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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

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Try running treesize free

http://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

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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.

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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. . .

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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 peanuts

That would be fine if i knew what was talking up all the space, but i dont :wacko:

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yes recycling bin is empty

can i just do a factoy reset of the laptop? it was a decent and fast laptop when i got it

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?

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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

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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

Not sure if this will help on your particular model.

Toshiba (Vista) recovery procedure...

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  • 2 weeks later...

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 :P

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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 :)

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