C: says its full but its not

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  1. aki09

    aki09 Regular member

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    hi my laptops C: says its full when i have deleted aboot atleased 20g plus off it.The D: is working fine C: D: are ntfs i was thinking off backing up drivers and stuff formatting it as fat32 as i usually have it at and install windows again. My friend installed windows and stuff on it and made it ntfs. IS the hdd broke or could it be a virus or something??
     
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    just because you delete it does not mean its gone did you remove it from the recycle bin? if so do a disk cleanup and a disk defrag and see if that helps.
     
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    yes i empted recyle bin and i just did disk clean up and defrag still says o free space.

     
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    do a propties on the c:drive to see what is used, free & total.
     
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    used 56 gig , free 0 bytes,total 56 gig
     
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    what is the size of the physical drive & what sizes are the partitions? are you using norton recycle bin or similar?
     
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    i just empted the other partition and deleted it added it to the C: its gave me about 55gig just windows recycle bin
     
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    Run a disk cleanup.
    Also, do not reformat the drive into FAT32. NTFS is what it should be.
     
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    yae thanks i looked into it a bit more lol it was just becouse my pen drives are fat 32
     
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    Most pen drives are FAT16, the bigger ones are FAT32.
     
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