[computer-tech-support: 8396] Re: partitions crowded in Windows 7 and a huge file

Sounds like the big file is one of many used to restore a machine to
factory settings, if you do not plan to use restore options then get
rid of it, but be careful.

Click into your start menu, once there enter the search box and type
MSCONFIG
Once in MSCONFIG go to the BOOT tab and see what boot options and
partitions are being used.

To gain more space on your main OS partition you will need to extend
the volume, which is also some steps in case you didnt get anywhere
with MSCONFIG

Open your start menu again, point to the search field and type
DISKMGMT.MSC

Once there you will see all your partitions, by default windows will
not let you remove a drive letter of a boot volume, so go to each of
the partitions and Right-Click and hit Change Drive Letter or Paths,
once in that menu try to remove the drive letter. The one you are
able to remove is the one that you can clear out.

Depending on your partition layout HOPEFULLY it will look like this:

SYSTEM (roughly 100MB) || OS Partition (14GB) || Second Windows
Partition || Third partition

If that is the case then clean out the second partition by either
moving files you want to keep to the third, or just by removing the
volume completely in diskmgmt

Once you remove it you can extend the size of the OS partition and
make the 2 partitions one, but you can only do this if the partition
you want to extend has a partition AFTER it.

I hope I didn't lose you in all of this, feel free to respond back
with questions or comments.

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