How do I remove the remnants of data from my C: drive?

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I have installed Cygwin software which contains C++ and c compiler, debugger and some more things. Later on I decided to install all what Cygwin contains in itself. But I run out of memory on C: disk. So I stopped installation or extraction. Anyway, Whatever was left on my C: disk it takes its space. I want to remove it.

How can I delete those data remnants from HDD?

I tried CCleaner and C: disk cleaner, but it did not help.

ucas

Posted 2011-11-19T18:01:57.017

Reputation: 323

Have you checked the recycle bin? – ott-- – 2011-11-19T20:48:05.603

No, they are not there. – ucas – 2011-11-19T21:26:05.997

Answers

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Assuming you installed cygwin into c:\cygwin simply delete this folder with all it's content.

But please be aware you also delete you cygwin-users' home directories then. So if you created something under c:\cygwin\home\ you might backup this data prior to deleting.

alk

Posted 2011-11-19T18:01:57.017

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