Help: Almost new G50vt C drive full?

Hi all,

I'm sure someone allready have posted this problem. I have done a lot of searching, but no hits. Can anyone guide me in the right direction?

I recently bought a G50vt-a2 with 2 x 320GB hard drives.
From Asus the machine comes with Vista installed and the disks partitioned in 4 drives.

The c drive is dedicated to Vista, and I only installed a very few programs (I rather not remove them, as I have done a lot of 'work' with/in these programs).

I now get warnings all the time that my hard drive is full, and that the computer don't have space to download and install updates! Everytime I start the computer I get "Disk cleanup", but it dont seem to remove/clean up enough. Very frusterating! I am very happy with the computer, but this silly thing really is annoying.

I'm sure someone must have adressed this allready, but please help me!

 

If its only the C drive then system restore is creating shadow copies.
Try this. In 'Disk cleanup' go to 'more options' and hit 'clean up' for 'system restore and shadow copies'. Hit delete wen asked and click ok. Then check ur drive again. Hope that helps.

 

Thanks deathmak,
I just tried that now, but still have this warning going...

Don't understand this. Seems I have to uninstall my software and put them in another partition. A shame since I have configured them just the way I wanted. If you guys don't have any other good suggestions?

 

how big is your C drive partition?

 

and how much space is remaining rite now?

 

Also try to identify where the space is going. For instance, at least in Windows XP, ACDSee databases can easily grow to a few GBs. Maybe some software is going wild with its data files.

Also see my Vista optimization guide for a way to limit the space taken by system restore.

Cleanup your temporary internet files.

I am moving this to the main ASUS forum, this is the wrong forum to post it in.

 

You can delete the other partitions and increase the size of the C: drive partition.

 

Another option is to go RAID0 with your hard disks giving you essentially one 640GB "C:" drive.

But you still should discover what is eating up your drive space: a few years ago a friend's machine ran out of space and we discovered it had been "zombified" and was being used as part of a bot net to send spam: he had over 156,000 e-mails in his "sent" folder he had never sent!