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‎05-15-2022 05:46 PM

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My hard drive is showing as full when there's hardly anything on the computer; never had this situation before. 

 

Welcome any/all suggestions!!!

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‎05-17-2022 04:40 AM - edited ‎05-17-2022 04:41 AM

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As @Prométhée has pointed out that PC has a 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD and a 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive.

The SSD is setup to be the system drive C and the 1TB hard drive as the data drive.  Without the user taking control, everything is being stored on the SSD by default.  Some things can be moved to the data drive quite easily with drop and drag or right click highlighting and then moving to the data drive using an organization to mimic the folder locations of the C drive.  But it will continue to happen if the user does not tell Windows where to store the data.

 

Any time Windows or other software wants to save data, it needs to be told to not save to C but to the new designation on the data drive.  Seems like a troublesome task at first, but once all of the data save folders are data drive and the system knows where to save it, it will be less troublesome.

 

There are alternatives to this, the easiest is to make the C drive larger by replacing it with a like drive but larger, say 500GB or 1TB.  Cloning the old SSD drive to the new SSD drive could be done and not force Windows to change its ways and that is the easiest way.

 

The next is to just start over with reinstalling Windows and any other software to the old SSD.  Making sure that when anything asks to save data, that it s pointed to the data drive instead of C. 

Lastly is a combination of the two - having a new larger SSD with the system setup properly and the 1TB data drive.


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‎05-16-2022 06:04 AM

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Please post the model number of the PC.  If this happens to be a Stream, that is common and not much you can do.


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‎05-16-2022 08:11 AM

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It’s a HP Slim desktop 501-pf1048xt. Windows 10 OS. 

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‎05-16-2022 08:12 AM

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Not sure what you mean by “Stream”?

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‎05-16-2022 11:44 AM

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Hi @boarwild  @TheOldMan 

just a quick answer, waiting for @TheOldMan  to come back who will explain to you I think in detail what you should be able to do
your computer has a small m2 SSD and a large capacity HDD, you will have to try to move as many documents as possible to the HDD, or opt for replacing the M2

S01-pF1048xt Product Specifications

Internal Storage
256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
Hard drive (2nd)
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA

 

 

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‎05-16-2022 11:50 AM

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Not sure how to do that. Could you elaborate on that? 


Thank you in advance!!!

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‎05-16-2022 11:57 AM

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I hope that @TheOldMan   can answer you quickly
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‎05-17-2022 04:40 AM - edited ‎05-17-2022 04:41 AM

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As @Prométhée has pointed out that PC has a 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD and a 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive.

The SSD is setup to be the system drive C and the 1TB hard drive as the data drive.  Without the user taking control, everything is being stored on the SSD by default.  Some things can be moved to the data drive quite easily with drop and drag or right click highlighting and then moving to the data drive using an organization to mimic the folder locations of the C drive.  But it will continue to happen if the user does not tell Windows where to store the data.

 

Any time Windows or other software wants to save data, it needs to be told to not save to C but to the new designation on the data drive.  Seems like a troublesome task at first, but once all of the data save folders are data drive and the system knows where to save it, it will be less troublesome.

 

There are alternatives to this, the easiest is to make the C drive larger by replacing it with a like drive but larger, say 500GB or 1TB.  Cloning the old SSD drive to the new SSD drive could be done and not force Windows to change its ways and that is the easiest way.

 

The next is to just start over with reinstalling Windows and any other software to the old SSD.  Making sure that when anything asks to save data, that it s pointed to the data drive instead of C. 

Lastly is a combination of the two - having a new larger SSD with the system setup properly and the 1TB data drive.


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‎05-17-2022 04:49 AM

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A Stream is a product line of HP computers, which your is not, since I now know the model number.


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‎05-17-2022 10:45 AM

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hi @TheOldMan  i was thinking about this, if it can help :

 

Re: So my PC came with a 1TB hard drive, how do I find where... - HP Support Community - 7834985

 

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