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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Reclaim disk space after deleting Outlook Emails
I have thousands of emails that I will be deleting from Outlook shortly. I am hoping to free some disk space after doing so. Will Outlook automatically release the memory used by emails after I delete ...
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Why a "Not enough space on disk" error on 7zip even with sufficient space?
I am using 7-zip to split a large folder (>200 GB) into chunks of 4.7GB so that I can burn them onto a DVD. But for now, I am storing these chunks in an external hard disk which has ~300GB of space. ...
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Lost disk space in Windows 7, cannot find the missing
My hard drive is complaining it is low on disk space, but a strange thing seems to be happening:
Explorer reports 10Gb of available space (on a 120 Gb hard disk), chkdsk in the command prompt does the ...
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How to increase virtual hard drive space
I have a Microsoft Virtual PC hard drive (.vhd format) that's maxed out at 16GB. What would be the best way to increase this disk space?
Booting into the machine (Windows XP Professional) and using ...
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Hungry Time Machine
i have Time Machine, enabled on my mac in manual mode.
Each day, i making a backup by clicking "Backup Now".
Each time, a few Gb are used, to do the backup.
The question is - Why so much ?
Each day i ...
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Hard drive disk size smaller than labeled - 320GB drive contains only 60GB
I worked on a computer for a family member and got them a larger hard drive, going from 60GB to 320GB. I used Acronis True Image to copy the disk, and since I didn't have a USB enclosure for the bare ...
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Hard Drive Shows 122 GB used after fresh install of Windows, 18 GB of actual files?
I just installed Win 7, but did not format the drive. Windows shows that 122 GB of drive space has been consumed. Clearly this seems strange, so I selected everythign under the C: drive (including ...
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Low disk space on drive C with Windows 10
I have a "haier laptop y11b" it have 2 disks:
SSD card of 29 GB, C drive on which windows 10 is installed
HDD 465 GB
Previously Windows 8.1 was installed on this laptop and all the apps were ...
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Increase root disk space
New to Linux, I want to increase the size of disk space in fedora-root and it appears that theres ~16GB of available space in other filesystems. Is this a correct assessment? Below I provide the ...
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Why am I missing space on my hard drive in Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is the effective hard drive size lower than the actual size?
I have an HP Pavilion DM4 with a 750 GB hard drive. A few days ago, I installed Windows 8 on it, so I am now ...
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Windows 10 not showing files and folders in E drive
I've partitioned my HDD into 4 parts - C, D, E, H drives. Recently E drive got full. After that, its files and folders disappeared. I also have dual boot Ubuntu. I can see the files and folders on ...
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Can I, and how do I, remove older versions of the kernel in Ubuntu?
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a computer with 4 GB available space (I can't delete stuff from the Windows partition yet). After two automatic Update Manager updates, my disk space is almost all gone. ...
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Saving space in a windows server 2008 workstation
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Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?
My server 2008 installation drive is eating space like anything. Specially the winsxs folder.
Trying ...
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Windows obstinately shrinking the pagefile
I admit I have rather small free space available on my C:\ drive (only 3-4 GiBs usually, with a 4 GiB pagefile being around), but what really annoys me is this:
Windows sometimes does an operation(1) ...
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Hard drive full, but files / folders don't add up to used drive space [duplicate]
My harddrive is full, but according to the size of all my folders, I should have more than half of my drive left over.
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Free disk space in Windows 7
One of the OS I frequently use is Windows 7. Unfortunately I recently ran out of partition space (partition D:, which has total size 668GB). I uninstalled some big, unused applications. However I ...
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How is it possible for empty files and folders to take zero bytes in Windows?
I've also asked a sibling question for Linux.
In Windows (I just tested):
The size of an empty folder is given as 0 bytes
The size of an empty file is given as 0 bytes
However, files and folders ...
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How is it possible for empty files to take zero bytes in Linux?
I've also asked a sibling question for Windows.
In Linux (I just tested):
The size of an empty folder is given as 4 KB (regardless of its name)
The size of an empty file is given as 0 bytes
However,...
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C drive getting full in windows 10 for no reason
I had 37 GB free on my main OS drive (C:) in my 512 GB SSD hard-drive. I installed a 2nd 1 TB drive anticipating needing more disk space soon. Just in few days c:\ drive got full for no apparent ...
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Mac OS Sierra and High Sierra occupies 95GB on my MacBook Pro 2017 128GB Edition. How to Clean?
I am an iOS developer. I am using a 2017 MacBook Pro with 128GB disk space to do my job (company laptop 😭 ). But recently, I found I don't have enough space to build my app, switch Git branches. It ...
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Modify a large file, then be able to rollback changes doing it (almost) inplace
I'm recovering data from a damaged 500GB disk drive. I'm copying data (ext4 partition) to a 500GB image file. The process is taking about 3 months of copying in total (yes, months). So I'm using dd ...
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155 GB in c drive used up. 50 GB used in minutes. Windows 7
My laptop has Windows 7 home premium. OS is installed on C drive. The C drive has some 155 GB but currently only 1.17 GB is free.
I deleted contents of my download folder and moved the contents from ...
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Symantec anti-virus is filling up my harddrive
I've been tracking down where all my disk space is being used and I found out that this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
Application Data\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition\7.5
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Spanning volume disk usage [duplicate]
I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood.
Will the first disk ...
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Folder Size 18.7gb but Size on disk 1.33TB - why/how could this have happened? Synology DS212 NAS RAID
To start - I am way out of my comfort zone trying to fix this problem but I am not sure what else to do!
We have (2) 3TB hard drives in a Synology DS212 NAS RAID and are constantly running into ...
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What are those huge one-letter files in Windows folder?
I used WinDirStat to display my hd content to find what take so much space. I found that there are five files of 15.9 GB in C:\Windows folder.
Does someone know what are those files? Can I delete ...
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Brand new external hard drive has 133MB used space?
I just purchased a brand new WD Elements 1.5TB Hard drive.
I have deleted all the files that were on it, even the hidden ones, and done a "Quick Format" through windows explorer.
Yet, when I look at ...
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How to detect who is consuming permanently space on Hard Disk
My System Disk "C:\", where is installed Win7x64 OS has 80 GB. I hah last time free space 8 GB, after uninstalling some apps and cleanup Disk, BUT every day disk free space is varying from 8 to 1 GB, ...
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Does Visual Studio 2013 Express require space on the system drive? [duplicate]
Does Visual Studio 2013 Express require space on the system drive? I have only ~5GB free on C:/. I ask because I remember that VS2012 takes lots of space on system drive even if you choose to install ...
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Used space does not match sum of all files
I run Windows 10 in VirtualBox and get the following values regarding hard disk usage.
Used space: 12.2 GB.
Sum of all files: If I open Windows Explorer, select all files and choose properties, I ...
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System Restore takes up more space as time goes by
Does anyone know the reason for System Restore taking up more drive space after only a few days? I'm not making any new restore points but it still seems to increase in size.
For example, I make a ...
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Is it surprising that WinDirStat takes a long time to analyze 8TB drive?
I just installed WinDirStat to figure out why a NAS seems to be filling up faster than expected. The NAS is mounted as a drive on my Windows 7 machine, and 7TB of its 8TB are full so I want to find ...
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Windows Disk Cleanup reports I could save 357GB on a 256GB drive?
Can someone explain what is happening here? It's got to be a software bug in Disk Cleanup.
The drive is a 256GB SSD drive.
Windows is reporting %temp% is only 7.2GB.
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Disk usage is always at 100%
I have noticed that recently my computer has been slowing down. For example opening a folder would take around 20 seconds to load, moving a folder (from the same drive) would take a minute or so. When ...
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What causes Volume Shadow Copy to enable itself without user intervention?
I have been dealing with issues where the empty space on the C drive always goes to 0. I would run through the normal steps to empty space. But, the space would always be taken back down to 0. This is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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