Freeing up disc space?
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Hi all,
I've just turned on an old PC for the first time in years. I want to slap Ubuntu on it for testing. Currently it has a 30Gb drive partition 20/10. On the 20Gb partition it's got win2k server and there's about 10Gb free space. On the 10Gb partition it's got WinXP and there's less than 1Gb of free space, so it's that partition that I'd like to free up. I've made a start killing off loads of programs and junk from 'My Docs' but it's the 'Windows' folder that's the culprit really being over 5Gb in total. In it there are 300 odd hidden folders called stuff like '$NtServicePackUninstall$' or '$ntUnistllKB896688$'. If I was to kill off the ones that weren't touched recently when I ran Windows Update would anything major happen?
Cheers,
Rob
I've just turned on an old PC for the first time in years. I want to slap Ubuntu on it for testing. Currently it has a 30Gb drive partition 20/10. On the 20Gb partition it's got win2k server and there's about 10Gb free space. On the 10Gb partition it's got WinXP and there's less than 1Gb of free space, so it's that partition that I'd like to free up. I've made a start killing off loads of programs and junk from 'My Docs' but it's the 'Windows' folder that's the culprit really being over 5Gb in total. In it there are 300 odd hidden folders called stuff like '$NtServicePackUninstall$' or '$ntUnistllKB896688$'. If I was to kill off the ones that weren't touched recently when I ran Windows Update would anything major happen?
Cheers,
Rob
Have you used the disk cleanup tool in XP?
Right-click the drive -> properties -> Disk cleanup
It should remove any old temporary files that the OS doesn't need any more. A defrag might well clear a bit of space too.
If you've got alot of old files you rarely access any more you can compress them into a zip file. This works best on things like Word, Excel documents. Doesn't work so well on pictures, video or audio files.
Right-click the drive -> properties -> Disk cleanup
It should remove any old temporary files that the OS doesn't need any more. A defrag might well clear a bit of space too.
If you've got alot of old files you rarely access any more you can compress them into a zip file. This works best on things like Word, Excel documents. Doesn't work so well on pictures, video or audio files.
Also, Tree Size Free is handy as it will tell you how big each folder is: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
Should help you find the larger folders
Should help you find the larger folders
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