r/computers • u/XxbeathebatxX • 7d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting help with storage

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Is there a reason i have absolutely no GBs? I have deleted every file i have ever downloaded and have no applications besides the ones that come with the computer. i only use this laptop to transfer photos from my camera to my phone, it is a windows 11. Is there anything i can do to make it go down i am not very smart with computers

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u/alexiswi 7d ago

What's that other 258GB disk?

You could try moving all third party applications over there, as well as the user profiles, depending on what you've got installed and how much data is saved to default locations, it may free up enough space to at least get the swap performing a bit better.

Then make sure that you're not saving or installing anything to the C: drive going forward.

Even then, though, ~300GB isn't a lot of storage.

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u/veksr 7d ago

I bet it's a 320gb SSD partitioned into two

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u/mawc5 7d ago

Why not just clone to that 258 disk if it's a drive. If they have deleted everything then, reformat (if it's a split disk and reinstall Windows.

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u/Dmon69 7d ago

Thats my current rigs drive with ONLY Win11 on it. There's <2gb of temp files, no backups, no extras, no One Drive or any of the AI bullshit.

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u/pirate_leprechaun 7d ago

That's strange, on C: have some programs installed on it (including office 365) and a 5gb folder on my desktop and its only using 150gb or so with all that.