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I'm just curious. I have a local disc C: and two storage drives. The Win7 operating system and a handful of applications are on the C: The folders on the drive add total about 28G. Yet, the blue bar shows 85G used and 85G free on the C: Why is this? Thx.

Win 7 64gb SSD with 54.72 Primary Partition and 4.9 Recovery Partition. 28gb used. 26gb free. In order to take advantage of Garbage Collection and Trim do I need to create a separate partition for Garbage Collection or will the 26gb free space be used for trim and garbage...

when I try to install the new beta I get this Error Message. "Setup was unable to use the existing partition because the system volume does not contain the required free space". The System reserved drive shows 14.7 mb free of 100 mb. That does seem pretty full doesn't it? How could I clear some...

K.. so i got this problem for the the first time.. I had 2 partitions of my 500 GB Hard disc (408gb + 60Gb) in the 60 gb one. i installed ubuntu os couple of months back, and today i formated that partition, using HBCD. i formated that partition and deleted it and then i expanded my 408 gb...

Hello: Let me say right off the bat that I'm not a fan of Windows. It just happens at the moment that I need to set up a Windows 7 system, and namely to set up a local backup. Let me give you the specs: - Windows 7 Ultimate desktop - Internal HDD: 932GB - External HDD: 1.18TB Initially I set...

Windows has stopped completing backups. A few weeks ago, I bought an external HD and began doing regular backups that completed with no problems. Now I get a message that Windows backup did not complete successfully. Message also says that the drive that Windows is installed on needs at least...

If you use Windows Live Services, you probably already have an account with Microsoft Windows Live SkyDrive, and may not even realize it. The storage service allows you to synchronize files on multiple computers and back them up using cloud computing. Like Dropbox and iCloud, the files are...

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to get the 233 GB of free space back into my C drive? Link Removed

Let me begin by saying I think Mint 12 is a terrific OS, which I am using on several computers. But I have computers on which I use Music Bee in Windows 7 for my music files and want direct boot to Windows without any disk space devoted to Mint. I spent several days looking at complicated...

Consider the following scenario: You run the "Error-checking" tool on a local disk drive. Once the checking process is completed, if you try to check the disk space of this specific drive immediately, you may notice that the free space of this disk is 0... Link Removed

In Disk Management I have three volumes: 9.11gb Healthy (Active Recovery Partition) 100% Free 50.89gb NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 40 % Free 14.53gb Healthy (Primary Partition) 100% Free What are each and do I need all of them??? Thanks.

Hey guys, I got a problem installing Gears Of War in other partition but C. I have low space free in partition C, and every time I install the game and choose a different destination it installs to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Gears Of War. Can't help it I have Installed it 4 to 5 times but...

Hi, I just finished running chkdsk with switches /f and /r on an external drive because Windows backup/restore couldn't use it to store a system image and recommended that I run it. It took a couple of hours and then the program exited with the message 'Insufficient diskspace to fix volume...

I have a desktop PC with confused partitions (see image below). 1) C: 62.50 GB NTFS (3 GB free speace, about 2%, that's a problem) 2) 8 MB unallocated 3) "Add to C2" 66 MB NTFS 4) 39.97 GB Free space 5) D: "Data" 195.54 GB NTFS I'd like to combine 1, 2, 3, and 4 into one partition. And then...

I reinstalled my windows 7 because i had a virus on my computer, they hacked me... The problem is: I reinstalled windows 7 and deleted windows.old [ 69gb ] But my (C:) should be more space than this.. I have nothing left on my computer, and i have done a disk cleanup. Why is it only...

new here so firstly, hi to all. i need some advice please, so hope some can help and am posting in the correct place. will try to describe the issues below. if i am not clear enough, let me know and i will do my best to explain better. anyway, i had win XP and win 7 installed as dual boot on one...

Hi there, I have the home premium edition of windows 7 and a have some little questions regarding disk management. First of all what will the option delete partition under the a free space will do as it is already empty ( no data is present in it ) Also, what is the difference between a free...

Hello guys, I have been looking around on many websites but I Cant find anything. My brother has borrowed a laptop but there isn't much free memory on and would like a game or his holiday, so does anybody know a good, windows7 game, under 4.6GB or can direct me to a good website! Wow, this...

Installed Windows 7 clean after a botched Ubuntu install. Wiped everything but there's still 15GB of unallocated space that I think is from an old recovery partition that I cannot associate with the 240GB (Primary partition) free space. How can I get rid of this extra 15GB? Edit: Cannot do this...

In My computer C Drive is showing red color. But there is enough free space. Please find the attachment.Link Removed