-16 10:25:00	Have you tried running Disk Cleanup. Click on All Programs/Accessories/System Tools. :)	Trev (427)
877274	2010-04-16 12:04:00	Are we talking about two partitions on one hard drive? C & E? If so then resize C: Is D: the CD/DVD drive?	Sweep (90)
877275	2010-04-16 13:01:00	Thanks to all but no success. 1) Hibernation was already disabled. 2) Cleared restore points. 3) Ran disk cleanup. 4) Downloaded CCleaner and ran. (Had it previously but it went with everything I've lost, as described.) As a result of all that, I now have 1.5Gb free space on drive C. 'C' and 'E' are individual drives as far as I know. D is the DVD/CD drive. Switched off (and pulled supply plug) but windows still loads in "short form" with just a few icons...I just can't understand why the drive C pie shows 13Gb used space and I can't find any of my content...	Trevornchris (11918)
877276	2010-04-16 13:10:00	So could you tell us what version of Windows you run? Try start > control panel > and get to disk management, Willing to bet you have one physical hard drive with two partitions or two logical drives.	Sweep (90)
877277	2010-04-16 13:25:00	Have you got a model number for this NEC Powermate?	Sweep (90)
877278	2010-04-16 13:56:00	Running XP 3 but can't find disk management under control panel. The Powermate is model MT5101r but I've just realised that I had a lot of upgrade work done when the original HD crashed so the model number is probably meaningless now. It has never missed a beat since - until this latest problem..	Trevornchris (11918)
877279	2010-04-16 19:47:00	Just a thought - you don't know whether you have a large fixed size swapfile set up on Drive C: do you. In Vista this is under Control Panel, System Settings,Advanced Tab and Performance Settings, Advanced - hopefully it's similar in XP. You can either change this to the E: drive or change it to the System Managed Size option.	TeejayR (4271)
877280	2010-04-16 20:37:00	Running XP 3 but can't find disk management under control panel. The Powermate is model MT5101r but I've just realised that I had a lot of upgrade work done when the original HD crashed so the model number is probably meaningless now. It has never missed a beat since - until this latest problem.. Try this to get to disk management:- How to use Disk Management To start Disk Management: Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view. To customize how you view your disks and volumes in the upper and lower panes of the window, point to Top or Bottom on the View menu, and then click the view that you want to use. NOTE: Microsoft recommends that you create a full back up of your disk contents before you make any changes to your disks or volumes. Then report what you see.	Sweep (90)
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