Questions tagged [disk-space]
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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Extracting uncommon components from Windows installed on SSD
I have a 50gb SSD harddisk with windows 7 installed on it. I did this for performance for my windows installation and the related applications (Visual Studio, etc). In a projects folder I also store ...
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Defragmenting using Defraggler made the fragmentation worse and increases "used space"
I decided to do a full defragmentation of my C: drive for the first time this day. The defragmenter I use is Defraggler by Piriform. When I analyzed the drive, it detected 13% fragmentation. After ...
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Microsoft Virtual PC maximum hard disk PC
What is the maximum space that I can allocate on a MS Virtual PC 2007?
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How do I merge two unallocated, non-sequential partitions on the same logical disk?
I'm wondering if I could merge two unallocated spaces as shown in the picture below:
I would like to combine the two unallocated spaces into a single space for further partitioning.
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Running out of space installing .Net Framwork on a thin client
I'm providing this as a new Question and answer because the tags on this older thread don't include some more generic tags that I searched on when looking for a solution. This should work for all ...
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6tb hard drive only showing 1.49tb of unallocated space
I'm not sure if this is a bios thing or what, It dosn't matter if the drive is using MBR or GPT. It always gives me only 1.49tb of unallocated space while in my system.
For some reason if I hook up ...
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size of the disk is more than the size of the files on the disk
I am using windows 7. my c: drive capacity is 75 gb. where the Os is located. The size of the files on the disk is only 50 gb including hidden files. But used space of c drive shows 60Gb. Where the ...
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SD card has 26gb large "file" [duplicate]
Windirstat shows a large unknown something of 26gb!
I have a Samsung 128gb microsd in win10 oct update. I cannot see it in explorer. So I tried to run Ubuntu (from win store) and mounted the sd.
$ ...
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How to Extend the Primary Boot C Drive Partition - Extend Option Grayed Out [duplicate]
I see the "Extend Partition" option is grayed out in the Disk Management tool and as far as I can understand I need to move my data to another drive and change the drive letters.
This is something I ...
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Strange Disk/Folder size issues (different results)
On windows 10 x64 machine, with WD Purple Drive 4TB
I have a MAIN folder located at
R:/Backup/Main Folder
inside the that are lots of sub folders such as resources, projects, and what nots.
Now, ...
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Why is my HDD missing about 35 GB? [duplicate]
I have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go?
This is what my HDD looks like in the ...
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Where did 100GB go?
I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop.
cfdisk shows 150GB hard disk which is correct.
Baobab shows 56GB only.
Also, wherever I try to download something using Transmission torrent client it ...
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