Reducing amount of data on HDD

rosshamilton94 · Jun 23, 2013

Hello, I joined up to ask for some advice as I had seen other very helpful threads from this forum when searching for information on other matters.

My questions are:

I am trying to reduce the amount of data on my HDD in order to prepare for migrating the data to and SSD and I wondered if it was safe to disable and delete the files named pagefile.sys and hyberfil.sis as this would go a long way to reducing the amount of data I have to an acceptable amount?

If it is possible the would it be feasible to then reactive the two features and store them on my large HDD rather than my small SSD?

Thanks

JackNaylorPE · Jun 23, 2013

You don't want to delete these files..... you can choose however to disable those features, at least reduce their file size or move them to another drive

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/how-do-i-move-pagefilesys-temp-folders-etc-from/e9f84bf6-f996-446a-97c3-33b52a65e3d6
http://www.techmixer.com/pagefilesys-how-to-remove-pagefilesys-from-windows/

rosshamilton94 · Jun 23, 2013

JackNaylorPE :

That sounds ok, thanks. Probably should have verified this 1st - I have been told that when cloning data from HDD to SSD the source drive must contain a maximum of 20% less data than the capacity of the destination drive. Is this true? This is what is causing so many problems - I have around 76GB on my HDD and the SSD I intend to purchase is 64GB. Therefore if that fact is true, then I need to reduce to around 51GB, which is proving difficult as I am running out of things to uninstall.

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