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DMich
Joined: Sep 28, 2008
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 Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: C drive, D drive, space issues, printing problems |
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| I am having problems with my computer due to low c: drive space (6%). I have already defragmented my computer with no help. I am wondering what I can or should \i say should use my d drive for to clear out and make space on my c drive. I know I should get a portable hard drive for music and pics but is there anything else I can do? (If advice is given can directions be given on how to do what is suggested?)
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goretsky
Joined: Dec 07, 2002
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Location: Southern California
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Hello,
It would be helpful to know a bit more about your operating environment.
How many hard disk drives do you currently have in the computer, what size disk volumes are they partitioned into, and how full are they?
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky |
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drwho07
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Location: Central FL, USA
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Due to the lack of info, I'm going to make a sort of "Blanket Statement", based on years of experience cleaning out junked up HD's. OK?
Most HD's get full due to the lack of maintenance and erroneously using C: for a closet or store-room.
Basic maintenance can be accomplished by running "Disk Cleanup" and "Defrag" on a weekly schedule. Then there are other 'cleanup' programs that may find things that "Disk Cleanup" may miss. I rely heavily on "Easy Cleaner 2" to get rid of "Unnecessary" files and to clean up the registry. Then I use 'NTREGOPT' to compact the registry once it's clean of old out of date entries.
To prevent HD bloat, all pictures, music and videos can and should be stored on either a second partition, a second HD, external HD or just burned to DVD's.
With so many options, surely anyone can find something that will work for them.
Important files like wedding pictures, won't be lost in a HD crash, when they've been burned to DVD's.
A Hard Drive is always the worlds worse place to store important data.
Someday, It's going to CRASH.....not IF, but WHEN!
In Government and big business, hard drives are backed up to tape or other suitable media, every day. Crashes are more frequent than ever thought of or admitted to.
Among my customer base, I have two Corporate CEO's that do Ghost backups of their C: drive every day, at the close of the day.
But before doing a backup, they run a maintenance routine that I've set up for them to clean out all the junk files that Windows creates. There's no use backing up Garbage. Right?
So clean out the junk and burn all your pictures, etc. to DVD's and you'll have your HD space back. Well, most of it anyway.
Cheers mate!
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Michael84
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| Dmich, try to use this prog to monitor your hard drives and space on it. They say it's efficient for disk space management. Not sure but it seems to be for free... |
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BudDurland
Joined: Dec 05, 2002
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:41 am Post subject: Re: C drive, D drive, space issues, printing problems [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| DMich wrote: |
| I am having problems with my computer due to low c: drive space (6%). I have already defragmented my computer with no help. I am wondering what I can or should \i say should use my d drive for to clear out and make space on my c drive. I know I should get a portable hard drive for music and pics but is there anything else I can do? (If advice is given can directions be given on how to do what is suggested?) |
As advised, cleanup is always a good thing, I always do backups, but I like having pictures, music, etc always available on my computer without flipping through CDs or DVDs to find what I want. Disk space is cheap.
You mention a "D:" drive. That could be a couple things:
1) Is it a small "recovery" partition provided by the computer vendor?
2) is it a second physical hard drive?
3) If this is an Acer or Sony computer, my bet is that the D: drive is a second partition on the existing drive. Those companies are known to install a large hard drive, then set up 2 partitions ( C: and D: ), with the first being 30GB or so, and the rest not being used. Crazy, but true.
In the case of (1), the thing to do is install a second hard drive, or replace the existing one with a larger unit.
in the case of (2) or (3), there's a couple things you can do. For example, by default your "My Documents" folder is stored on the C: drive. This is also where (by default) your music and pictures are stored. Moving this folder to a different drive is pretty easy:
[list1) ]Create a new folder on the D: drive that you want to assign as the My Documents folder.
2) Right click on My Documents or Documents (for Vista). If the icon is not on your desktop, you can find it in "Start" menu
3) Select Properties in the context menu.
4) Click the Target tab (for XP) or Location tab (Vista).
5) In the Target box (Target folder location in XP), type the path to the folder location that you want My Documents to be, and then click OK button. For example, D:\My Documents\. If the folder does not exist, (i.e. you forgot to do step 1) the “Create Message” dialog box is displayed. Click Yes to create the folder, and then click OK.
6) windows will then display a dialog box confirming that you want to change the location of "My Documents", and will ask if you want windows to move any existing files. Of course, you'll want windows to move the files, but if you have lots of stuff, that may take a while.
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Let us know which of the above fits your situation best, and we can better advise you.
Here's where I make the obligatory statement about doing some kind of backup. My favorite method is to use an external USB hard drive and a good backup program like Acronis true image or Norton Ghost. Total investment for hardware & software is usually < $130.00
Hope this helps |
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Michael84
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: C drive, D drive, space issues, printing problems [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| DMich wrote: |
| I am having problems with my computer due to low c: drive space (6%). I have already defragmented my computer with no help. I am wondering what I can or should \i say should use my d drive for to clear out and make space on my c drive. I know I should get a portable hard drive for music and pics but is there anything else I can do? (If advice is given can directions be given on how to do what is suggested?) |
Maybe you should try this disk usage utility? Usually it is helpful in such cases... |
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zlim
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Michael84, the OP only made one post here, has never answered questions nor returned with any sort of followup so I suspect he isn't interested in a solution. |
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drwho07
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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And, his one post was over six months ago.
Can we please stay current, with our answers? |
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jantyannie
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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your original poster may not have come back but can I just say thanks as this is exactly the question I was going to ask and I am so please to have found the answer already here 
Thanks again. |
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drwho07
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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For those of us "In The Business" of computer repair and maintenance, six months could be six years.
Many, many, advances in software and hardware have happened since this thread was opened last summer. I might have recommended some program then that has since be superseded with something a whole lot better.
My good customers call me every six months to come out and re-tune their PC's.
Within six months I will have at least three major programs to remove and replace with upgraded versions.
And with things like my own creation, "XPCleanup.bat", it's a work in progress.
So when I say something like "lets stay current", I'm not being a smartass, I'm only suggesting the best course of action.
OK?
The Doctor |
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