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Answer» I use a Samsung laptop. The local disk (C:) is full (1.01 GB free of 178 GB). My music is not playing and cannot access my downloads. Local disk (D:) has 212 GB free of 267 GB. Can I use local disk (D:) and how to do so? I have an external drive that is also full.I'm shocked it evens loads Windows...general rule of thumb Win needs approx 15% free disk space to OPERATE properly... I'm shocked it evens loads Windows...general rule of thumb Win needs approx 15% free disk space to operate properly I have seen worse. A PERSON came to me with all but 23MB used up. They thought they had a virus because it slowed way down and had issues launching games. They didnt know that their hard drive was filled up. Which was a surprise they didnt see the low disk space warning at the taskbar to know that it was a full hard drive. Also saw a person who was desperate for a Diablo III game install on a laptop with small hard drive set their swap space to bare minimum which was like 2 MB in which there was pretty much no swap space and system RAM was mainly relied upon instead. It allowed him to install and run Diablo III on that system which otherwise would not have FIT, but the system crawled. Checking into the specs of the laptop I suggested getting a better laptop or desktop as for the GPU and CPU were weak and even if he had a large enough hard drive to have adequate swap space the performance was going to be poor. Solution was to GET their family videos that were adding up to 8GB per CAMERA connect off of the C: drive and move them to an external in which instantly 449GB of space was now readily available again of the 500GB HDD. And for the guy with the D3 on the old laptop with 80GB HDD to get a new laptop.If system restore is enabled, start by disabling it. That will immediately free up a LOT of space. Then you can follow the instructions above.system restore was never enabledOkay. Well if you've deleted everything in the temp folder(s) and Temporary Internet File Folder, see if you can do as patio suggested and run Treesize.I ran TreeSize and the biggest user of space is Pictures...76.2 GB (63.6%) and Documents 27.9 GB (23.6%) I have a lot of picture filesI can't imagine 72Gb of pictures (or 28Gb of docs, for that matter). Are you certain those are legitimate files and not malware? If so, you'll have to just move the photos over do d: drive (I'm guessing that's a second partition on the same drive?).Move them ...as i suggested...How to move the files? |
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