marcusgrant Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Hi,Basically my laptop hard drive is full but i have no idea what with. Its operating system is vista home premium.the lap top has two hard drives built into it, both 40gb (bit of an old laptop!)The main hard drive is Vista (C:)...this currently has 272kb of space! There is barely anything on this as a while back it was apparently full so i moved all my music, documents, photos and so on onto the other drive (E:). I've gone through the list of programmes and deleted/uninstalled everything I dont use, all it has on it really is microsoft office, internet programmes, spotify and few other small programmes. There is no way that i have filled up 40gb on this hard drive.Also on my (E:) drive its saying there is 20gb taken, this cant be true either. There is a '7T' file that is 877mb on there, what is that?Cheers for any help,Marcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikemad04 Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Vista eats your memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam-R Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Delete your temporary Internet files folder.. Job done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgrant Posted January 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Delete your temporary Internet files folder.. Job done I've done this already...well i think so. internet properties > browsing history > tempory files checked > delete. still no space..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmanncfc Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Try running treesize freehttp://www.jam-software.com/freeware/Its a bit of software which shows you where the space is being taken up on your system Chris:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clairey Fairy Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 It's full of Porn you dirty bitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgrant Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Try running treesize freehttp://www.jam-software.com/freeware/Its a bit of software which shows you where the space is being taken up on your system Chris:-)I'll try that later, cheers It's full of Porn you dirty bitch.probs!Sure you have 2 hard drives and it isnt just 1 partitioned?could well be one partitioned, but if they have different name? the laptop saves everything to the C drive and i have to move stuff to the E drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver! Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Would be unusual for a laptop to have the space for 2 HDDs.I would start with a bigger HDD and a rebuild of Vista or preferably Windows7.Stick the old HDD in an external closure to get your data off and then format it as one volume and keep it as a mobile disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Would be unusual for a laptop to have the space for 2 HDDs.I would start with a bigger HDD and a rebuild of Vista or preferably Windows7.Stick the old HDD in an external closure to get your data off and then format it as one volume and keep it as a mobile disc.I have two HDD's in mine. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobiasnugent Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 just buy an external hard drive can pick them up for peanuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgrant Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Would be unusual for a laptop to have the space for 2 HDDs.I would start with a bigger HDD and a rebuild of Vista or preferably Windows7.Stick the old HDD in an external closure to get your data off and then format it as one volume and keep it as a mobile disc.That sounds like a lot of work. The 40gb drive that it uses should be more than enough for what i use my laptop for. The issue is that i cant see how i've filled it up as there is barely anything on it? no music, no vidoes, no documents, no photos.This. Will just be 1 hdd partioned with 2 different letters assigned to them. Could try defragging the hdd if its that full, will probably take hours so best to do it over night. Try use a good 3rd party software as the windows defrag tool is a bit hit and miss.I'll try that, cheers.just buy an external hard drive can pick them up for peanutsThat would be fine if i knew what was talking up all the space, but i dont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treblet Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Silly question but have you emptied your recycle bin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgrant Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 yes recycling bin is emptycan i just do a factoy reset of the laptop? it was a decent and fast laptop when i got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfbr Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Is it Windows based? If so, that's where your problem is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgrant Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 (edited) lol... id love a new laptop but its not going to happen at the moment. let alone a mac Edited January 17, 2011 by marcusgrant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver! Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 yes recycling bin is emptycan i just do a factoy reset of the laptop? it was a decent and fast laptop when i got itIf you have the disc or created one when you got it and haven't wiped the 'recovery partion' you should be able to.There may just be a key press on start. What make of laptop is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgrant Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 If you have the disc or created one when you got it and haven't wiped the 'recovery partion' you should be able to.There may just be a key press on start. What make of laptop is it?i'll see if i've still got the box for it...maybe a disk in that. my mate had a dell and he just did a factory reset on that, couldnt of been too hard as he has about the same knowledge as me with pc's (zero)Toshiba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver! Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 i'll see if i've still got the box for it...maybe a disk in that. my mate had a dell and he just did a factory reset on that, couldnt of been too hard as he has about the same knowledge as me with pc's (zero)ToshibaNot sure if this will help on your particular model.Toshiba (Vista) recovery procedure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashh Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I'd just do what somebody else has already said, get an external hard drive, i got my 1TB one for 50 quid, dumped all my stuff on that. No documents or anything saved onto the laptops (Also a toshiba) HDD. Runs so much better, Upgrading to windows 7 Also helped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusgrant Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 forgot about this! i managed to delete 700mb of space, i cant remember how now though lol. Something to do with the internet though (not just tempory files - something about it remebering stuff to make the internet faster)It will still need sorting out in the future though so thanks for everyones help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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