Solid State Drive -- running out, low on space

I was running out of space on my almost brand new computer. SSD on C: and std drive on E:
Toshiba support suggested a reformat. What I did instead: http://www.opencircuits.com/Solid_State_Drive_Issues
Hope this may help others.

Why would you reformat the drive? Also, DO NOT move My Documents, that is a Windows generated folder and you might mess up the computer and have to reload everything if you do.
If you are running out of space there are a number of things to do;
1. Open Computer (or My Computer in XP) and right click the C drive and select Properties. There should be a button to cleanup the drive. Click in and then select all the check boxes on the next window that pops up and Ok. This will delete all the temp files off that drive. If you are on IE alot that can generate a bunch.
2. Move the OS swap file (paging file) off the C drive to the D drive. It normally is set as 1.5 times the amount of ram in your machine. It is a bit deep to do so I won't type in the entire procedure. Google it.
3. This is more of a pain but remove the programs on the computer (Office, Norton, Adobe, etc.) and reload then but when going though the install process enter in D:\Apps (for example, as you made need to create that folder first) as the destination instead of C:\Program Files.
This is one of the disadvantages of SSD's not, the big size ones are very expensive.
Jeff

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Intel®
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