OK so I took a screenshot of the current usage of C Drives - do you think I should turn off the system protection - will that free up the C Drive?
Also, i think I ought to delete restore points? That ought to have the same effect?
Thanks!
It looks to me that this is already a 160gb HD in a laptop, correct ?
with 4 partitions & the 100mb reserve partition for boot backup.
Y0u could do that. But that means that literally thousands of potential problems that can be easily fixed with system restore will be made unfixable, or will need to be fixed with a much more difficult method.
It looks like it is turned off because there are zero bytes used. With the current size of your C, I would not turn it on (although I would generally favor turning it on). You just do not have enough space on C. I suggest you do imaging to an external disk instead: Imaging with free Macrium
If it was me, I'd get PartedMagic, and delete those middle two partitions that don't have letters assigned to them. Then, I'd expand the C partition out to use that free unallocated space. The would nearly double your total C drive space. As I suspected near the beginning of this thread, the drive partitioning is done incorrectly.
The drive without a letter assigned houses linux ubuntu whilst the 2.20 gig I am not sure what this is....
I have uploaded the new screenshot to explain
He has a 160GB HDD if you read the 22nd post in thread. I read his initial post and thought the drive was 20GB total
OK thanks so much everyone for the really helpful replies.
Here is my plan - can u guys confirm if this is possible and do-able with ease?
So I take an image of the C and D Drives - reformat the entire machine, re-make the partitions and then reinstall the images of C and D?
That sound ok and do-able with minor headaches?
Surely replacing the hard-drive would have the same above effect no?
Thanks very much !
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