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[Guest]

Hi need help cleaning my C drive its full have tried disk cleaner still has not created more space can't afford to buy anthing at the moment please help

 

[jedimasterben]

Well, you're only option is to delete some files, then. If you don't want to, then you'll have to save up and buy a new drive. You can't use software to make a hard drive bigger.

 

[pont31671]

The defrag that comes with Windows does a fair job and is well tested by Microsoft and billions of monkeies with keyboards...

It does seem to have problems with leaving files scattered in the free space.

For example: When creating a 500GB file on a drive with plenty of free space and defraged until MS (and others) say there is nothing more to do, it will created 50+ fragments! Some of them will be relatively small.

On would think that with a fully derangemented drive that it would create one extent. Closer inspection shows lots of little files scattered all over the drive... and the Microsoft file allocation algorithm seems to get confused and scatters the large file all over the place.

 

[Hawkeye22]

You can use NTFS compression or start zipping files. Right-click a folder and select properties. now click the advanced button. You should see "Compress contents to save disk space". Now click OK. Just be sure not to do this on the windows folder or any system folders.

You can also use 7-zip to compress and archive some of your older documents and stuff.

http://www.7-zip.org/