Drive "full" problem

[David]

Thats really bad Gary really bad surely there must be someone who would intervene how do you lose a wheelchair for gods sake!!!

[Gary]

Thats really bad Gary really bad surely there must be someone who would intervene how do you lose a wheelchair for gods sake!!!

I have been on the phone this morning, they are looking for it  add to that my hard standing and path in the garden has to be broken up and relaid after only a month (their fault) and I need to have new drain pipe put in as they lifted the water-but so high on the new standing the gravity feed is now a fountain out of the gutter as it won't go into the water-but, I'm doing well this week 

[Sebby]

Simon, the first thing I'd do is run chkdsk. It's possible that the FAT (or NTFS equivalent) is incorrect.

[Steve]

I would say chkdsk /f then any errors will be corrected, you can also get issues with the MFT master file table being unable to re allocte released space,this needs something like PerfectDisk to solve this issue,its a worthwhile investment for any Windows machine anyway.

[Rik]

They could not find my house  oh and I was on the phone so they could not call me, even though there are no calls listed for that day on my end  that was two weeks ago and it was marked urgent

Must be the same guy that was delivering our meat last week.

[David]

A truly multisubjective thread 

[Rik]

Aren't they all.

[David]

 

[Steve]

There's always room for food for thought

[David]

But has that wheelchair arrived yet ?

[Rik]

There's always room for food for thought

[Steve]

Thanks

[David]

Simon will be so confused 

[Rik]

He's used to me by now, David.

[Simon]

So much for keeping tech threads on topic! 

Anyway, it turned out to be the simplest of things.  They had never bothered to empty their recycle bin, which had about 9Gb of files in it (on a 20Gb 'C' drive), so I emptied that, and ran CCleaner for good measure, and freed up nearly half of the drive space. 

[Simon]

Oh, sorry to hear about your wheels, Gary.  Did they roll up in the end? 

[David]

Rik ....consider your admonished 

Glad you found the solution Simon I will try that it may save getting the hammer to the machine I had given up

[Simon]

I wouldn't call it a cure all, David, but CCleaner does often work wonders, providing you use it carefully.

[David]

Its worth one very last try

[zappaDPJ]

Anyway, it turned out to be the simplest of things.  They had never bothered to empty their recycle bin, which had about 9Gb of files in it (on a 20Gb 'C' drive), so I emptied that, and ran CCleaner for good measure, and freed up nearly half of the drive space. 

That amused me no end 

[Rik]

Me too. Have you explained, Simon? 

[Simon]

I tried to, Rik. 

[Rik]

Been there, done that...

[Simon]

... and probably will again. 

[Rik]

Indeed.