Spare hard drive is full.

waynegohl

waynegohl

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i am using an old hard drive as a spare storage place on my pc and it keeps telling me it is full. can i delete the program file folder and the windows folder etc to clear up more space or do i need to leave some files/folders on it to keep it from not crashing or something?

thanks.
 
Depends. Do a "Set" from a command prompt and it will tell you which drives are used for program files etc. Also check disk manager to see if the disk is active/boot/system. Perhaps rename the folders first and then reboot and see what happens?
 
thanks Conrad i was just thinking now after reading your post that i have on a few occasions had to use this spare hadr drive as my primary boot hard drive (i think thats what you call it) because i had problems with my original hard drive. i think it would be better than to leave the folders alone.
 
Thanks for the prompt! ;)

I bought another Seagate FreeAgent 1TB external drive and hid it away (from the government) as I already have too many of them.

Just unpacked it and about to format it (don't want the pre-loaded software - pure data drive). :)
 
PeterCH said:
Why not ZIP up some of your old stuff? - you'll get some space back that way.
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Peter i have this popup thing that says it can compress the files and i say yes but it does nothing. if i click on properties it says 19gig and nil empty. so otherwords its packed. i have mostly my music vids and mp3s and pics on that drive.
 
waynegohl said:
Peter i have this popup thing that says it can compress the files and i say yes but it does nothing. if i click on properties it says 19gig and nil empty. so otherwords its packed. i have mostly my music vids and mp3s and pics on that drive.
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Delete the Windows swap file and/or the hybernation file as well.
The file is called: pagefile.sys
that should buy you enough space to avoid having these stupid messages
about the drive being full.
Or delete the contents of x:\WINDOWS\TEMP
or delete the cache files (IE or FF).
delete the old restore points.
 
PeterCH said:
Delete the Windows swap file and/or the hybernation file as well.
The file is called: pagefile.sys
that should buy you enough space to avoid having these stupid messages
about the drive being full.
Or delete the contents of x:\WINDOWS\TEMP
or delete the cache files (IE or FF).
delete the old restore points.
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ahh haa let me look. if you see my green light suddenly go off you know something went wrong.
 
waynegohl said:
ahh haa let me look. if you see my green light suddenly go off you know something went wrong.
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Haha. Don't delete that stuff on your current BOOT drive. Do it on the drive which is not the boot drive but which is full and bugging you. Deleting those things shouldn't mess up your Windows. It should be ok to delete the SWAP file as that is usually over a Gigabyte and you only need 300MB or so free on the HDD to avoid that silly pop-up message.
 
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