I will try to be more accurate.
I have been facing heating issues with my 12 mini from a long, long time. not that it has grown old with time.
Yesterday, after I woke up. I had an idea to Backup, reset and restore. 2 step process.
So I installed and Older version of itunes I had the executable for in my windows 7 Laptop.
Note: Never used an Itunes before.
Manually deleted some files and apps from my iphone which can be installed later and just kept the ones I need once i have setup the phone again which computed to whatever was left in the phone.
Now I connect the phone, and create a Back up on the local drive.
hence I have nothing else in my PC using itunes other than this back up
Now i reset the phone
I open itunes. For no joy I check the free space on Primary Windows drive which "c:" in this case and the free space is roughly about 20 GB
Then I try to restore the phone from the backup.
>>>> it fails
i click on the message for the failed attempt with error and close I tunes.
Soon my windows PC on the system tray notification, tells me my "c" drive is out of space.
I open the "my computer" and I see 100 mb free space left
I restart the PC
but I still see just about 80 mb now
So i decide to clean up. I go to.... Start> Run>
- %temp% Shift+delete everything possible
- temp Shift+delete everything possible
- prefetch Shift+delete everything possible
- Clear recycle bin
My lost space is not yet back. I got scammed