No disk space


  1. Posts : 19
    indows 7 home permium 64 bit
       #1

    No disk space


    I have a Dell Aspiron laptop that came with the recovery partition on drive C and the main drive as drive D. Needless to say, the C drive partition is small with no room left. It also has a couple of programs in it that I couldn't force into drive D. Now the problem is that Windows 10 wants to load into drive C but there isn't enough room. The D drive has over 350 GB of free space. Is there a way to force the Windown 10 download into the D drive or is there another fix?
    Dave
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  2. Posts : 31,242
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
       #2

    You could try re-aranging the partitions you have to give the space you need - simply reduce the size of the one partition and add the released space to the system partition I have a 256 GB SSD but around 128 to 150 GB total should be OK)

    I suggest the free Partition Wizard CD (as you will be working on system partition )

    https://www.partitionwizard.com/part...otable-cd.html
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  3. Posts : 19
    indows 7 home permium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I don't know if that would work because the Windows 7 program is on drive D. This new Win 10 would be updating it so I think it would have to be on the same drive. What I think I need is a way to have the update go to Drive D instead of drive C.
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  4. Posts : 4,751
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
       #4

    dach162 said:
    I don't know if that would work because the Windows 7 program is on drive D. This new Win 10 would be updating it so I think it would have to be on the same drive. What I think I need is a way to have the update go to Drive D instead of drive C.
    It will help if you could post a screen shot of you Disk Management. Be sure and spread the columns so we can read all of the print. Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
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  5. Posts : 7,100
    W7 home premium 32bit/W7HP 64bit/w10 tp insider ring
       #5

    Something ODD here.
    Dell put the OS on C, D is usually the data drive AND recovery is usually on a hidden drive.

    However if you want to upgrade to 10, follow this clean install link from our W10 sister site
    Clean Install Windows 10 Directly without having to Upgrade First - Windows 10 Forums


    Roy
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  6. Posts : 19
    indows 7 home permium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Screen shot is on the attachment
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails No disk space-disk-1.gif  
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  7. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #7

    dach162 said:
    the Windows 7 program is on drive D.
    What makes you believe that Windows is on D rather than C?

    I don't see anything unusual or wrong about your Disk Management picture other than the fact that C is nearly full.

    You need to rob space from D and give it to C.

    Partition Wizard can do that.

    What does Windows Explorer show as the folders on the D partition? It has about 32 GB of something. What is that something?
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  8. Posts : 318
    Windows 10 x64
       #8

    Get a bigger drive. For much less than $100 you can get a bigger (and faster) drive. You'll be glad you did.
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