Freeing up space on windows server 2003

At this point just force their hand and show them than an upgrade is required. You simply cannot continue to operate with a 15Gb C: drive. Just move it there, this should free up enough space for you.

Merryworks is an IT service provider. Repartition and if you can, uninstall some of the apps off the C drive and install to your data drive. Also, what OS are you running, is it virtual or physical server, and what sort of disk setup are you using e. Welcome to my world EvilGenius. I have 3 servers I'm constantly dealing with the same issue on - hopefully we'll be moving ahead with some plans and this will go away. One thing to look for is log files, get rid of old log files because they pile up.

If find some and you need to keep them, move them to another drive. I cannot add anymore drives, as I did this this past summer to give our Graphics department more space. All our drive slots are full now and we cannot add anymore drives. I have mentioned moving the GP to another drive and am told this is not an option because this is an exteremly busy time of year for our accounting department because of them closing out and they don't want to take that chance.

RobWJPR - this is a physical server that is running small business server I believe the system is setup RAID 0. I know it is not mirrored. This is just an idea, but you can also try using something like ccleaner to remove stuff that is either hard to find or tedious. That program is great in a pinch.

If they are unwilling to upgrade the server you may be able to convince them to allow you to upgrade the HD to a larger one. It is a band-aid fix but better than nothing. There is some great freeware out there that I have used to clone desktop and server HDs. Worse case scenario you are no further behind, best case you have new hardware to make your life easier.

Depending on total size, you can take an image, say with Symantec Ghost, to a USB drive, then reimage it back and mod the partition sizes. I have done this in the past and it works very well, especially if you can not add more drives and you would like to claim space from D to C. Also, something mentioned above about repartitioning could help if you have space to claim from D. Something like PartitionMagic or something similar.

But, by all means, temp files, windows update uninstall files, moving the swap file etc It's all plain text I speak from experience. Keep deleting the unused programs from the computer, empty recycle bin once a week, and check your system for virus time-by-time. If the problem persists, follow the below steps.

Disk cleanup tool is the best way to reclaim disk space on Server Here is how you can use the Disk Cleanup utility. It cannot harm the system in any way. Cleaning the Windows Error Reports Folder can also free up a considerate amount of disk space. You can find these folders at the following location. Deleting temporary also cannot harm your computer in any way.

Here is how you can delete the temporary files. After deleting these folders, you will not able to remove to repair these updates. Also be sure that none of the installed updates has to be uninstalled, after deleting them this is not longer possible or you store them into a different locatio and copy back if needed. Did you thought about moving the pagefile to another disk and only leave small one for the minidump?

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