C drive is full or running out of space on windows server 2019

Summary

If you find server 2019 C drive is almost full, you can find best solutions here to extend your system drive and make your computer run better.

June 2, 2021

by Andrew Wright

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Your C Drive is Full

You see a red bar on you C drive and a pop up message says “Your C drive is full”. A very common issue that we face and it is very simple to resolve the issue. You need to free up space in your C drive and if you want to increase the space in C drive, you can use the windows built-in or different freeware software to extent your partition.

Poor Computer Performance when Your C Drive is Full

The overall performance of your computer is badly affected when the C drive becomes full. It slows down your computer and Internet, the installed programs run slowly and you cannot install or update windows updates.

How to extend your C drive

Reasons and solutions:

There are many reasons that make your C drive full. You can check the below points and take appropriate action to resole the issue:

1) Recycle bin is holding large no files and eating large space. Empty or delete all the files from recycle bin.

2) The Internet browsing generates lot of temp and cache files. You just need to clear them.

3) The temporary files and directories are created when you installed a program or run windows updates, and sometimes the system does not delete these file which are no longer required after installation. You can delete all these files by running disk cleanup. This clears most of the unwanted files from the disk.

4) The profile temp folder also holds most of the unwanted temporary files. Go to Run and type %temp%, and delete all the files. You can remove files, which are currently in use later.

5) Run a scan on your C drive and check if it is infected with virus.

6) If there are applications that you do not use or you do not require, you can simply uninstall them and gain space on your drive.

7) If you have enabled shadow copy in your windows, delete the previous copies and keep the latest ones.

8) The further step that you can take is reset the page size of your virtual memory

9) You can also customize the size and path of your recycle bin to save space on your c drive.

Extend Your C Drive Partition of Your Windows Server 2019

If you are still unable to release more space then that means your C drive needs to extend. You must add more space to accommodate new files and programs. The built-in Disk Management in Windows does this job, however it has limitations and requires technical skills to understand the process.

There are many freeware available that are every simple to use and perform many disk management tasks if you are using Windows PC Platform like Windows 10 or Windows 7. However, the c drive extending is not available on Windows Server 2019, you may need a safe and reliable tool to do the job.

Extend Your C Drive with IM-Magic Server Edition

This tool not only helps in extending your drive but it also cleans up your drives and saves your time. You can extend, clean, resize, shrink, defragment, create partitions and perform other useful tasks from IM-Magic Partition Resizer server . This tool is made for all the versions of Windows server and equipped with features like extending the partition in 1 second, expanding the server boot system, roll-back which keeps your data secure even if the system goes for shut down accidentally.