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  2. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese version of the Windows 95 SETUP program supports a special option /AT to enforce that Windows will be on drive C:. Some versions of DOS do not assign the drive letter, beginning with C:, to the first active primary partition recognized upon the first physical hard disk, but on the first primary partition recognized of the first ...

  3. What does "free up disk space" mean — and how do you fix it?

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    Beyond that, here are four totally doable ways to free up disk space on your computer, so you can go back to business (and browsing and shopping and streaming) as usual. Try System Mechanic for 30 ...

  4. Volume (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computer data storage, a volume or logical drive is a single accessible storage area with a single file system, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk. Although a volume might be different from a physical disk drive, it can still be accessed with an operating system's logical interface.

  5. DriveSpace - Wikipedia

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    In the most common usage scenario, the user would have one hard drive in the computer, with all the space allocated to one partition (usually as drive C:). The software would compress the entire partition contents into one large file in the root directory. On booting the system, the driver would allocate this large file as drive C:, enabling ...

  6. 14 Best Free Cloud Storage Options - AOL

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    OneDrive offers just 5GB of storage space for free to start when you open a Microsoft account. Microsoft 365 Personal subscribers receive 1TB of storage with a subscription, which costs $69.99 per ...

  7. Disk Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space. It was introduced in Windows 98 and has been a part of Microsoft Windows ever since.

  8. File system fragmentation - Wikipedia

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    The remainder of the disk space is one free block. Thus, additional files can be created and saved after the file E. If the file B is deleted, a second region of ten blocks of free space is created, and the disk becomes fragmented. The empty space is simply left there, marked as and available for later use, then used again as needed.

  9. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Vista version has been updated in Windows Vista SP1 to include the improvements made in Windows Server 2008. The most notable of these improvements is that the ability to select which volumes are to be defragmented has been added back. [15] Notably, the Windows Vista defragmenter is much more effective than the version included with XP.