How come my C drive is filling up when I keep everything on my D drive?
by Guest Geek on January 23, 2009Q: I have a Sony PCV-RZ22G desktop with an Intel Pentium 4 and 512 MB RAM. I am running Windows XP Service pack 2. I had a window failure and reinstalled windows and my recovery disks for the system and applications. When I did this my D drive kept all files etc. I am slowly adding software and I have run out of room on my C drive. I don’t understand how since I thought I would be starting like new. I just don’t understand how D drive has room and C drive is full when more seems to be on D drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Tags: system restore, Windows XP
Have you tried checking your temp folder? C:\WINDOWS\temp
. Hope i helped.
Try deleting all the files in that folder. If that didn’t work, get “Auslogics BoostSpeed”. Its an excellent software, that has a utility that wipes the disk clean, so it makes sure that the files you have removed earlier, cannot be undeleted. I freed about 5gb on my drive with that one. There are alot more of those nifty little tools in Auslogics BoostSpeed, and its all in one package. Check it out
Sekhmat says: on January 23, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Thanks for your reply. I had done disk cleanup and all the normal things. I decided to invest in a portable hard drive to transfer files over. I have taken all the D files off that I could. I was able to transfer some C files also. I was able to free up enough room so I could install some things. Heck, I couldn’t even do a disk refrag because I didn’t have enough free space. I will take a look at BoostSpeed program you mentioned. Thanks again for helping.
momaddis says: on January 24, 2009 at 2:39 am
That’s weird.. Hope it works out for you
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Sekhmat says: on January 24, 2009 at 8:11 am
Download CCleaner (Google for it), it removes any temp files stored on the HDD and cleans out any unused registry keys from the registry tree.
Joe says: on January 24, 2009 at 7:27 am