storage management

At a basic level choosing to upgrade to the next build in Windows 10 Tech Preview is almost like an upgrade to a new os. This leaves behind such folders as windows.old which usually contain files that were used in your previous version of Windows. If like me you use an SSD then every GB is...

I am seeking to get rid of unwanted material on my system prior to backing it up. I have been surprised to learn from programs such as Glary Utilities Disk Space Analyzer that I have on my external hard drive F a huge System Volume Information folder--16.32 GB. Windows Explorer tells me when I...

I have a new Lenovo computer with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. I'm going to partition it into drives C, D, E and F. It has a 1 Terabyte hard drive (actually 918 GB) I need to allow sufficient space in the C partition for the W7P operating system PLUS Virtual XP, which I plan to install...

Hi all Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I would like to *safely *expand *by magic or something a D drive.. (* obligatiory) I'm using something that is eating space on D, and we've already configured the server that there'a nothing left to give from C. I need to run some processes...

Hi, On XP Drive 0 I have C: with XP and have another couple of drives as well. and Drive 1 is F: Primary and G: Extended each about 37GB. I have Drive 2 D: 80GB Extended partition... I want to join both F and G together as 1 partition mainly the G: one. Though Disk Mgmt Storage...

I'm getting a new Lenovo G510 (or possibly Z500) in a few days, and was trying to decide how to manage the operating systems I'm going to install. What I would like to do is: Primary Partition - Ubuntu or Mint (Most Frequently Used) Primary Partition - Storage Extended Partition 2 logical...

Hi I need a little help installing 8.1 on a ssd.... In short, yesterday I purchased a new HP ENVY 700-230eq desktop that runs on a quad core 4th gen. I7 processor 16gb of ram it also runs on a 2gb. Grafics card and a 2 tb. hhd. And last but not least it works all this great hard ware on the...

Greetings. I have my backup running automatically, doing a backup every 7 days. Yesterday I noticed the back up kept running, until it racked up 73 folders totaling 12.2GB. Whereas the last backup was 172MB in one folder. The 1-5-14 backup was: 94KB and 180,416KB in two folders. 12-22-13...

I recently got an external hard drive, and I need help. I finally got Windows running good, after the recent update to 8.1...I do see I have on optimize drives C drive, Winretools(12% fragmented), PBR Image, and some long winded VOLUME file. The VOLUME file is 56% fragmented, and even though...

I have just installed a 250GB ssd for my OS, progs and a relatively small My Documents. I'm storing Pictures and Videos data on a 1TB internal disk and I have redirected My Videos and My Pictures to that drive. I'm backing up to an external 1 TB disk, but backup doesn't complete. Properties...

So, I have a Windows 7 box that I use as a home server. I store all kinds of shared files on the machine include music, pictures, videos, home movies, work related, kids' homework, everything. I created the computer with two hard drives including a SDD drive that i use for the System's core...

My computer system is windows8. When I try to download something or just run some programs, a warning would show up and said that I have low disk space. How can I clear my disk space? Also, I wonder a simple disk defragmentation could be enough. Many thanks.

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I used to map a NAS drive on my Win 7 Pro 32 bit machine. Now the mapping is no longer available. I go to the "Map Network" and the letter is GONE. I can still access the NAS HDD via "network" in the Windows explorer. but I have links constrcuted around that drive letter. HOW DO I DELETE AND...

How do I change the amout of storage reserved for SystemRestorePoints on partition D? Is there a Registry entry for that? As I found out the current number of days my RestorePoints are kept is 90 days. How can I increase these number of days? Is there a Registry entry for that? If I change...

Hi, I have been using the Tuneup Shredder feature of Tuneup Utilities for quite a time. When it showed the option of "Delete the free allocated Space", I enquired about it but the answer was quite misleading on the website. So I ended up "Selecting" that option. I have used it for a number of...

One of the four basic Libraries is Music. I found thousands (yes!) files in that Library, most of them I have no idea about and have absolutely nothing to do with music. Windows said they are references and deleting them will not remove the actual file from the PC. I found that incorrect, I...

Hello all, After installing the April batch of Windows 8 Updates, I noticed there was a dramatic increase in my 60 GB SSD hard disk usage (almost a 5 GB increase right after the Updates). To cut to the quick, I determined that the updates had arbitrarily increased the size of my hiberfil.sys...

I added an SSD to my PC yesterday and have managed to get windows installed on it. As I didn't remove my old HDD with windows on it before there was a little messing around to get windows installed on the SSD and I've somehow managed to end up with the 100Mb of unallocated space that would be...

I've tried posting this question to the MS pro forums and a couple of other places with no luck, and am getting truly desperate. At this point, I'd be happy just to know if it's something wrong with the configuration, or if this is a fundamental Win7 problem. I recently started managing a...