C: Drive showing 0mb Free

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AliceRose

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Hi,

I have a few problems at the moment but think most will stem from this.

My C: drive is partitioned at 10gb (Disk Managament shows 10gb). Windows Explorer & the driver Properties windows however are only showing 1.00gb capacity & 0mb free.

This may be the cause for me not being able to run downloaded files from the internet & files from an external source (CD Drive).

I have tried the usual methods of defreg, disk clean up, resize shadow storge & running Windows Defender (Which is now giving error messages too) & none of these seem to have fixed the problem. There are a few other things I've tried too, but wondered if anyone has come across this before.

Thanks, Alice.
 

My Computer

System One

Hello Alice,

If your C: drive is only 10 GB big that is too small for Vista. You have to have partition at least 30GB big for Vista x86 to allow the system to work efficient.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway P7805u FX
    CPU
    Intel Core2Duo T9600 2.80GHz 1066MHz FSB
    Motherboard
    Intel PM45
    Memory
    8GB 1066MHz DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS 1GB DDR3
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 17" WUXGA TFT
    Screen Resolution
    1920x 1200
    Hard Drives
    WD 2x500GB
    Case
    notebook
    Other Info
    BT/BD
Hi Martee,

I have another 80gb unused so was thinking of setting a larger drive. Do you have any idea why the system only thinks this 1gb is 10gb though?

Thanks for the quick response, Alice.
 

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System One

No, have no idea. Can you post how your disc management looks like, for us?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway P7805u FX
    CPU
    Intel Core2Duo T9600 2.80GHz 1066MHz FSB
    Motherboard
    Intel PM45
    Memory
    8GB 1066MHz DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS 1GB DDR3
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 17" WUXGA TFT
    Screen Resolution
    1920x 1200
    Hard Drives
    WD 2x500GB
    Case
    notebook
    Other Info
    BT/BD
I think is a little bug or something. The C drive is just 10GB, so in my opinion the best what you can do is to merge the C and D drive. However, there is a little problem with your files on the D drive. The best way would be to copy them to the external drive before do anything, you know just in case if something goes wrong. I think you could copy your stuff from the D drive to the unused partition on the right.

I would use the third party software to merge the both partitions. Let me find free software you could use in this, ok.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway P7805u FX
    CPU
    Intel Core2Duo T9600 2.80GHz 1066MHz FSB
    Motherboard
    Intel PM45
    Memory
    8GB 1066MHz DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS 1GB DDR3
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 17" WUXGA TFT
    Screen Resolution
    1920x 1200
    Hard Drives
    WD 2x500GB
    Case
    notebook
    Other Info
    BT/BD
Thanks again for the response,

Sounds all good apart from the third party software idea. This will no doubt be a downloaded file & I therefore won't be able to run/install it.

I can give it a go with Disk Management & just move my files from D: to to Unused 80gb partition.

Alice.
 

My Computer

System One

I guess you are right. I found the Partition Logic software, it is a bootable hard disk partitioning tool. Just download and burn ISO file on the CD. Then boot the computer using this CD. When downloading files from the net you can set the downloding manager to put these files on the D: drive if you want.

Please, be sure if you are up to and comfortable to use partitioning tool. Be very careful what are you doing.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway P7805u FX
    CPU
    Intel Core2Duo T9600 2.80GHz 1066MHz FSB
    Motherboard
    Intel PM45
    Memory
    8GB 1066MHz DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS 1GB DDR3
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 17" WUXGA TFT
    Screen Resolution
    1920x 1200
    Hard Drives
    WD 2x500GB
    Case
    notebook
    Other Info
    BT/BD
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