I have a 60G hard drive on my laptop, I am almost full, how do I see what is taking up all my space ?

Question

I have 23 G on Documents and 6 in Program files but where is the rest?

Answer 1

Try this free trial period software that you can run on your drive and it'll tell you what folders contain what. It'll save you right-clicking properties all the time.

http://www.foldersizes.com/?gclid=CIvF9MSl1okCFSTBXgodHnYS4Q

Windows will be taking up about 5Gb. Also, did you know that a 60Gb hard drive as advertised by a manufacturer only actually stores 55.9Gb of file space due to the way bytes are turned into kilo bytes and they are turned into mega bytes?

Answer 2

I will go with the 1st answer
Videos consume the hard drive very quickly
However you have 60 GB drive, which is huge
If you don’t know what is taking your hard drive's space; then I will recommend that you use the recovery cd and format your laptop and reinstall the system again, don’t use the file transfer wizard, just save your important files on removable drive and then format your laptop. Don’t do this step unless you know how to do it.

Answer 3

You need you Defragment your computer and when you done with you go to the Add/ Remove Programs under the control panel and remove your unused programs. Also search you whole computer for Mp3 , Video files , And other picture and music files and remove them

Answer 4

Double click "my computer." Right click the hard drive icon and select 'Explore." XP will tell you the size of everything from drive C, down to file x. In all likelihood, your pc is filled up with pictures, music, and other documents.

Answer 5

I think if you go into my computer and right click on the "c" drive and select properties it shows you a graph of what's in there and what is free.....not sure if this answers your question or not. usually downloaded music takes up alot of space and slows your computer down. Go to control panel and add/remove programs also and start getting rid of stuff you don't use.

Answer 6

23 for documents + 10 for programs including Windows.

Did you empty your recycle bin...
What about your temp file for when you visit the internet... you could have 10 Gb in there
And there is your swap file used by Windows for extra memory. You should set it for 500Mb.

Besides that... music and video files will gobble it.

Answer 7

Well you could always try deleting software or files that you don't need. I suggest running disk defragmenter and disk cleanup. Or you could just buy an external hard drive and store things in there. Some helpful programs are CCleaner and Defraggler. You might want to check them out. Good luck!

Answer 8

there may be alot of cookies and temp internet files if u click on start and then under programs then accessories you should find system tools click on disk cleanup this will clean up all unneccisary files on your computer.

Answer 9

THIS IS VERY EASY. DON'T MESS WITH TRIAL PROGRAMS OR ANY OF THAT B.S. Just open up my computer/ then open up the C disk. See that list of folders? Just right click on each of them and then go to properties, that will show you how big each folder is.

Answer 10

go to start>settings>control panel>then Add or Remove programs... then remove any programs that you dont use anymore... also, try running a disk clean-up... this happend to me yesterday and thats what i had to do to free up some space.
hope this helps...