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Andrei Rînea
Asked: 2009-11-18 08:25:26 +0800 CST

Too little space on a rented Windows Server 2008 virtual machine. How can I free space?

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I rented a VPS / virtual machine with Windows Server 2008 with 16 GB of HDD.

The Windows install was fresh so I went on to install the automatic updates, patches etc. I soon found out that I now have 200 MB free as SP2 couldn't install reporting free space too low.

I've uninstalled all features and roles and every program and I am now at 400 MB free.

How can I go about finding out WHO is occupying my space and HOW / IF I can fix this?

Thanks :(

Later Edit 1 : Initially the hoster put up a Windows 2008 R2 VPS image which had MUCH more available space (I think 7 GB of the same 16 GB)... could it be that R2 uses much less space?

windows-server-2008

3 Answers

  1. I think you're largely boned. We don't sell Windows 2008 VPSes with less than 20GB of space, since our base images (really, really base -- nothing in them we can easily remove) consume about 14GB of space before putting anything useful on the machine.

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  2. Best Answer

    I don't have any specific advice, but if you want to see where the space has gone, try WinDirStat. It's the best tool I know of to visualize disk space.

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  3. If you see any "Uninstall" directories in C:\Windows I'd say you could safely remove them and free up 100megs more or so...

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