O/S partition full

[Lyn2012]

I have a 250GB hard drive and originally allocated 10GB as O/S partition, 10GB for programs and the rest for data.

However, my system now shows the O/S partition to be 98% full and I have no idea why. The information stored there is:-

Documents & Settings 3.17GB
KPCMS 0KB
Program Files 429MB
Windows 1.98GB
Debug 36 KB
AVG7QT 11.6MB

Obviously this adds up to far less than the 9.78GB that shows as being used and I have no idea where to go from here. I can't even defragment the drive as it thinks there is not enough free space. Can anyone help me please.

[Ankerson]

Have you done a disk cleanup yet?

Also do a virus scan and check for adware etc.

Check your Docs and settings folder to see how big that is, that might be the problem.

[Lyn2012]

and My Docs is on another far larger partition. I also posted on another board and it has just been suggested to turn off System Restore wgich deletes all restore points and then to reboot. I did this and recovered nearly 5G of the drive space so it must be the system restores that don't show up as folders or files onthe drive.... crazy way of doing things!

Anyway, many thanks for your input ..... have a good weekend, Lyn

[Ankerson]

Yeah System restore takes up a bunch of room.

[Baddog]

You might want to make at least one restore point now that you have deleted the old ones. :cool:

[Sterling_Aug]

Have you moved the swap file to another partition yet?

[Midknyte]

just reduce the amount of space allocated to system restore.

i don't see the point of having an applications partition. you'll have to reinstall them anyway if the OS gets corrupted.

[Lyn2012]

Yes I've already created a new restore point and reduced the amount of storage allocated to them.

Re moving the swap file - which file are you referring to?

[Sterling_Aug]

The swap file.

Click Start/control panel/system/advanced tab/performance settings/advanced tab/virtual memory change button/custom size. Change tehe drive assigned at th top from th c: to the d: (or whatever other partition you want, even spread it across multiple partitions).

[r8500]

just reduce the amount of space allocated to system restore.

i don't see the point of having an applications partition. you'll have to reinstall them anyway if the OS gets corrupted.


I guess so you don't lose your data if the OS drive goes bye bye

[Midknyte]

but he/she has a separate data partition. a partition for just apps is unnecessary.