Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Original Title: hard drive space failure I cannot free up space on my C: drive in Windows 7. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Don't turn it off if you use the feature. Windows 7 keeps backups of lots of system files every time something major such as driver installation and software installations happens, and after a while this can take up lots of space.
You may completely turn it off to release all disk space or decrease the space usage for System Restore. Click Configure in System Protection tab, there are 3 options and select one, you can adjust the maximum disk space usage or system protection by dragging on Max Usage bar. Turning off system protection won't delete all restore points automatically, to do this, you should click the Delete button on the bottom.
Page file is used by Windows as RAM and it's located in C drive by default, you can decrease it or set it to other volume. Consider uninstall the programs that you no longer or seldom use, the more program uninstalled, the more disk space will be released.
Some program such as Games, Projects and Videos output very large files, you may modify the default output path to other volume and transfer these files to new locations. This is a great feature of NTFS files system. If you've got a bunch of folders with old crap in them, but you don't want to delete them, then consider compressing them to save disk space. To do this, right click C drive and click Properties , click the check-box of Compress this drive to save disk space.
To a Windows 7 computer that never free up disk space, you may reclaim over 10 Gigabytes disk space, however, this is not the final step. Many people feedback that C drive becomes full again after freeing up disk space. Because new junk files are generated continuously, so 10GB free space will be eaten up quickly. If all the above solutions do not help you to free up enough space on your disk.
You can extend the c drive by using the free space of other partitions in your computer. The above solutions are very likely to help you to free up disk space in windows 7,8, Then try finding a bigger hard disk to add to your system. In case of any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us.
After you have found something, proceed to step 2 to duplicate them elsewhere. This one is easy. Now we need to delete the original folders in drive C. Double click to run the file syscmd.
And you will enter a command line interactive mode with SYSTEM privileges which basically grant you full rights to the computer — you can do whatever you want now. After these 3 steps, my C drive is successfully reduced in size by 5.
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