PCWorks: HD getting full what steps should I take

This is my shop computer and is self built ie with parts off
the shelf. 
It is AMD Athlon XP2200+  1.8GHz and 512 of ram.
Using XP pro Ver 2002 
with SP2.

My C drive is a 40 gig drive with only 1 gig free! Much of
the size is 
in the Programs on the drive. (about 6 gig)

Should I buy a larger drive? If so, any recommendations?

If so how do I transfer date from the C to any other drive?

Most of the Programs are still in use so deleting them is
not an option 
I want to do.

If I were to reinstall some of these programs on another
drive would 
that work ok or does that cause problems?

I have been using a smaller drive (6 gig) for data backup
and I could 
install something bigger but still not sure the best way to
relieve the 
fullness.

Thanks


Larry Browning
K & L Electronics
Anderson, SC
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The easiest way to solve the problem is to get a larger
drive.
All new drives come with cloning software that will transfer
the 
existing install and allow you to use the new drive as
master.
Alternatively, you could install the new drive as a slave
and just 
transfer your data to it, but you might just be putting off
the inevitable.
You could also get easy cleaner:
http://www
.majorgeeks.com/download414.html
Run the unnecessary files module and the registry cleaner.
This safe to 
use and will find a ton of unneeded stuff.
This PC World article will help also:
http://www.pcworld.
com/article/id,97442-page,1/article.html



LarryB wrote:
 > This is my shop computer and is self built ie with
parts off the 
shelf. It is AMD Athlon XP2200+  1.8GHz and 512 of ram.
Using XP pro 
Ver 2002 with SP2.
 >
 > My C drive is a 40 gig drive with only 1 gig free!
Much of the size 
is in the Programs on the drive. (about 6 gig)
 >
 > Should I buy a larger drive? If so, any
recommendations?
 >
 > If so how do I transfer date from the C to any other
drive?
 >
 > Most of the Programs are still in use so deleting them
is not an 
option I want to do.
 >
 > If I were to reinstall some of these programs on
another drive would 
that work ok or does that cause problems?
 >
 > I have been using a smaller drive (6 gig) for data
backup and I could 
install something bigger but still not sure the best way to
relieve the 
fullness.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 >
 > Larry Browning
 > K & L Electronics
 > Anderson, SC
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40 gig ??? that barely covers the main operating system.  I
just 
upgraded from a 160 gig drive to a 250 gig ($60 after
rebates and price 
reduction).  I have a second drive of 100 gig that I will
replace with 
the 160 that I removed.  The 100 gig remaining will go to
one of the 
external drives.  The best way to transfer to another drive
is to use 
True Image (v10) which has lots of options including
creating additional 
partions and then cloning your current C drive to the C
partition on the 
new drive.  Because XP PRo keeps all sorts of backups and
backups of 
backups, your OS drive will do nothing but continue to grow
with use.  
Hard drive space is very CHEAP now days and its not worth
the hassles to 
try to keep a small drive open.

Keith Thompson

LarryB wrote:
> This is my shop computer and is self built ie with
parts off the 
> shelf. It is AMD Athlon XP2200+  1.8GHz and 512 of ram.
Using XP pro 
> Ver 2002 with SP2.
>
> My C drive is a 40 gig drive with only 1 gig free! Much
of the size is 
> in the Programs on the drive. (about 6 gig)
>
> Should I buy a larger drive? If so, any
recommendations?
>
> If so how do I transfer date from the C to any other
drive?
>
> Most of the Programs are still in use so deleting them
is not an 
> option I want to do.
>
> If I were to reinstall some of these programs on
another drive would 
> that work ok or does that cause problems?
>
> I have been using a smaller drive (6 gig) for data
backup and I could 
> install something bigger but still not sure the best
way to relieve 
> the fullness.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Larry Browning
> K & L Electronics
> Anderson, SC

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If you only have two hard drives and, I assume, some sort of
optical drive
then you could just add a hard drive. 

 I would question though what's taking up 39 GB of space on
your main drive
if the programs only total 6 GB.  That doesn't sound right
unless you have
some data base program or something that has huge data
files. Many programs
especially graphics programs that store photo thumbnails,
etc can have large
data store but you can always move the data files to another
drive without
having to move the program itself.  Also if you haven't done
any routine
maintenance lately, temporary files can get very large.

I would get some program that shows where all your space is
going.  Get
something like Treesize
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml#treesi
ze and look at what's
taking up all that space.  It's free and works really well. 


Also pay attention to the sum of the occupied space and the
free space on
the drive.  It ought to add up to somewhere around 39 GB or
so.   I had a
situation once where a program was generating files
fragments that don't
show up anywhere but still took up space.  I lost almost 30
GB on a hard
drive before I noticed the discrepancy.  Error checking will
take care of
those.  You might want to run WinXp error checking anyway
just to make sure.

If it turns out that you want to replace your C drive, many
retail hard
drives come with software that will clone the old drive to
the new drive.
The oem versions of  hard drives don't come with that
software.

Before you do anything, figure out what is taking up all the
space on your C
dive.

Ben Moore

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Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:39 AM
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Subject: PCWorks: HD getting full what steps should I take

This is my shop computer and is self built ie with parts off
the shelf. 
It is AMD Athlon XP2200+  1.8GHz and 512 of ram.
Using XP pro Ver 2002 
with SP2.

My C drive is a 40 gig drive with only 1 gig free! Much of
the size is 
in the Programs on the drive. (about 6 gig)

Should I buy a larger drive? If so, any recommendations?

If so how do I transfer date from the C to any other drive?

Most of the Programs are still in use so deleting them is
not an option 
I want to do.

If I were to reinstall some of these programs on another
drive would 
that work ok or does that cause problems?

I have been using a smaller drive (6 gig) for data backup
and I could 
install something bigger but still not sure the best way to
relieve the 
fullness.

Thanks


Larry Browning
K & L Electronics
Anderson, SC
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Larry, with a 40 gb drive you should have more room to spare
with only 
6gb of programs unless you have a lot of video on the drive.
Set your IE 
cache to 81 mb or less, clean out your trash in your email
and compact 
the files, set the space reserved for your recycle bin to
3%. Use 
Easycleaner as per Hugh's instructions as well

For hard drives recommendations there is only a few
manufacturers now, 
primarily Seagate (who just bought out Maxtor) and Western
Digital. I 
use Seagate because of their 5 year warranty, a 250gb drive
runs for 
under $90.00 CAD right now with larger drives experiencing
falling 
prices too.

All drives come with drive cloning tools that are quite
straight forward.

HTH

Peter Kaulback

LarryB wrote:
> This is my shop computer and is self built ie with
parts off the shelf. 
> It is AMD Athlon XP2200+  1.8GHz and 512 of ram.
Using XP pro Ver 2002 
> with SP2.
> 
> My C drive is a 40 gig drive with only 1 gig free! Much
of the size is 
> in the Programs on the drive. (about 6 gig)
> 
> Should I buy a larger drive? If so, any
recommendations?
> 
> If so how do I transfer date from the C to any other
drive?
> 
> Most of the Programs are still in use so deleting them
is not an option 
> I want to do.
> 
> If I were to reinstall some of these programs on
another drive would 
> that work ok or does that cause problems?
> 
> I have been using a smaller drive (6 gig) for data
backup and I could 
> install something bigger but still not sure the best
way to relieve the 
> fullness.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Larry Browning
> K & L Electronics
> Anderson, SC
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