D drive maxed out

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2009/05/08 22:22:49 (permalink)

D drive maxed out

Hello,

I have been getting the 'no more room on your hard disk' message for about 2 years now.
It's referring to my "D" drive. It's the drive for system restore.
Now I have about 3mb of room left on it.
Can/should i get the files on there on to a DVD and then take them off the drive to give it some room?

Not sure how to alleviate this problem as I fear it's causing my pc to run very slow.

Thanks!

s o n g s

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    RLD
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    RE: D drive maxed out 2009/05/08 23:22:26 (permalink)
    Replace it with a larger drive and copy the files to the new one.

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    RE: D drive maxed out 2009/05/09 05:57:16 (permalink)
    You could try deleting some old restore points.

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    RE: D drive maxed out 2009/05/09 06:15:46 (permalink)
    Now I have about 3mb of room left on it.


    You better fix that better sooner than later, drives hate being too full, I when I get close to 10% alarm bells go off here. OS drives even way before that.

    Move any files off it that you can, by adding a 1TB external or whatever, is pretty cheap storage these days.

    Don't forget to have windows defragment the files afterwards, is probably a mess.

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    RE: D drive maxed out 2009/05/09 09:17:48 (permalink)
    I agree. Just get a larger drive or two. They're so cheap that you could think of them as the new floppy, I have nearly as many hd's as I had fd's!!!

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    RE: D drive maxed out 2009/05/09 12:16:14 (permalink)
    Thank you for the replys,

    I already have a new storage drive with oogles of space.

    I did a system restore and now the over filled drive says it has 1gb of space on it.

    NOt sure why it does but i'm happy.

    Thank you again!

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    RE: D drive maxed out 2009/05/09 12:33:19 (permalink)
    That was probably not the cleverest thing to do - now *something* you installed recently got removed, maybe more.

    Point is - you have no idea *what*.

    The idea is to move files from that drive manually, so you get more space. Can't imagine that drive ONLY contains restore info. How big is it, anyway?

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    RE: D drive maxed out 2009/05/09 12:38:18 (permalink)
    I did save all my program files onto the storage drive if i need them.

    The restore drive is 6GB total.

    s o n g s

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