Running out of space on "C" Drive

[Rene1024]

Hi,

I've taken over the maintenance of a windows 2000 server which is also the Domain controller.

I only have 128mb of free space on the "C" drive.

When the server was first built it was only alocated 4GB for the "C" drive, over time this partition has gotten cluttered with all kinds of stuff.

I went ahead and removed all the un-necessary programs to make some room. I've checked the temp files and deleted them as well as anything that I that was just taking up sapece.

The only programs that are now running on that partition are the opeating system, Veritas back up exec, and the UPS software.

Are there any other files in Windows that may be just taking up space that I may have missed?

Please advise.

Thanks

 

[caddnima]

use a software that can re-partition your hard drive safely.... make backup first....

and redirect your temp directiry to another hard drive...

4gb is not enough...a clean install plus the necessary patches are eating 3.7 gb already....

 

[epohl]

Have you already moved the paging file to a different drive?

 

[MitchCumstein]

In addition to moving the paging file, I suspect Veritas backup creates many MBs of log/catalog files. See if they can be pruned or moved to another location

 

[Rene1024]

Thanks for the advice,

I'll look into the paging file as well as the Veritas catalog files.

 

[JLaur]

I don't know if this is possible for that server, but you could always extend your c-drive without any 3rd party tools. Go to Disk Management and convert your disk to Dynamic. Then, (sorry, not behind a windows 2000+ machine right now, can't look it up for you) expand the volume C: to unused space.
Always make a backup when making such operations.
Again, this might not be possible on your configuration, but perhaps it's helpfull.

Good luck!

 

[NickFerrar]

Even with dynamic disks you can't increase the system drive partition with native win2k tools.