How to solve "system disk/drive full" problem?

How to know your system disk/drive is full?

More and more applications and files are stuffed into your PC; you may encounter this famous Windows message one day: your system disk is full!

Under Windows XP, the system disk full message is like this:

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.

Under Windows 7, the system disk full message looks like this: the system disk will be displayed in red.

The system disk full problem will slow your computer; stop you from installing new applications. The worst is the computer may crash after running on full system disk for a long time.

Migrating for a new and bigger disk is a good idea, but you have to buy a new disk and reinstall the operating system on the new disk. Is there a way to solve the system disk full problem for free? The answer is YES!

How to solve system disk full problem by freeware: EaseUS Partition Master Free Edition.

EaseUS Partition Master Free Edition is a free and powerful partition manager to release some space from other disks to the full system disk under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 32/64 bit. Here is the detailed steps:

Step-by-step instruction to extend system partition (C: drive).

Tips: We strongly recommend you backup data with free backup software - EaseUS Todo Backup Free before resizing partitions.

1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master.

2. Select partition E:, right click it, select "Resize/Move partition" and drag the partition handle leftwards to resize E drive. Then there will be unallocated space behind E: drive.

3. Move E: drive rightwards to let the unallocated space be behind the system partition (C: drive) and click OK.

4. Select the system partition (C: drive), right click it and select "Resize/Move partition", drag the partition handle rightwards to extend system partition (C: drive).

5. Click Apply( if you do not want to finish it, you can click "Undo").

For more detailed information, please visit resizing and moving partitions.

Now, you have a bigger system disk with lots of free space. Your computer runs like a new one.

 

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