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1. DashArmy said on December 23, 2010, 09:17:57 PM (-08:00)

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...on a partition.

Oh my.

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2. Jaredvcxz said on December 24, 2010, 05:48:38 AM (-08:00)

Giratina
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http://windirstat.info/

Use that to fnd out what's eating your drive. It may take a long time depending on drive size and system power.

3. Quadcentruo said on December 24, 2010, 12:36:32 PM (-08:00)

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Do what I do to free up some space - go through the program files and delete anything that you don't use anymore or is completely useless.

4. Jaredvcxz said on December 24, 2010, 03:18:09 PM (-08:00)

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Also use this to clean out all the crap that Windows and Firefox etc generate. One time I cleared a few gigabytes of pooooooop.

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5. FreezeWarp said on December 24, 2010, 03:22:55 PM (-08:00)

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Yeah, definitely use Jared's CCleaner (linked above/below).

To get rid of space in the meantime, go to the control panel, performance and maintaince, and then "free up disk space" (or something like that). You'll usually need to select a drive (probably the C drive), it will spend about 10 minutes calculating, and you can probably free up a couple gigs with the "Compress Old Files" option.

Also, if the Recycle Bin is full... you may want to clear it.

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6. Quadcentruo said on December 25, 2010, 06:04:31 AM (-08:00)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by FreezeWarp View Post
Also, if the Recycle Bin is full... you may want to clear it.
Because Windows needs to double check that you are deleting something that is completely useless and all it does is take up space on the hard drive.

7. Jaredvcxz said on December 25, 2010, 06:35:36 AM (-08:00)

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Actually it's because people are idiots and delete things they shouldn't have, and the recycle bin exists to protect the average person from scrwewing their computer sideways. Don't be a hater.

8. .name//Technomancer said on December 25, 2010, 12:25:54 PM (-08:00)

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Low disk space? What's that?

Seriously, you might have too many copy images or videos on your HDD. Filter through your saved documents and weed out what's unnecessary, or drop the resolution/.kps of music and image files. I once ate up five hundred gigs of space cause I had a couple hundred 8-bit songs pumped up to 320kps with uncompressed data tracking.

Also, stop downloading software. :3

9. FreezeWarp said on December 25, 2010, 02:10:49 PM (-08:00)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Quadcentruo View Post
Because Windows needs to double check that you are deleting something that is completely useless and all it does is take up space on the hard drive.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaredvcxz View Post
Actually it's because people are idiots and delete things they shouldn't have, and the recycle bin exists to protect the average person from scrwewing their computer sideways. Don't be a hater.
Personally I use Linux's (...well, KDE's) recycling bin just as an archive. I mean, if I have disk space I'd like the files to be there just in case I ever need them. And when it is full, I just chuck it into /dev/null.

...I also archive every download, even once I've unextracted it or whatever. Really, I just can't stand to delete something for good unless I need the space

10. DashArmy said on December 26, 2010, 02:45:04 PM (-08:00)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaredvcxz View Post
[url]what's eating your drive
So I either somehow increase the space of the partition Z:/ or install it onto a different one.

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