Windows 7 C: Drive Space Error

Question

My Windows 7 C drive is uselessly eating up space. I've checked all the hidden folders, used the disk cleanup, deleted restore files from the cleanup 'more options' tab too. But still I'm facing the issue.

Out of 19.5 GB it shows only 1.53 of free disk space. Only 1.6 GB is used by the program files folder. But the 'Windows' folder is using 15 GB of space uselessly when the OS is only of 5 GB.

What should I do to see what is using my disk space? And how should I delete all these useless files?

I've scanned my computer with avg and no infections were detected. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Actually I'm trying to download Windows 10 but the low disk space in the C drive is causing error. As Windows 10 is reserved to my desktop I don't think it will be wise to reinstall windows 7 now. I may lose my reservation.

Is there any way that I can transfer free space from other drives to the C drive. My D drive is empty. I just formatted it. Can I move the free space from D to C. If yes, then how?

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Also, can you help me with another issue? Everytime I turn on my PC the Boot menu pops up where I've to enter the date and time everytime. There are these options F11, F2, etc. I think there problem is with the startup config.

I click the F2 setup tab then provide the time and date everyday and everytime. My Windows 7 aero theme doesn't load up and I've to manually set it and other options like captions button size and all. What is causing the error.

Answer 2

From your description of your level of techiness, I suggest you are going to need some hands-on technical assistance.

Whomever set up your computer should not have created those partitions.  You should have only one logical partition and that should use the entire drive.

If you are going to get technical assistance, you may be forced to re-install Windows.  If that happens, consider replacing the drive with one that is much bigger.  Replacement drives are not very expensive.

Answer 3

I don't know much about the tech stuff of OS's. If you mean the total storage then it's about 75 GB. And about partition, I have 4 drives C, D, E and F.

C: 19.5 GB

D: 19.5 GB

E: 19.5 GB

F: 15.9 GB

Is this what is called partition?

Answer 4

What is the physical capacity of your hard drive?

Is it partitioned, and what sizes are the partitions?

Answer 5

19.5 GB is nothing like sufficient for a practical installation of Windows 7.

Microsoft's spec requires 20GB (64bit) or 16GB (32bit) but these are a minimum for Windows itself and makes no allowance for additional programs or data files (because that is an unmeasurable value). Windows is not 5GB, a base install with no drivers, updates, service packs or programs finishes at 10GB but that does not include any temporary files used during the setup process itself.

Run the Disk Cleanup utility to find what files can be removed, a more aggressive scan is done if you use the Clean System files option.

Treesize free gives a graphical display of disk usage.