I've recieved a warning, twice now that says I'm low on vital memory and when I went into My Computer and clicked on DISE_BACKUP (D:), it says I only have 14.7mb of free space available, what do I do? I have a WD external hard drive, but I honestly do not really know if it will help or how. Someone please help me!
2007-01-03 02:48:50 · 11 answers · asked by yell1226 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I am using a PC and running Windows XP.
2007-01-03 03:03:45 · update #1
Do a system cleanup and get rid of al the indingious files that dont need to be there. start>programs>accessories>system tools>disk cleanup after you do that, see if you need to defrag it, to check this go to start>programs>accessories>system tools> disk defragment> double click to open it up, click on the D: drive (the one your trying to get more space on) and click analyze, if a message comes up telling you "you should defrag this drive" go ahead if you want to, but if you dont, you wont gain any space on the drive, if you do defrag it, it is going to give you more space for more files and such..do whatever you want to do.
Try burning some of the stuff you are going to keep off on a DVD or CD and then get rid of something that you arenever going to use again.
2007-01-03 03:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
great answers so far. but there are several things to do. either delete some data that you do not need. if it is a backup of your current computer c: then i'd suggest erasing the back up catalogue and create a new one.
alternatively you can always buy a second third or fourth onfact an unlimited number of external drives for your computer.
you could add more drives internally to your computer or buy a larger capaicty drive or two. copy data from the one drive to the external drive the choice is yours.
you are only limited by your budget and imagination.
and get seagate drives as they tend to have a longer life span the WD in my experiance.
2007-01-03 03:03:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know how big your external drive is, but you certainly are dangerously low in free space. Jings, you must have a lot of files!
Try to burn some off onto CD or somewhere and take 'em off the drive. You sure you're not backing something else up, like an entire mirror of your hard drive or program files or something else that doesn't need to be backed up?
Have a good look through what you've got to see what you really didn't need to back up - you might be surprised.
It once happened to me that through a slip of the mouse I suddenly found I had duplicates of my entire photo collection and that took up a lot of room.
2007-01-03 03:05:18 · answer #3 · answered by champer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well , i would say first of all deleate the old onwanted files , belive me there will be a lot of un wanted files , then see if you can burn it on a cd or a DVD , this way you cn keep a back up of it and use it when ever u want it ,
or what u can do is as u have a external dard drive , just copy paste the files and folders that u have into it so u can create some space it ur D drive ..
Cheers .
2007-01-03 03:00:40 · answer #4 · answered by Elmo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much info to go on - but you can obviously back everything up to the external drive instead and then look at compression methods for backups. Check too that it's just backing up data and not all your program files. Hard to advise - you haven't even said what the operating system is or if it's a PC or a MAC?
2007-01-03 02:54:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Delete Temp files, Move (copy and delete)files to your external hard drive, If you have a CD Writer, consider copying file to cd, then delete them on your hard drives.There are a couple of Apps that may help you, "Dup Detector"...works on picture files, and "Clone Master" for all other files. These will pick up duplicate files for you to decide. Both apps are freely available, just 'Google ' for them
2007-01-03 03:04:02 · answer #6 · answered by johncob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a few options.1. Delete some data. 2. Compress the data that you have but maybe only access occasionally (Winzip for example. 3. Buy a bigger backup drive.
2007-01-03 02:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by Dr Sixpack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try backing up some data onto CD or DVD to get that off your drive... or get another backup drive. The decision is yours to make.
2007-01-03 02:53:36 · answer #8 · answered by Heh? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Delete some unimportant files from your back-up...
14.7mb is dangerously low and will affect your system performance.
Make sure what you are backing up is truly necessary.
2007-01-03 02:51:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Empty as much as you can from it. Save it to the External Harddrive or CDS/DVDS/PENDRIVES.
2007-01-03 03:02:08 · answer #10 · answered by --Lost in this world-- 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋