HDD has only 50MB left...

[bob4432]

i am doing work on a friend of mine's machine and it was not booting up. so before i do anything i always make a backup image of the hdd to a network drive. i used true image and noticed that the hdd had only 50MB open. i have personally never let a hdd get so full and before i do anthing, is this space problem going to cause a problem? they want to keep the data so i can't just put a new install on it, but i know his daughter d/ls all types of stuff so that is why it is so full.

what problems will this full hdd give me?

 

[montag451]

Get that stuff off - quick - ghost it, clone it, acronis it, image4win it.... whatever,

If some of those sectors decide to give up -- lost data.

If you are going to clone it to a bigger drive, and shove the drive into the same system, there shouldn't be that much of a problem

 

[Vegito]

prob a lot of cache file & spyware.. i seen some spyware take up 14 gb in a 30 gb hdd.. and it was running for 2 years.. 🙂

 

[thorin]

Clear his browser's disk cache and windows temp directory.

 

[SVT Cobra]

delete some stuff...hell even the windows disk cleaner utility would help, and run adaware or ms beta spyware catcher. if they oppse it, just do not tell them bebcuase they obviously do not know what is for their own good (with the duaghter d/ling tins of crap)

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: thorin
Clear his browser's disk cache and windows temp directory.

yeah, saved 1.7gb of space on a 15gb gdd that way.

 

[bob4432]

the problem is that the machine is not working and i am using the same drive, not a larger one...

 

[jonnylingo]

I once saw a computer not boot because the HD was so full. After deleting a few hundred meg, it came back up again. You may just need to free some space so you can get back into windows.

-jonny

 

[bob4432]

unforutnately i don't know what to delete, where is the ie cache?

 

[Cheesetogo]

for xp:

C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

 

[Shlong]

I usually delete c:\windows\system32\dllcache for extra space.

 

[l Xes l]

just get those p0rn out

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: bob4432
unforutnately i don't know what to delete, where is the ie cache?

Internet Options : General (tab) : Temporary Internet Files (section) : Delete Files (button)