Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!

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  1. Posts : 30,603
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       #31

    moggie said:
    I did try to do a 'restore' on 27 July as I was having problems with laptop freezing. It took absolutely ages! and eventually finished with the message 'cannot restore' or something like that.
    The 249 files I mentioned start as 00a1, 00a2 then 00B, c,d, etc and after 009 a b c d e f change to 0010 carry on in sequence to finishing at 0099 - every one is 200mb and finishes with BOOT NXT and recovery TXT.
    I am trying to do a screen print but no success so far - will keep trying!
    Thanks
    Moggie

    Re. the two partitions - when I go into This PC it shows only Drive C at 95GB and no other drives unless I put in a flash drive in usb port and that then shows as a drive.
    If picture is a problem, try with text.

    Open command prompt or powershell and type
    dir C:\

    if files in question don't show up, type

    dir C:\ /ah

    mark some files with cursor and press Control+ V here in answer.
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  2. Posts : 90
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       #32

    Hello again
    I have managed to use snipping tool! but the three pages which you need to look at are in my docs under 'pictures' In simple terms please how do I get them to appear in this thread?
    Moggie
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  3. Posts : 90
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    Thread Starter
       #33

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    Is this them?
    Moggie
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  4. Posts : 30,603
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       #34

    Do you see those files in File explorer (if select show hidden files). Select them (~00 files) and try to delete them.
    don't delete other files

    Could be from various reasons - i.e. compressing some very large files.. or because of malware..

    open command prompt and type
    cd C:\
    del ~00??
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  5. Posts : 90
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    Thread Starter
       #35

    Thanks but do not understand. Went into search - file explorer and only showed last 14 files but at top was just one called 00d and this was for that July date when I went into properties and was 200mb. Could not see any more.
    Don't understand command prompt.Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!-command-prompt.png
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  6. Posts : 30,603
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       #36

    moggie said:
    Thanks but do not understand. Went into search - file explorer and only showed last 14 files but at top was just one called 00d and this was for that July date when I went into properties and was 200mb. Could not see any more.
    Don't understand command prompt.Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!-command-prompt.png
    Other files are probably hidden. That's not unusual.

    Command prompt is really simple. You type one command after another. You could run script, but I think some commends (just to clear some disk space) would be fine.

    In that black window type (or even better copy) commands from the post above. Line by line:
    first: cd C:\
    then: del ~00??

    if files won't be deleted, we'll change some attributes of that files.
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  7. Posts : 90
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    Thread Starter
       #37

    Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!-command.1.png
    sorry - still do not understand
    Thanks
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  8. Posts : 30,603
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       #38

    moggie said:
    Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!-command.1.png
    sorry - still do not understand
    Thanks
    first command was fine :)

    second should be without then:. Just

    del ~00??
    del means delete ...
    ~00?? means all files with ~00 and any two other characters
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  9. Posts : 1,345
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
       #39

    moggie said:
    Hello again
    I have managed to use snipping tool! but the three pages which you need to look at are in my docs under 'pictures' In simple terms please how do I get them to appear in this thread?
    Moggie

    moggie, as I am an elderly person I know what you mean.

    See if this works for you. I probably I can’t explain it in exact detail but I hope you can get through this.
    Make sure you have your cursor positioned where you want to have your picture placed in your post

    Left click on the insert image icon as shown in post #14
    An insert image dialog box will show up
    Left click on browse.
    Find the image you wish to post that is in your pictures folder.
    Left click the picture: you will see the title of your picture appear in the file name section
    Left click on Open
    Left click on upload files that’s in the Insert image section you saw above
    The image will be positioned in your post

    Another thing you can do is type the partitions as presented in Disk Management in case placing your image in your post doesn’t work out.

    Here is a disk management on a computer I just picked up
    Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!-moggie.png

    Here are the typed information for each one of those partitions
    Disk 0 partition 1 Healthy (Recovery Partition) 400 MB 400 MB 100%
    Disk 0 partition 2 Healthy (EFI System Partition) 300 MB 300 MB 100%
    Disk 0 partition 5 Healthy (Recovery Partition) 450 MB 450 MB 100%
    Disk 0 partition 6 Healthy (Recovery Partition) 15.74 GB 15.74 GB 100%
    Gateway C Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 448.77 GB 394.71 GB 88%

    You can copy and paste that typed information into your post and edit appropriate sections
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  10. Posts : 90
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #40

    sorry Andreten
    Command prompt will not work - I think I will have to forget it
    Moggie
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