D Drive filling up..not sure how/why?

[wine~o]

Above says it all really, not a great deal of space left on the D Drive...I can't understand why, machine is only about a year old..

I know I did one full back up to the D Drive..though I'm not sure how to find it...(Numpty here..)

Anyway, I'm wanting to do a full backup to dvd...But as I'm currently using a total of 188Gb over drive C and D..I'd need 41 dvds!!

That can't be right surely???

[wine~o]

So, in an attempt to try to resolve this, I've had a look in back up and restore and found this..

back up and restore....JPG (50.22 KiB) Viewed 2529 times

Should I just delete the previous back-ups and the "system image"....??

[Argyll]

Yes there's no need to keep any more back ups other than your most recent one. Personally I keep about my last 2 or 3 last back ups on a portable drive.

[dave.m]

Personally, I would delete the lot on the D Drive and make your system and data backups on an external HD.

Then I would repartition most of the D drive back to C to give you another 140GB of space and about 30GB of space in D, should you need it for anything in the future.

dave

[wine~o]

Thanks both...

I have deleted the previous back-ups and removed the shadow copy....and started a new back-up..

Dave. M I think all that "Partitioning" stuff is beyond me...

[dave.m]

I think all that "Partitioning" stuff is beyond me...

Do you have Windows 7?

Windows 7 (and even Vista) will do it for you with a few clicks:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... ows-vista/

dave

[wine~o]

Windows 7..I'll wait for the backup to finish before doing anything though...

[wine~o]

Right ..D Drive looking better..this is after a full backup, having deleted previous back-ups...

[kellys_eye]

I tend to keep all my data (docs, emails, pics etc) on a USB memory schtick (16Gb). Much easier to keep a track of, no HD space and pretty secure.

When you get down to it, the actual DATA you have is relatively small - your HDD fills with 'cr@p' far too easily.

[wine~o]

I tend to keep all my data (docs, emails, pics etc) on a USB memory schtick (16Gb). Much easier to keep a track of, no HD space and pretty secure.

When you get down to it, the actual DATA you have is relatively small - your HDD fills with 'cr@p' far too easily.

Good point KE...I'm full of Cr@p....

I would buy an external drive..if I could find one at a reasonable price...

However Due to the floods in Thailand HD's are fairly scarce atmo...or so i'm told...

[RichieP]

Drives aren't that scarce, the distributors are profiteering out of it and have doubled their prices.

If your D is on the same drive as your C then it's not really a proper backup. Yor drive fails and you could lose the lot.

[BillyGoat]

Mr WO,

Saw these, thought they might be alright for your needs...

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/western ... et-1125859

Work quick, they will be gone soon!

[wine~o]

I'll check that out..at the weekend.

[RichieP]

Just to add another point for ke and wino.

Putting all your stuff in one place, whether it's a USB stick or removable hard drive, is stil all eggs in one basket. It fails you can lose the lot.

Anything important you need at least 2 copies of it. Use USB devices as a backup, not a data store.

[tombarry]

Similar thing using win7 I thought maybe a good idea to backup as you do
But my backup drive 120gigs was running out of space? So removed stuff -still the same a week or so later
wanting more and more jeez
So removed all apart from backup -just as well as the h/drive packed up soon after
Windows 7 will warn you which is nice
I installed a 2 Tera Bite drive but can’t be bothered with a standard windows backup as they have never worked for me when I really needed it,
system restore- yes quite handy so now I'm trying out a program called Restore IT