C Drive seems full but it shouldn't be Closed

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Hello, 

I have few programs on my computer yet the C drive is full. I looked under computer management and I have 3 partitions. One, is the C drive, it says NTFS, E says FAT32, the other doesn't have a letter in front but says FAT. Last year I reinstalled my operating system and I suspect I did something incorrectly. For example, under C:Windows there's a system32 folder and a New\system32 folder. I've looked at a few options including merging partitions but I'm afraid to take another misstep. Any advice would be appreciated.

I have XP on a Dell Inspiron E1505.

tm0501 · Accepted Answer

I deleted the FAT32. Which turned 4.34 GB into unallocated space. My C drive still says 29.7GB is used, the capacity size is 31.1GB. Any other suggestions on how I can find out what is taking up the majority of my C drive? Or suggestions for increasing space on my C drive?

Anonymous User · Answer

//One, is the C drive, it says NTFS, E says FAT32, the other doesn't have a letter in front but says FAT.//


NTFS-your C drive

FAT32-probably your recovery partition.You can remove it if you have your recovery CD

FAT-diagnostic partition,only a small size is being utilized by this partition.You need not remove it.

Anonymous User · Answer

What is your harddrive size?


//3 partitions. One, is the C drive, it says NTFS, E says FAT32, the other doesn't have a letter in front but says FAT.//

40 GB? thats low.

I'm sorry but its time to upgrade your harddrive

tm0501 · Answer

My C drive is 32GB. That may be the problem. It just seems like one minute I had space and the next it was zapped.

Anonymous User · Answer

If it was sudden change then did you install any software?

Do you see any malware symptoms on your laptop?

What is the size of program files and windows folder?

tm0501 · Answer

My program file is size on the disk is 2.9; size is 3.6
My windows is size on the disk is 8.95; size is 10.5

Anonymous User · Answer

Open your C drive

On top

Go to Tools-Folder options

Click on View tab

Check mark '' show hidden files

Uncheck Hide protected operating system files''

Click ok


Now check size of system volume information folder and pagefile.sys

tm0501 · Answer

system volume information is 615MB
pagefile.sys is 1,560,576 KB

tm0501 · Answer

13.6GB

Anonymous User · Answer

Download

https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/FreeMyDisk.shtml

Launch it

Check mark Select all

And click empty selected

See if that reduces space.Other than usage from appdata and temp folders there is nothing suspicious I find.

Anonymous User · Answer

I'm sorry but I just now find something suspicious

//My windows is size on the disk is 8.95; size is 10.5//

This is a bit high.

Can you say me the size of system32?

i want you to run a chkdsk on your C drive

tm0501 · Answer

I have 2 system32 folders. One is windows\system32 (size 132 MB); the other is windows
ew\systems32 (size 1.35GB). I'm running the chkdsk right now.

shaan_e · Answer

guys, this seems like a problem of sync center in windows. go to sync center,,manage offline files,,, and then click on the disable offline files and probably might have to restart ur pc until it takes effect. try this...

C Drive seems full but it shouldn't be

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