How to solve "c drive is out of space" or hard drive full issue?

The symptom for "c drive is out of space"

Windows pops up the low disk space warning to alert computer users when their c drive is out of space.

Windows XP displays the low disk space warning as "You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (C:). To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here."

If Windows 7 c drive is out of space, it will be shown in red as below:

If your computer reports that the c drive is out of space, or your primary drive is full or out of space, you're likely encountering one or more of the situations listed below:

1. Hard disk drive is not big enough to accommodate all your needs, such as software update/upgrade, install programs.

2. Windows operating system is running slowly.

Three ways to solve "c drive is out of space" issue

To resolve "c drive is out of space" issue, follow each of the below steps.

1. Clean up the hard disk drive

You can consider removing programs that you don't use and moving large media files (videos, music, graphics) to other partition. But you will spend a lot of time to do this.

2. Need larger hard disk

If you find yourself frequently c drive is out of space or the above recommendation did not help you resolve your issue, it may be necessary to upgrade or add another hard disk to your computer.

a. Add another hard disk

If you have a decent sized hard drive (larger than 100GB for more recent computers), but are running out of space, adding a new hard disk will give you additional storage without having to erase the existing hard drive. This could be either an internal or external hard disk.

b. Replace current hard drive

If your hard disk is less than 100GB, you may want to consider replacing the current hard disk with a new hard disk. Unfortunately, if you do decide to do this, you will need to reinstall the operating system and all the programs again.

c. Upgrade current hard drive to a larger hard drive

If your hard disk is less than 100GB, you may want to consider upgrading the current hard disk to a larger hard disk, "Dick Copy" feature of EASEUS Partition Master has ability to do it without operating system and applications reinstallation. Detailed steps: How to upgrade to a larger disk by copying disk?

3. Extend c drive

Maybe use a partition manager software to increase c drive size is the easy and efficient way to solve "c drive is out of space " issue. You can extend c drive as you wish and don't need to worry about data loss.

EASEUS Partition Master, as magic partition software, is a comprehensive hard disk partition management software to let you enjoy with all the powerful functions: Resize and Move partitions, Copy Partition, Copy Disk, Create, Delete and Format partitions, merge partitions and split partition and much more on MBR disk and GPT disk.

To extend c drive on Windows operating system, you may follow the coming steps:

Note: To extend c drive, there must be some unallocated space behind c drive. If not, you can decrease other partition and let unallocated space clinging to c drive.

First, launch EASEUS Partition Master, current size of the partition is displayed on the top of the dialog box. The map also depicts the used and unused space within the partition and the free space surrounding the partition (if any exists). The minimum and maximum sizes that you can resize a partition appear below the map.

Second, Click D: drive, position the mouse pointer on the right partition handle, the mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow and drag the handle to the partition size you want. And then move the D: drive to make the unallocated space 10 gig next to C: drive.

Third, Click C: drive, position the mouse pointer on the right partition handle and resize it with the 10 gig unallocated space. Click Apply. After reboot, you will successfully increase c drive partition without data loss. If the file system of c drive is NTFS, EASEUS Partition Master can extend c drive without rebooting computer.

Follow the above step by step tutorial, you will resolve "c drive is out of space" issue.

Besides Partition Manager, EASEUS Partition Master provides Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk and Partition Copy Wizard features. It is a complete solution to solve your disk and partition problem.

Tips: If you want to wipe the data on a partition completely to protect your privacy, please refer to How to delete and wipe partition?

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