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| 647723 | 2008-03-09 19:45:00 | When I set up my hard drive I was silly enough to only allocate 5 gigs to the partition for the opsys (XP Pro). It was fine for a year using only 2.5 gigs. But over the last couple of days I get warned that I'm running out of space, and I see it's only got around 200 megs free. What could cause this? I never install anything on that partition and My Docs is located elsewhere. Any suggestions on how to remedy this? Obviously I can reformat, but can't be bothered right now. Thanks. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 647724 | 2008-03-09 19:58:00 | How much free or unused space on the drive? You can change partition sizes gparted.sourceforge.net but if you're short of space elsewhere it's just putting off the inevitable. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 647725 | 2008-03-09 20:05:00 | Windows XP should allow you to change the size of your partitions I think. Have a look in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management. Otherwise, Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director should do the job. |
jason_f90 (3544) | ||
| 647726 | 2008-03-09 20:10:00 | System restore? Pagefile? Recycle bin? Windows XP should allow you to change the size of your partitions I think. Have a look in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management.Not from within Windows - Windows can't resize its own system partition while it is running. Use gparted on a livecd for this. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 647727 | 2008-03-09 20:29:00 | as mentioned before pagefile, hyberfile.sys, system restore? have you run one of the drivespace thingies that show you the drive as a pie and which directories are using the most space (sorry i forget the name something like diskpie) also the one that show you space used by filetype (suprisingly handy, i found 3 linux iso files that were using 5 gb on my c:\) |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 647728 | 2008-03-09 20:32:00 | Hello, why are you going to resize the partition? May be the problem causes by allocating temporary files or as Bletch said. Find out first what the space amount. btw. I' m using 2.5 gig over 4 or 5 years without any trouble. Regards Mylin |
Mylin (13483) | ||
| 647729 | 2008-03-10 06:12:00 | Get the Scanner from this page: www.steffengerlach.de It will tell you exactly what files are taking up all the space. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 647730 | 2008-03-10 09:22:00 | I use a very useful utility for graphically displaying disk usage called "WinDirStat". Download from here: http://windirstat.info/ | Rod J (451) | ||
| 647731 | 2008-03-10 20:41:00 | 5 for the opsys (XP Pro). I get warned that I'm running out of space, and I see it's only got around 200 megs free. What could cause this? Bloat. System Restore. Turn that off for starters. This is why I have an image of c:, take a look at the size of the Windows folder now, bet its increased. Mine here at present is 1.39GB. Total C: 3.9GB. |
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