Full Hardrive!?

Question

My hardrive is full, and i was wondering if anyone had any ideas to help with that. With out having to buy a new hardrive. Is there things i can do on my computer as far as settings.

Answer 1

best thing to do would be to backup all your work and get someone to format it for you and reinstall windows.

Answer 2

Well Dude,

Think of your hard drive as a full glass of water. What would you have to do to not make is so full?

1. Uninstall programs you do not need through the control panel, add and remove programs.
2. Copy your pictures, movies, and music to CD/DVD's, or an external and then delete them from your system.
3. Turn off system restore. This will take up to 12% of your hard drive space. But be careful. You will not be able to "undo" the OOPS! You can take this 12% to 5% and get some space back without turning it all off.

You can right click on "My computer" and then go to "properties". This is where you will see system restore.

4. Turn off your pagefile.sys. Not recommended.

In any case, you are looking at a hard drive upgrade soon.

Good luck.

Tom

DON'T COMPRESS. You will hate yourself for it.

Answer 3

Run Compression, but most times you need at least some free space to run compression.
I would be inclined to have a back up somewhere, on DVD or CD at the least.
Not good having a TOTALLY full hard drive, in fact, if it was , how would you operate on the net? So many temp files, so little space...

Answer 4

try a program called CleanUp.

http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/

It should free up some space. Try unintalling programs you never use. Also download winzip and zip up files ( music, pics) things you don't use anymore. All else fails. get a second HD. Make it a slave drive and store things on your second one. That will save you the headache of reinstalling everything

Answer 5

Start deleting things you don't need and/or use.