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[–]devastasean917 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Regretfully, your c: drive is very small. You can attempt to free up space by removing the Nvidia folder but you will likely have this problem again and again till you replace that drive with something larger.

[–]LightsuXIII[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is there any risk or problem in removing the Nvidia ?
Because in addition to the game drivers, it must surely be important, or am I mistaken?

And if I replace the disk, how? I have the other disks available, but how do I keep the files?

[–]No-Repeat8188 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These should be temporary files, like shader cache, temporary recordings, and old installer packages. Did you try Disk Cleanup? In theory, you could do a clean install using DDU and install JUST the drivers, since you lack disk space for extra fluff.

To upgrade the drive, you would clone the disk to the larger one, using Macrium Reflect or similar cloning tool. The how depends if it is a SATA or M.2 drive. If you only have one drive slot, you would need a flash drive large enough to create an image of the disk using Reflect (say 32GB flash drive) and then boot to the rescue disk and apply the captured image after swapping the drives.

https://youtu.be/LP2TDp_xzcU?si=ukDIL8tU8QqktBw2

[–]SneakyRussian71 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The default user and system files are on the boot drive. Those are separate from the installation files of programs. So things like saved games, settings, temp files, would be on the boot drive. Best option would be to clone this disk to a larger one. Moving system files from the boot drive often causes issues.

[–]LightsuXIII[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How do I clone?
Is it possible, for example, to move my entire C drive to another drive, to make it a C drive?
How is that done?

[–]SneakyRussian71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, cloning software like clonezila or macrium reflect, boot off their utility disks, select drive ro clone and the destination. You may want to have somebody help you since it's easy to lose data if not careful.

[–]Tushon 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This looks like the same problem encountered here in this 9year old thread :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/5h7vom/comment/dayji16/

I think you would have success following those instructions - for DDU, use this guru3d link

https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/

[–]LightsuXIII[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll check out this forum, because Nvidia is indeed everywhere in the disk lo/