Disk D is for storing recovery configurations. To see what happened to your memory, go to the root directory C: from your "My Computer" icon. Scroll to the folders in the root. Right click each folder and select "Properties." The drive will add up all the memory being used by that folder. Take notes on what you have and then drill down into the folders that seem to be using more space than they should be. Delete stuff you don't need. Let me know if you have more questions.
30 GB is too much for the system restore partition. I thought the max was around 10GB. Are you running XP? Right click your "my computer" icon and pick properties and click the system restore tab. You should get the window below:
Click the settings button, and you should get this slidebar:
You can see that on my machine the max is only 9GB. That should be plenty. Back yours down and enjoy the breathing room. OK?
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its windows vista home basic am running, i've got these tabs coming under sytem properties: computer name; hardware; advanced;system protection; remote. looks like sytem protection is the equivalent of your system restore button, when i click it it shows the drives, but they both have no restore points (i.e. says 'None'). There is a 'system restore' button and a 'create' button withing the system protection tab. when i click the system restore i get a side window saying 'no restore points have been created on your computer disk...and info about system restore. when i clicke the 'create' it says insufficient memory to create...
i cant right click the disks and i cant find window showing disk space allocation for system restore
sorry if that not clear enough but basically dont think system restore is even runing on my sytem let alone using up space
OK, I should have asked that first. Vista doesn't set up an extra drive letter for restore, so someone must have added that partition to your machine. If you go in thru control panel and pick "System and Maintenance" you will see an option under "Administrative Tools" to set up a partition. Click there and you should get this window:
This is my Vista machine. You can see that I don't have a D: partition, but the C: drive has some space reserved for restore on the left of the lower pane. Yours should show a D: partition also for Disk 0. Right click the D: partition and pick "shrink volume". A window will show you limits. Put in the amount to shrink--say 25GB and click "Shrink." I hope this does it for you, and sorry about the XP confusion.
It just occurred to me that you may actually have a second hard drive rather than a virtual drive (partition). If that is the case, forget everything I just told you. To use that other drive, you would need to tell your computer applications to put stuff there. In fact, if that drive is bigger than your Disk 0, you may want to make that your boot drive. Hopefully this is not what you have, as it doesn't seem like a good setup.
ya tell me abt it man,it the most ridiculous setup, i do tell my application such as word to store documents to store to D but i hardly use them anyway, its mostly for internet i use my laptop. and every once in a while i have to delete history just to stop that notification 'low memory' from coming up. its realy slow and anoying...especially when u got an empty drive which is not being used ur sytem in the backgroud.
i dint get what u mean by boot drive but anyinstructions to make my sytem to use more of the D drive insted of C would be helpful. i know they are both of the same size although for C most of the space is taken by program files and the window files. also are there any folders in the windows folder which are like safe to delete, its kind of stangge its taking up 19.5gb
boot drive is the one you tell your BIOS to boot from. Since your 2 drives are equal capacity, you gain nothing by moving windows. However, you could move applications to the other drive. Anything you have the disks for can be easily uninstalled and then reinstalled to the D: drive. You could also designate D: for your temporary internet files. To do this in Internet Explorer, launch the browser, go to the tools menu and pick "Internet Options." Under the "General" tab, there is a middle section on browsing history. Click the settings button there and you should see this window:
Click that "Move Folder" button and move all that junk to D:
I would not delete any system files unless I got desperate for space. What you could try is moving some folders to D: that are not used much by Windows. From the Windows folder, click the "Date Modified" column heading to sort the folders by date last used. Anything that's not been used for a year or more is probably safe to move. Just make up a new Windows folder on D: and drag those folders over. If the system needs them later and can't find them, you can always tell it where to look or move them back. OK?
wow thats grands thats really freed up alot of space,
again thanks alot for the support much appreciated
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Hi many thanks for the quick reply, regarding the C drive i did what u recommended and it seems most of the memory is going to two folders namely progam files(8.5gb) and windows folders(19.5gb) so am not sure if its wise to touch those folders as in delete stuff. I have already deleted programs i dont use but as for the windows folder i havent touched it.
Surely there must be a way to direct windows to use the D Drive, there is abou 30gb free space. I can manually transfer/save stuff there for example i saved some pictures there. but i dont know how to direct windows to use that vacant drive
Cheers for the help
Ya tell me abt it man, its a ridiculus setup. i do tell my applications to store stuff to D but its like every now and again the C drive fills up again and it tells me low memory even tho i dont use it all, its rediculus when u have to cleaup the little space on C drive (which seems to be used up when i use the internet) when in the backgroud u have an almost empty drive which is not being used by ur sytem. i ges cant do much about the setup then? ie direct window to use drive D? i have no idea what u meant by boot drive, i know the two drives i have (C and D) are equal in terms of size although drive C has all the sytem programs and filles installed to it.
one other thing the windows folder are there files i can delete safely without causing problems, its kinda strange its taking almost 19.5gb of memory. thanks alot for the help again
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