How do I make space on my system drive?

[Newmaven]

I have a 1 TB system drive and several data drives. At the moment, 850 GB of C:/ is in use, and I think much of what's there should be gone or elsewhere.

For instance, 274 GB is Windows.old, even though my Win 7 was a clean install onto a brand new drive. At least some of that is content duplicated on other drives. (I note that one of my poems is in my data drive but also in windows.old\isers\me\documents\files and in c:\users\me\appData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent and in C:\users\me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\Recent. There are also some photos on C:\

What can I safely delete? What can I move to my data drives, and how do I move it?

The attached pdf gives a breakdown of the drive's contents.

 

[whs]

How do I remove the Windows.old folder?

 

[AddRAM]

You should copy and paste your data to your data drives, that`s what they are for, then reinstall windows

You should not be saving any data on C, if you create something, or download something and say hey, I want to keep that, copy it to your data drive, verify it`s there, then delete it from C.

 

[Callender]

Also for a start your System Volume Information directory is 469Gb.

Here's mine:

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So clear saved "system restore points" and check how long they are kept before being deleted. Check how much space is assigned to system restore points.

Start> Run

then type sysdm.cpl

Press Enter

On the System Protection tab choose drive C then configure.

Edit: Info on TTL registry setting (time to keep restore points)

http://www.sevenforums.com/backup-r...d-only-one-month-post2609436.html#post2609436

Forget the software mentioned unless you really need it. You can pretty much do the same manually.

 

[Layback Bear]

Disable hibernation will save "C" partition space.

Here is a insert from on of Brinks tutorial.

If you do not hibernate your computer, then you could disable hibernation and delete the hiberfil.sys file to save the space it allocates on your system hard drive (Windows 7 drive).

By default, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will be the same as the amount of installed RAM on your computer.

 

[Newmaven]

AddRam: What data can and can't I move to my data drives? And if I then reinstall, won't the reinstalled system point to the same old locations and put more data there? I think what I need is a way to move the data and tell the system to use my data drives for that hereafter.