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    Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
    « on: September 19, 2009, 09:36:39 PM »
    On our Windows XP computer we only have a 14 GB hardrive, and its our main drive, the C drive. And we removed as many things off of it as we possibly could, and there is only 1.08 GB (7%) space available. And the defragmenter needs at least 15% free space to defrag. We can't remove anything else, so what do we do?

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    Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
    « Reply #1 on: September 19, 2009, 10:00:44 PM »
    You could try forcing a defrag by running defrag from the Command Line with the -f parameter.  Your backup should be up-to-date.  At the Command Line enter defrag/? to view the available parameters.

    Longer term a somewhat bigger capacity hard drive is definitely required.

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    Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
    « Reply #2 on: September 19, 2009, 10:16:32 PM »
    I assume that by "removed" you mean delete. get an external or a large flash drive and cut a group of files to it (just enough files to work). Defrag the hard drive and then put the files back. The best thing to do though would be to get a larger hard drive.
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    Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
    « Reply #3 on: September 20, 2009, 04:41:28 AM »
    I'd worry less about defragmenting and more about the space remaining on the hd. You might just want to create an image of the drive and replace it with a larger drive.

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    Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
    « Reply #4 on: September 20, 2009, 04:38:00 PM »
    This will work,  http://www.defraggler.com/

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    Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
    « Reply #5 on: September 20, 2009, 05:05:43 PM »
    Probably not...given the parameters.
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      Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
      « Reply #6 on: September 20, 2009, 10:38:50 PM »
      well, we could create an image of it, but my dad would not want to do that, the worst thing about this is that it wasn't originally 14GB it was like 30 or something (we have 2 disk drives C drive 14GB and D drive 100GB, and of course the C is the main drive, but there isn't enough space to put anything on it) but then we had to have it repaired, and it only had 14GB then. so im thinking the guy who fixed it made a partition. So how do I get rid of the partition?

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      Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
      « Reply #7 on: September 20, 2009, 10:43:59 PM »
      If you don't know what that partition is doing or has on it then getting rid of it might be VERY VERY bad. If it is your dads computer then ask him before doing anything.
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      Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
      « Reply #8 on: September 20, 2009, 11:11:26 PM »
      so im thinking the guy who fixed it made a partition. So how do I get rid of the partition?
      I can't think of any reason he would of created a 14gb partition on an already small 30gb drive as something involved in a repair.

      Does the drive show to have multiple partitions in Disk management?
      Go to 'Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management'. Does the graph show multiple partitions?

      Also, I agree with Boozu
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      Re: Main Drive (C Drive) 14 GB cant remove enough files to defrag
      « Reply #9 on: September 21, 2009, 08:09:29 AM »
      Buy a new larger HDD.
      Then use the tools from the new drive manuf. to "clone" the old drive to the new drive.
      Then backup the recovery partition from the original drive.
      Then you can format it and use it for extra storage...
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