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Low Disk Space Windows 7

BostonHolly

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Oct 31, 2013
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Constant warnbings that my Drive D is nearly out of Memory. Unfortunately, i'ts partitioned, I cannot get into it Issue: 1. annoying 2. the only solution Windows presents is to empty trash can-it's always empty 3. I used to be able to eliminate older backups but now it won't allow it- I have an External Hard Drive 4. I'd even backup to CD's and have tried and could eliminate the Partition, but the system requires 50 CD's, forget it. Currently Drive D is 25% fragmented but won't allow me to defrag, only analyze. The only thing that will stop the warnings seems to be to disable it altogether but i don't know if tha't's a good idea. Running HP AIO, Win 7 Home Prem. 64
 
1. Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

2. Is the D a physical drive, or just a partition on another drive?

3. Install and run WinDirStat to see what is sucking up that space.
 


Partition, thot. I'd said that (too many words, sorry). I have a G Drive, Seagate, external, an H. drive thumb-drive, for certain programs . Can you tell I've had a few crashes in the distant past, lol ?
 


Pictures, please. Just so that we're all on the same page.
Disk Management and WinDirStat.