My Windows 7 local disk (C:) is full? (0 bytes free)

Hi Chngjdy,

Thank you for posting in the Microsoft Community.

I’m sorry to know that you are facing issue with free space on the C:\ drive. In order to provide you with a quick resolution, please reply to these questions:

1.       How many hard drive partitions are there on the computer (number of local drives)?

2.       Do you receive any prompt or message saying disk is full?

3.       Do you have any security software installed on the computer?

4.       Have you made any changes on the computer prior to the issue?

However, I’m glad to provide you with these methods which will help you to fix the issue.

Method 1: I would suggest you to run disk cleanup to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space.

Delete files using Disk Cleanup

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Delete-files-using-Disk-Cleanup

**Method 2:**I would suggest you to clear the temp folders and check if it helps, here are the steps:

a.       Click Start, type %temp% in the search box and hit enter.

b.      Press Ctrl key + A, that will select all the contents and delete it.

Once you clear this, follow these steps:

a.       Click Start, click on Computer.

b.      Open C drive, go to Temp folder and delete all the contents and check if it helps.

**Method 3:**I would also suggest you to scan your computer with Microsoft Safety Scanner, which would help us to get rid of viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software.

**http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx**

Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again.

Important: While scanning the hard drive if any bad sectors are found, the scanner tries to repair that sector, any data available on that might be lost.

Hope it helps. For any further Windows related assistance, feel free to contact us and we will be happy to help.

1. Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button, clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, clicking System Tools, and then clicking Disk Cleanup.
2. In the Disk Cleanup Options dialog box, click Files from all users on this computer. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
3. If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
4. Click the More Options tab.
5. Under System Restore and Shadow Copies, click Clean up, and then, in the confirmation dialog box, click Delete.
6. To continue using Disk Cleanup for other drives on your computer, click the Disk Cleanup tab. To quit Disk Cleanup, click Cancel.

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In safe mode.

http://www.oyah.net/howtoarticles/how-delete-system-restore-and-shadow-copies-using-disk-cleanup-windows-7-and-windows-v

1.Click Start.

2.Click All Programs.

3.Click Accessories.

4.Click System Tools.

5.Click Disk Cləanup.

6.Click Cləanup System Files.

7.On the More Options tab, Under**** System Restore and Shadow Copies **,**Click Cləan up.

8.Click Delete.

9.Click OK.

10.Click Delete Files.

11.Your all done!

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Thank you very much. I also had this issue and ccleaner was the solution. My C drive had 84 GB of "System - Temporary Files". I was unable to view them (even showing protected files from the system). But, with ccleaner, I could finally delete them.

Hi Imran M,

To answer your questions,

1.       I have two local hard drives: Local Disk (C:) and Local Disk (D:) 

 My Local Disk (D:) Seems to store my backups and it has 45.6 GB out of 189 GB free still. It is my Local Disk (C:) that has 0 bytes out of 261 GB.

2.       I receive messages when I want to view an image on my computer, saying "Windows Photo Viewer can't display this picture because there might not be enough memory available on your computer. Close some programs that you aren't using or free some hard disk space (if it's almost full), and then try again" or if I try to download anything the download bar would say "disk full" and will not download.

3.      The only security software installed is AVG Free 2012 and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I clicked on AVG and it still works but it cannot update itself because of no memory. Also, it seems that it cannot delete the 6 threats caught because of possible need of memory to delete it or vault it. Also I clicked on my Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program and it cannot be located, so I am guessing that has to be re-installed....though I pretty much cannot install anything on my computer right now with no memory.

4.      I haven't made any changes to this computer.

Method 1 : I ran disk cleanup, didn't do much or anything. Went back to no memory all of a sudden.

Method 2: I deleted it but still 0 bytes.

Method 3: I cannot download the Microsoft scanner because I have no memory to download any programs or anything; the computer will not allow me. I do not know how to run it without downloading the program.

I hope you can still help me figure out what may be wrong....

Thank you for answering back to me! 

Please reply back as soon as possible!

Thank you for your time!

Hi Imran M,

To answer your questions,

1.       I have two local hard drives: Local Disk (C:) and Local Disk (D:) 

 My Local Disk (D:) Seems to store my backups and it has 45.6 GB out of 189 GB free still. It is my Local Disk (C:) that has 0 bytes out of 261 GB.

2.       I receive messages when I want to view an image on my computer, saying "Windows Photo Viewer can't display this picture because there might not be enough memory available on your computer. Close some programs that you aren't using or free some hard disk space (if it's almost full), and then try again" or if I try to download anything the download bar would say "disk full" and will not download.

3.      The only security software installed is AVG Free 2012 and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I clicked on AVG and it still works but it cannot update itself because of no memory. Also, it seems that it cannot delete the 6 threats caught because of possible need of memory to delete it or vault it. Also I clicked on my Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program and it cannot be located, so I am guessing that has to be re-installed....though I pretty much cannot install anything on my computer right now with no memory.

4.      I haven't made any changes to this computer.

Method 1 : I ran disk cleanup, didn't do much or anything. Went back to no memory all of a sudden.

Method 2: I deleted it but still 0 bytes.

Method 3: I cannot download the Microsoft scanner because I have no memory to download any programs or anything; the computer will not allow me. I do not know how to run it without downloading the program.

I hope you can still help me figure out what may be wrong....

Thank you for answering back to me! 

Please reply back as soon as possible!

Thank you for your time!

Hi everyone,

I am also facing the same issue with windows 8 :  0 bytes out of 19.5GB on C: drive.

First of all I don't understand why I am getting only 19.5GB of space on C: drive.

Please help me with the issue!

Thank you all!