I am in strife again I went to clone my 120GB SSD to a 256GB SSD this afternoon and the Macrium will not start because it tells me the disk is full does not have enough space. I have uninstalled a lot of stuff that I thought would free up the disk but it is still showing a completely full disk in Properties.
Can anyone tell me how to get out of this? as nothing I try seems to have any effect on the capacity of the drive
If the 256 GB drive is the target, why not just format it or delete all partitions?
You can't even start Macrium on the 120 GB drive, where it is installed?
Are you trying to clone ALL partitions on the 120 to the 256? Or just some of them?
Its installed on the 120GB and it is full and after trying to remove most of the programs, music library etc it was still full and not letting me even uninstall some stuff because there wasn't enough space on the disk to do that and it isn't starting at all now.
Never mind it was an upgrade to 8.1 and I really didn't like it that much. I have an image/s of the rotten thing anyway if I want to play around with it but being on this 7 forum most of the time it was a bit awkward to use because of showing pics of settings etc.
I shall just have to reinstall the original 7 on the 256GB drive and reinstall my pics and music etc. It is my secondary machine now (laptop) it is just the thought of a reinstall
Try to unclog your 120 GB drive.
Click on Start. In the search field type %temp% and open the temp folder shown. Select all and do a Shift+Del. Except for a few folders and files that are current ( leave those alone), you should be able to delete most left-overs.. Check how much space is released. Sometimes it may surprise you, especially if you had been using the photo, audio, video processing. They create many GBs of temp folders/files.
Ok Jumanji I will try that tomorrow as I cannot get past the machine trying to repair itself and if I can get back to the desktop. But I am not holding my breath because it will not even start in safe mode now.
The drive has been telling me for a while it is nearly full but stupidly I took not much notice. If I want to get it back I have to reinstall 7 then use the 8 upgrade disk and then see if it will upgrade to 8.1 - which was free at the time - plus I have the image. But that seems to be a lengthy task and I am in no hurry. My problem is I do things too quickly and well end up in the deep end of the pool
You could also try booting from a Linux CD and see if you can delete temp files on the Windows drive from Linux.
If you do manage to delete enough to get Windows to boot, try TFC Temp File Cleaner.
TFC Download
In some cases I've found a lot of temp files with this tool that can be deleted.
If you can boot Windows you could also turn off Hibernate (if it's enabled), and reduce the pagefile size on the Windows partition.
Ok David I can try that too I use Ubuntu normally but I do have the Linux Mint MATE bootable drive.
I deleted some reg files for some of the software I took off and perhaps I messed it up like that too, but I would have thought it would have safe mode booted all the same.
Not taking a trick these last couple of months my run of bad luck must end soon
Maybe too many restore points. My system constantly resets the amount of drive space to use at 50%. I don't need 228 GBs of restore points.
Bill
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Avast is known to cause problems for some, setting the drive space to 50% for restore points.
I think Avast NG is the culprit, if you have that option installed ...
As a matter of fact I do use Avast. Thanks I will look into it.
Bill
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