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Move files from C drive to External drive
« on: March 02, 2013, 02:28:19 am »
Hello Shane,

My laptop has a capacity of 38 GB and it is nearly full. I have an external drive with about 200 GB free space. Is there anyway to create space on the C Drive by moving files to the external drive.  :thinking: My laptop is a  an  HP 500 operating on Windows 7.

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2013, 06:58:04 pm »
What version of Windows and what all do you have on there? I take it a lot of pictures and music?

And 40GB havent even been made in a while, I take it your drive is an older one?

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2013, 10:09:29 am »
Hello Shane,

Attached is System info about this laptop:

HP 510 Notebook
OS Windows 7 Ultimate
Its an old laptop and old drive!
Funnily enough I don't have that much music and pics on the drive. I really am surprised that it has filled up so quickly. I have 76 MB in the music folder and 344 Mb in the pictures folder. I suspect that installing of updates is the culprit... :undecided: but I am not sure...

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2013, 02:35:10 pm »
Check the size of your program files folder and the Windows folder. I bet that is where a lot of the size is.

Also go to your profile C:\Users\Your Username and see how big your profile is.

Also run the disk cleanup tool as well (Have it clean everything). A lot of times you can clear out GB's from Windows 7. Its error logs and crap take a lot of space!

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2013, 10:33:50 am »
Hello Shane,

I have been having internet problems so I am not sure whether the previous posts I sent got through to you.

Briefly:
Windows Folder     15.4 GB
Users  Folder         12.9 GB
Programme Folder  3.4 GB

I ran disc clean up but only got 684 MB.


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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2013, 10:39:50 am »
Windows folder is about normal on size for Windows 7 and program files as well.

The one that is on the large side is the users folder. That is where I would look to find out what is taking up to 12 GB. With normal profiles you might have an avg. of 1 to 2 GB.

Also if you have itunes installed that might explain it, when it does a backup of your device those can get very large.

You should think about getting a new drive for the laptop. It will be both bigger and faster. Given the age of the laptop it is an IDE hard drive (Not sata). I just checked newegg.com to give you a link to one and they don't have any ide drives for laptops listed! Man times are changing fast lol

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2013, 10:54:14 am »
Thanks Shane.

I will check the users file and see what is there.
I have also been considering changing the drive and will look around here for a "local" solution.

Once again many thanks. :wink:

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2013, 11:41:47 am »
Hello Shane,

It is me once again.

I looked through my users folder and checked the volume of each folder. Individually it doesn't add up. It is as if there are some "hidden files" somewhere...any suggestions?

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2013, 11:44:47 am »
Did you enable to see hidden files on your system?

Under your profile in Windows 7 you will have an AppData folder, which is hidden by default.

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2013, 12:02:44 pm »
How do I access it? :rolleyes:
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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2013, 12:17:22 pm »
It is the Appdata folder contains 9 GB.

Can one delete some files or is it a"no go"
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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2013, 12:33:40 pm »
Dont delete anything yet.

Go into the appdata folder and see if you can find where the largest files are. Then let me know what they are.

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2013, 12:36:50 pm »
Appdata - Roaming-nokia =4.49GB
Appdata-Roaming-uniblue =2.75GB
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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2013, 12:38:42 pm »
nokia? and uniblue?

Post a screen shot of those folders so I can see what is in them. They are most likely safe to delete since they are not a apart of Windows but I want to make sure. :wink:

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2013, 12:51:05 pm »
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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2013, 12:59:38 pm »
Go to add remove programs and remove any nokia software and any uniblue software. Once uninstalled you can delete those 2 folders :wink:

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Re: Move files from C drive to External drive
« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2013, 01:13:34 pm »
Ok :smiley:
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