Added RAM, hard disk space disappeared

Ah, OK. Is there a recommendation for what the page file should be? Currently I'm left with only 3 gigs of space on the C: drive.

Or here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404939.html

It's recommended to run the page file at 1.5x the amount of installed ram.

you might want to turn off the page file to free up somedisk space if you don't care about system dump files.see warning when the page file is turn off.
another option is you can migrate your OS to another bigger disk(300GB disk cost less than $100 today), and then is you can shrink the disk space (volume) for second partition with Windows 7.
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I would not recommend disabling pagefiles - You could disable hibernation if that's enabled - that reserves the size of your RAM on the hard disk for suspending the system.  A combination of the pagefile and hibernate file would be a good explanation of where the space went.

Why do you have such a small C: drive?  Or, what is on the drive using so much space?

My C: partition is 30 gigs (D: partition is 200 gigs). With apps and OS I was as 19.5 gigs used, 10.5 free. Until I installed the RAM, which took it down to 3.5 free.

Try moving the page file from the c drive to the other partition.

For a Win7 system, 30 GB is on the small side... Especially if you planned on installing software.

I agree - move the pagefile to D:

thanks for the tips.

Ok, just did some searching. It seems the consensus is not to move it to a D: drive of the same disk, which mine is. But moving it to a different hard drive is OK. And, Microsoft disagrees and says to put it on a different partition. ??

What about resizing the partitions, say to 50 gig C:, and keeping the page file local to C:?

I've already installed all the apps that I will use. The only other major one that I've been contemplating is VMware Workstation.

Thanks for all the tips. I'll probably go the route of resizing the partition. I keep my C: clean, tmp and TEMP, cache, don't use MyDocs or email client. I image the C: regularly, and losing data is not really a concern. And I'm not concerned about using the memory dump either. I typically don't have lots of apps open at the same time. I will have 20 tabs open on a browser (SRWare Iron), and maybe a text document or two. When I'm doing real work, it's Flash and/or Dreamweaver. Like I mentioned before I'd like to start using VMware workstation, which is why I amped up the RAM.

I'll try the Parted Magic app.

Bear in mind that, in order to be able to resize C:, there needs to be unallocated free space directly adjacent to it.
The best and easiest way to acieve this is to backup everything on D:, then delete it, resize C:, recreate D:, restore files to D:

Please also bear in mind that, while in the Partition Editor, all commands you give are queued, and then applied one after another. If you give an erroneous command and then correct it, the bad command will still be applied first, and only then the good command.
This is how most Partition Editors work, and many partitioning disasters may be explained.
So please be careful; give single commands only and apply them directly; in case of an error, simply close and relaunch the programme.

Please check this link to know the thumb rule in setting up virtual memory or page file.
http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid99_gci1366682,00.html


Here is a way to increase the Virtual memory or Page file on your Windows 7 Computer :

    Go to control panel>system and security>system
    Click on advanced tab
    In the performance section click on settings
    Again click on Advanced > click on Change in the Virtual Memory section
    Change the virtual memory [pagefile size]
    restart your computer

Let me know if this helps.

It took quite a bit of discussion for the author to find out that his real problem was the fact he had initially chosen too small a size for his C drive.

As conveyed in his last post (ID:33968387), he was now going to resize C using a bootable disk I recommended in ID:33965962. For this task, which was suggested by leew in ID:33964674, the author received detailed instructions by myself in ID:33968538.

This is why I suggest to split points between my comments ID:33968538 and ID:33965962, and leew's comment ID:33964674.

Thanks for the help!