I am trying to figure out a way to remove space that has virtually made my hard drive full!!!!! I have tried to add/remove programs and have removed almost everything except Abode and Internet Explorer and have tried to use disk defragmentator and get a message that I only have 3 mb of free space on my hard drive. I cannot figure out what's being stored in this space. My hard drive holds 9.27 GB and there is only 2.24MB of free space. Can someone help me free the demons that are in my hard drive? I do not have the boot disk. This computer is a Gateway with Windows XP Operating System
One thing I use on my PC's at home is a application called CCleaner. Its like disk clean up that comes with any Windows OS but CCleaner finds a lot of the stuff that disk clean up doesn't. I ran it last year on my Sister in Law's lap top and it freed up 4GB.
You may have a partioned drive? 10 Gig seems very small? Go to windows explorer and see how many drive letters you have. Right click on each hard drive letter and then click properties for the sizes. The drive may have been partioned with a minimal space for the OS and Programs leaving the partioned space for storage. That method of hard drive use allows for quicker defrags, lesser search times and higher possibility of stored data retrieval if failure occurs. Example: 80 Gig hard drive installed. 10 Gig allocated to drive C: and 70 Gig to D: PS: Whens the last time you cleaned out the Internet Explorer cookies and files?
DDRDan is correct. Also, 10 GBs does sound pretty small for a system that cam with Windows XP. Just installing XP and all of the updates and Internet Exploroer updates would take up quite a big chunk of that space. Even if you do get it "cleaned Up" if you truly only have a 10 GB hard drive you are going to refill it up quickly. You might want to look into spending few dollars and get a 60 or 80 GB drive instead. I believe you should be able to pick one of those up for around $40-$50 dollars.
Thanks Dan, Dave and Romworks for the help you folks provide! Welcome back Romworks, hope all is well!
Thanks. It has been awhile since I last posted something. I have come on from time to time but not as much as I used to. Has been very busy which I shouldn't complain. I will try to be on more often. Randy
