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Hi. C drive's about 20 gigs and I couldn't manage to have disk space more than a gig. Turned system restore, hibernation off and cleared all the temp files using disk cleaner and other softwares. Very few softwares have been installed. There's a lot of space in other drives. So, what should I do? Just reinstall, or is there any other way to save disk space? I've turned Windows Update on and is it gonna affect my disk space??? Need help.
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Re: low disk space on system drive C:

20 gigs is too small for vista. A clean install of vista uses like 4 to 20gb alone. 40gb+ is the minimum reccomended.

Buy a bigger hard drive and reinstall.
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Re: low disk space on system drive C:

If you are going to buy a new hard drive get the biggest one you can affort because in a couple years it won't be big enough!
A few years ago the first hd I bought was 80 meg and cost about $500.00 USD. I thought it would last forever, but forever turned out to be about 6 months when I filled it up with MS-DOS 6.X os. I have bought several since then and MS-Windows seems to be getting bigger and bigger as hardware gets cheaper.
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If you are going to buy a new hard drive get the biggest one you can affort
The fact his machine has a 20gb leads me to believe its an ancient machine in which case he may have a drive size cap of some sort
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If the hardware is too old then Vista won't even install. Needs to run the Vista Upgrade Advisor before spending money on a new hd to see if he needs a whole new computer.
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hi THis is ganesh here....

if u r facing a low disk space problem then just do oe thing

if u want to install any software then install it on other drive means other than c drive or simply format ur PC an allocate C drive much space coz by default all syssstem files are install on C drive so better way u can make on other drive

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hi THis is ganesh here....

if u r facing a low disk space problem then just do oe thing

if u want to install any software then install it on other drive means other than c drive or simply format ur PC an allocate C drive much space coz by default all syssstem files are install on C drive so better way u can make on other drive

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Isnt 20 GB enough for c in vista....but as ganesh has replied any personel s/w could be installed in other drives alse...pls allocate 30 gig .
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No. Vista eats disk spacs.
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Re: low disk space on system drive C:
For me it was C:\Windows\winsxs folder which was agglomerating its size

as my Os was becoming older.Found a fix related to this here

http://sunil-bhaskar.blogspot.com/20...spacehard.html.ALso It was the System restore!Man it was looting me

of 37.5Gb!!!!!! :o Prime number:
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Re: low disk space on system drive C:
I will recommend you to cut and copy all unwanted files on other drive.
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