Low Disk Space

Noob911

My Acer computer keeps getting this Low Disk Space warning. I delete a bunch of files up to 1.5 GB and 2 hours later it goes back to less than 300 MB. I didn't download anything throgh that time span. My computer is somewhat old at 6 years. The model is a Acer am5630.

padgett

Have you cleaned up the drive ? - Go into File Explorer and right click on the drive select "Properties" , Disk Cleanup (to right of pie chart) then "Clean us system files" (this may take a few minutes), then you can select everything that looks big particularly old backup files (I would do a backup first) and see how much you can gain.

Leho

Noob

Another thought. Is your hard drive partitioned into 2 approx equal sized partitions, one for 'programs' and one for 'data'?

Leho

padgett

Depends on how big the drive is. I only partition drives of at least 80 GB, anything smaller I add a second drive. (or SD card)

Leho

I thought that an M5630 came with 500GB as standard.  Noob, please verify this.

Leho

 

Noob911

It came with 200GB of space. I have a C: Drive and a D one that are 100 GB each...

padgett

First open diskmgmt.msc and see what partitions are present, are any unused ?

 With 100 gb though you should not be anywhere near full. Have you run Disk Cleanup including System Files? (several threads on how).

Leho

Noob

Could it be that your C drive is the default drive for saving everything? And your D drive is almost empty?

If that is the case, manually transfer some files to D (pictures is a good one- storage space gobbler- to move).

Leho

 

Noob911

My drive is completely empty. I do disk cleanup all the time and they only delete about 50-100 MB which is nothing. I cannot delete anything out of the winsxs folder than is 10 GB in size....

Kuddel

10 GB for winsxs is okay. You should not delete anything of that folder. Otherwise you will run into other problems.

 

Check for restore points and delete them.

But do not forget to create a new one after deleting the old restore points.

padgett

Well you really have two choices. If the drive is really empty you can either move your entire documents, music, videos, and photoo directories to and redirect the library links or you can use diskmgmt.msc to remove the drive completely and expand the c: trive to use the entire disk. Your choice.

 

ps you can also open a DOS box, go to c:\, run "dir/s/a/h >files.txt". wait a while for it to get done, then open files.txt in notepad and see exactly which files are using all of your space. It will be a biiiig file.