Best way to clean a hard drive..

[RuSZ]

Need to clean out my C: drive ready to split it for Ubuntu...

but the issue im having is that is gone from been a 60gb partition with 20gb free to only having 5gb free..

Ive download and started to run C-Cleaner which is deleting near enough every unneeded file..

however, whenever ive installed any program ive installed it onto me E: drive which is 500gb.. so cant understand how my C: drive has become so full of crap... i usually delete TMP Install files...

 

[colinf1]

what is currently on C:/, windows?

Are you going to be running a dual boot disk, or just migrating to ubuntu?

What I'd do, is move everything of importance to the 500gb drive, and install ubuntu on the entire c: drive. I used to run dual boot, but usually ended up not leaving enough space on the drive for installing codecs, drivers, updates etc.

If you want to do dual boot, you may find it better to do 2 fresh installs, dividing the disk space equally between the two.

 

[RuSZ]

what is currently on C:/, windows?

Are you going to be running a dual boot disk, or just migrating to ubuntu?

What I'd do, is move everything of importance to the 500gb drive, and install ubuntu on the entire c: drive. I used to run dual boot, but usually ended up not leaving enough space on the drive for installing codecs, drivers, updates etc.

If you want to do dual boot, you may find it better to do 2 fresh installs, dividing the disk space equally between the two.

Windows at the moment. was planning on Dual-Booting.. ive got it dual booted on my netbook, but thats a 120gb partition on a 250gb hard drive.. i wish i had my system on the 500gb hard drive..

Ive ran C-Cleaner.. its removed 20gb of unneeded files


EDIT...

Despite installing iTunes onto my E: drive...

It has decided to still story ALL my music on my C: drive... all 20gb of it...

So out off 55gb.. 20gb was music & 20gb was temp files... only 15gb is System :S

 

[fingers99]

I'd stop using Itunes. Anything made by Apple has to be extremely suss.

For the disk, boot from Ubuntu and use GParted on it. Or if you just point Ubuntu at the C it'll format and use that anywway.

 

[RuSZ]

I'd stop using Itunes. Anything made by Apple has to be extremely suss.

Uninstalled it anyway. i never use it, i use Spotify and my HTC instead of iTunes and iPod nowadays...

For the disk, boot from Ubuntu and use GParted on it. Or if you just point Ubuntu at the C it'll format and use that anywway.

False you can use an offical Ubuntu Windows installer and it sections off a partition of your hard-drive and boots from that..

I told it to use 30gb of my hard drive to boot from on my Laptop and 100gb on my Netbook.. was tempted to give it 500gb of my 1TB portable drive,

Both running perfectly without any issues

 

[fingers99]

offical Ubuntu Windows installer

Ubuntu -- the Debian unfree alternative to Windows?

I can't see any valid reason for using Ubuntu rather than a "real" Debian install -- can't understand the hype.