I have a Compaq laptop (Presario) that's a few years OLD. It runs Windows XP. A relative gave it to me when they got a NEW computer. My problem is that it says the drive is full even though there doesn't seem to be enough tuff for it to be full.
I have about 7gb of files in the Document folder on C drive + 2gb of music in the shared folder. There are many programs installed but when I look on the list they are VARYING sizes that don't seem as if they'd add up to more than maybe 2gb at most, yet C drive is listed as full with maybe 1gb free space and 28gb used. I can't understand what is hogging all the space. D partition holds the OS and is listed as being about 7gb with 1gb free space.Let's start by disabling system restore (as soon as you do, all restore points will be deleted, but you can immediately re-enable it if you like and change the space allotment). That should free a lot of space. You can also download and run treesize to see where the space is being used (http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml)I'd suggest also running Windows Disk Cleanup utility. Disk defragmentation also helpful for U!Quote from: seeneedee on September 12, 2010, 08:39:46 AM

Disk defragmentation also helpful for u!