[raebelk]

on the C Drive there is 8.69 GB free of 24.1 GB

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OK, things are a bit clearer to me now.

I suspect that your C: drive is the OS drive. The D: drive is an unknown, while the E: drive is for your data.

So, if you look at the C: drive, it should have the standard Windows installation on it. The E: drive should be empty (or nearly so). I suspect that the D: drive is a recovery partition - but you'll have to investigate that to see.

Still, the advice remains the same - use the Data partition to save your files, and to install programs to. Otherwise you'll eventually end up with an overfull C: drive and will have to uninstall stuff in order to make room on it.

FYI - it's recommended that you have at least 15% free space on each partition (unless it's a recovery partition). The reason for this is so that Windows can perform background operations without slowing the system down. Recovery partitions don't need this as there's nothing significant that Windows does to them - so there's no need for the free space restriction to be so large.

[usasma]

OK, things are a bit clearer to me now.

I suspect that your C: drive is the OS drive. The D: drive is an unknown, while the E: drive is for your data.

So, if you look at the C: drive, it should have the standard Windows installation on it. The E: drive should be empty (or nearly so). I suspect that the D: drive is a recovery partition - but you'll have to investigate that to see.

Still, the advice remains the same - use the Data partition to save your files, and to install programs to. Otherwise you'll eventually end up with an overfull C: drive and will have to uninstall stuff in order to make room on it.

FYI - it's recommended that you have at least 15% free space on each partition (unless it's a recovery partition). The reason for this is so that Windows can perform background operations without slowing the system down. Recovery partitions don't need this as there's nothing significant that Windows does to them - so there's no need for the free space restriction to be so large.

[raebelk]

Thank you for the help and advice. I never realized that my system was set up that way. I always had an overfilled C drive. I didn't understand why I was always out of room. Thanks again for everything!