HardDisk almost full suddenly on a Desktop 3000 S200 Vista

Would someone be kind enough to give me a hand? My Desktop is Lenovo 3000 S200 (9684-A24)
running on a Win Vista.
The system was purchased 5 months ago. I haven't kept many files or install much software. But the hard disk, originally having a 320GB in memory, is almost full now. It shows that there's 293GB being utilized on the SW_Preload(C : ).
It seems that the system is still running OK even though the speed is no quite satisfactory. I'm afraid I'll facing problem in the near future.
Please give me some advice if anyone has got the experience & fix it before. Thanks a lot in advance!!

hello the resuce and recovery must have made base backups in ur system also try disabling volume shadow copy only if you dont require it
i would sujjest a nift utility like tune up utilities 2008 believe me it works great and saved 4 gb on my ultimate
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Harddisk almost full

HI everyone
My harddisk has a storage of 27 GB, but it has been taken up by 20GB. How can i free up more space?
BTW, I have already minimise the songs, movies, pictures storage.
Hoping to delete some program that takes up the storage.
I am a new MAC user., hence not familiar with the function of apple.
Please help Thanks.
Paul

Hi Paul,
Do you use Garage Band? If not, deleting it and its related filed will free up almost 2GB. Any other application you never use can also be safely trashed.
Monolingual (free) will delete language files (about .5GB) that you don't use. You can also go to /Library/Printers (the first / indicates the hard drive) and delete any printer drivers you don't use. If you don't use HP or Epson (and don't plan to) just drag the folders to the trash and empty it. If you find you need one of them in the future, they can be reinstalled from the install disc.
John

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When you sync using iTunes on your computer, do you see a lot of "Other" at the bottom of the iTunes Summary Page for your iPhone? If you do, try a "Restore iPhone ...". That should help.
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First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
When it comes to clearing space on a drive, you have to decide how much to clear.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data.
Although you may be told by other contributors to this site that you should keep some fixed percentage (such as 10% or 15%) of the space on the boot drive available, that advice has no basis in fact as far as I can tell. The amount of available space you need depends on your usage pattern. I don't know how much you should have, and I don't make recommendations based on what I don't know. It should certainly be more than 9 GB.
If your data collection is growing quickly, then, depending on the size of the startup volume, you may need more than 10% available space in order to avoid the risk of filling it up, which can lead to a boot failure. If your data is relatively static, you may need less than 10%. I've seen no evidence that there's a loss of performance when available space falls below any threshold higher than the one Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the available space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
About local snapshots
Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then drag or copy — do not type — into the Terminal window:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Press return. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
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If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
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Or just the one?
If you have 2 icons, then you still have 2 partitions...
If you only have the one HD icon, then your HD is only 60 GB in size and you are running out of room as you only have 8.6 GB left which is getting minimal...
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I have an external 500 GB Hard Drive attached to my Mac MIni... This gives me a lot of extra room to grow and I also have it partitioned so I can use Time Machine to backup my internal HD...
If you don't already have some kind of backup, an external drive is one good way to have a backup.

Startup Disk Almost Full, what can i do??

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It's almost certainly your stuff (music, video, etc) that's filling up the disk.
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Infrequently I get these erroneous warnings "Your startup disk is almost full" when I know this is very false with the 250G hard drive only a third full. It happens on a PowerMac G5 dual 2.7GHz 2.25G 250G and a PowerBook G4 1.7GHz 1G 80G, both running OS 10.4.11. But in my long searches on the web including Apple Support and Forums I see it also happens to many running OS 10.5.
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Hi Packwood,
There must be a solution to your problem.
Are you using FileVault perchance?
Tough to recommend anything when I'm certain you've tried many things so far, and are frustrated without a cure.
Have you tried making a new User to test?
At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
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Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
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Liat:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Assuming you have sufficient free space on your HD consider this: did this begin after upgrading to Leopard? If so then it's a problem with the differences between Tiger and Leopard and privileges. I had to do the following go fix my library:
1 - open Terminal and type “sudo chmod -R -N “. Note the space after the N.
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3 - enter your admin password when prompted and hit the Return key again.
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Happy New Year
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