Windows 7 Disk Space Problem

[Capt.Jumbo]

I am currently running Windows 7 64bit operating system. I have been using it for about 4 years now and it works not problem. Recently I have been seeing that the available disk space is getting smaller and smaller until i have only a couple hundred MB. I have run full CCleaner with almost every thing checked and I have deleted everything i can in the temp folder and this only increases the available size to maybe 1 GB and then its reduced again.  The OS is installed on 60 GB partition of a 500 GB seagate hard drive. I was planning to reinstall the OS but am not sure if i should or what i should do welp

[gojira]

I am currently running Windows 7 64bit operating system. I have been using it for about 4 years now and it works not problem. Recently I have been seeing that the available disk space is getting smaller and smaller until i have only a couple hundred MB. I have run full CCleaner with almost every thing checked and I have deleted everything i can in the temp folder and this only increases the available size to maybe 1 GB and then its reduced again.  The OS is installed on 60 GB partition of a 500 GB seagate hard drive. I was planning to reinstall the OS but am not sure if i should or what i should do welp

 

Have you tried disc defragmentation? It may also help to move documents, pictures, and similiar files to the cloud and delete them from your hard drive. Hotmail/outlook has Onedrive which can be downloaded and accessed from your desktop or from the email directly. It might also help to buy another 500 gig drive..they aren't very expensive.

[Rappelin]

Have you ran a disc cleanup? 
Also you could try to download a program called SpaceSniffer that checks what's taking up space
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

[Capt.Jumbo]

Have you tried disc defragmentation? It may also help to move documents, pictures, and similiar files to the cloud and delete them from your hard drive. Hotmail/outlook has Onedrive which can be downloaded and accessed from your desktop or from the email directly. It might also help to buy another 500 gig drive..they aren't very expensive.

 

I didnt try a defragmentation as yet i can try it.

Also i dont store anything on that partition, programs are store on the rest of the 500 GB hard drive and i have a 1 TB hard drive to store everything games, pictures, documents etc.

[Capt.Jumbo]

Have you ran a disc cleanup? 

Also you could try to download a program called SpaceSniffer that checks what's taking up space

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

Only disk cleanup i did was CCleaner with everything checked. I can try that software and see what happens.

[Capt.Jumbo]

I was just wondering if i should bother trying to make space or i should just reinstall OS. Also if i reinstall the OS wouldnt the space be fill up sooner or later?

[Chavez300]

this topic is more for the Troubleshooting yes?

[Capt.Jumbo]

Not sure should I post there instead ? After using the SpaceSniffer application i can see where the data is being used.

 

Looks like some applications can be moved so i can free up space such as Heartstone, Nividia drivers.

[Capt.Jumbo]

Ok so from doing everything that was said in this tread the drive went from a couple MB of space to 11 GB of free space :lol: B)
Thank you so much for the advice. I still think i can make some more free space. Am wondering now do my fellow computer enthusiast here, do these kind of things regualarly ?

[Capt.Jumbo]

I do those two things every once in a while, mainly after driver/Windows updates and after uninstalling a bunch of programs.

I discovered those things when I had a problem with Nividia drivers bug that prevented the update to finish and rolled back to the previous driver many times, and that filled half of my SSD. =]

Yes i been having that same problem thats why i started clearing it out.

But now am confused again because after i got that 10 GB of free space i turn of my pc and when i came back i have 2 GB of free space WT....... where did it go

[Capt.Jumbo]

I ran the programs again and there is nothing to clean up. When i ran SpaceSniffer I found a file pagefile.sys thats 7.9 GB. Am guessing thats the problem. But there isnt a file location for it. Should i just delete it ?

 

[Capt.Jumbo]

Ok so i changed the pagefile, also disabled hibernate mode, some google chrome shockwave flash stuff and the Nvidia Temp folder and i have gained 26GB of free space this is almost the same amount i have after installing windows so i will stick with that. Hopefully it doesn't disappear again. Still checking through too see what other temp files i can delete stuff from  Thank you so much Gabriel for all your help

[Blake]

delete the old nvidia driver installers. when you run the exe it will extract to the program files directory. You have about 10+ old installers sitting there. also might want to look at Jumbo's %appdata% folder, it is quite large.