Free Up Disk Space After nothing worked

[Maniac13]

Hi,

I have a vaio T, with windows 7 ..

500 GB disk space, and the idiot who made the partition gave 25 GB to the C disk, that contains windows ..

Long story short, winsxs kept eating up the space, till I have absolutely nothing left now, and I can't even work, I can't see thumbnails, I can't open up images ..

I'm in online marketing, so I need this for my work ...

So now I freed up like 200 mb by deleting the download folder from the ServiceDistribution folder ..

But there is 900 mb taken by service pack 1 update thingy, and 2 GB+ taken by windows updates ...

I disabled windows updates, I just want to free those 3 GB so I can work with this computer for another year, till macbook air with retina comes up so I don't have to deal with this crap again ...


Now, when I use the disk cleanup, those files appear etc (3 GB to be freed), I click OK, it says do you want to delet these files, I click OK .. it runs the load bar for 30 seconds and so, and it closes, like it worked ..

But when I check the disk space, it just didn't work, sometimes it ends up eating like another 50 mb instead ...

I did scan disk couple times, defragmented ... nothing is working ..

Is there any method I can delete these files manually somehow ?

I'm really fruustrated and have work that needs to be done.

Really appreciate any answer.
Thanks

 

[ignatzatsonic]

You say you have only 25 GB devoted to C.

I assume your hard drive is larger than that and that you have some other partitions.

Why can't you steal space from those other partitions and add it to C?

A screen shot of Windows Disk Management might help.

 

[GokAy]

Screenshot definitely - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

Also run Disk Cleanup (there are a few tutorials)- http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/122262-windows-7-sp1-disk-cleanup-tool.html, you can tick everything safely.

 

[Maniac13]

Hi,

Thanks for answering ...

Yes I have a lot of space in the other partitions (not now but I can free some).

But is that possible ?

I remember when I tried to deal with the issue a while back, I read that you need to reinstall windows or something ?

If there is nother way to do it, then I'll just stick in another 25GB to C = problem solved!

But how exactly ?

I remember now that the computer when it came, had C and D .. c with 25 GB, D with 450 I guess ..
And I think I played around trying to add memory to C and I couldnt do that .. I ended up with another disk S that I took from D ...

But adding to C wasn't an option if I remember correctly ..


Thanks


EDIT : I used CCleaner before as well ... still not enough space

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Yes, it's possible.

With one of two applications.

Which you can use depends on your screen shot of Windows Disk Management.

Which you have not posted and need to do, per Gokay's tutorial in his post #3.

After you post that, we can advise you.

 

[Maniac13]

Screenshot definitely - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

Also run Disk Cleanup (there are a few tutorials)- http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/122262-windows-7-sp1-disk-cleanup-tool.html, you can tick everything safely.

I did try to clean up using couple softwars,
and with the command prompt I get this error (attached)

 

[GokAy]

Please attach the screenshot we asked for and we will walk you through the procedure to increase C size. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[GokAy]

I am not sure if you have SP1 installed, leave out Disk Cleanup for now

 

[Maniac13]

I am not sure if you have SP1 installed, leave out Disk Cleanup for now

I did install the update that enables you to cleanup the windows 7 stuff .. I double check that ..

anyway here is the screenshot attached

Thanks

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Hoochiemama!!!

Dynamic disks.

What do you think about that Gokay?

Probably got to get rid of them and go back to basic partitions?

I think PW can do it, but with data at some risk?

 

[GokAy]

There should be a way to go back to Basic without data loss BUT... there are no free space anywhere to work with

Partition Wizard free doesn't work with dynamic disks as far as I know

Ok, Option 1 or 2 of http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html?ltr=C

Maniac13, you should really get an external drive and backup your data before we continue with this, as it is your work machine

 

[Maniac13]

There should be a way to go back to Basic without data loss BUT... there are no free space anywhere to work with

Partition Wizard free doesn't work with dynamic disks as far as I know

Ok, Option 1 or 2 of http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html?ltr=C

Maniac13, you should really get an external drive and backup your data before we continue with this, as it is your work machine

Space is not a problem .. there is a 350 GB folder in the D disk full of crap that I can delete.

I have an external drive somewhere, Ill back uo the important files ...

Can this in any case make the computer not work somehow ? (not loss of data, I mean system error etc), cause I only have this laptop with me now and I need it (I'm abroad)

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Hold it for a minute.

How many hard drives are inside this machine?

Not partitions. Hard drives.

1 or 2?

The situation is also complicated by the fact that System Reserved and C appear to be on separate hard drives?

 

[GokAy]

Yes, it is possible it will cripple the system (even though those options listed should not cause an issue).

How does this look then:
- Delete anything that you feel is not important at all
- Get Macrium free and image backup your Hard disk to the external drive, also create the bootable CD from within Macrium. So if anything goes wrong, you can restore back in a short time.
- Use Option 1 of the dynamic to basic disk tutorial I linked earlier (this version of PW free is an older one, we will also use a new version later, don't confuse the two)
- Once the disc is set as basic, post another screenshot of Disk Management please

Ask anything that doesn't make sense, needs further clarification.

Edit: Yes, please answer the question about how many disks there are... I missed that entirely

 

[GokAy]

How can it be a such a small HDD though, maybe a hybrid SSD + HDD ?

Open Device Manager and expand Disk Drives and tell us the exact model of the drives shown.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Is this by any chance a machine with 1 hard drive, but it's a "hybrid" type of drive and might therefore appear as 2 hard drives in Windows Disk Management?

Gokay: do you know if Macrium has any problem with dynamic disks?

If there are literally 2 completely separate hard drives on the machine, I'd try to get C onto disk 0.

A separate 32 GB hard drive, which disk 1 may be, isn't of much use on this installation---just too small for Windows and it can't be enlarged. But do we know it's a separate disk in reality?

 

[Maniac13]

I don't really know if it has 2 hard drives .. can be possible,
Because I think a while back I tried to do something like this to add space form the D disk, and I failed, and I don't remember why ..

could be because there are 2 disks ?


I converted only D for now, here is a screenshot .........

 

[Maniac13]

mm, I think there are two hard drives

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Manic:

Do what Gokay asked in post 15 re Device Manager.

Before you make a bad situation worse.

 

[GokAy]

Hmm, yeah Macrium dynamic disk support is with Pro version also