How can one check the capacity and/or the actual Hard Drive Space available ... there must be a simple way to do that?
I just bought this great External Hard Drive 200 Gigs and took everything off my 60 Gig Lap Tops Hard Drive to free it up.
I was told by doing that I will increase the performance of my half Gig of Ram and oveall performance of the Lap Top in general, is it true and how can I check to see how much restored space is now on the internal Lap Tops Hard Drive now?
Many thanks...
PC Challenged
2007-02-03 17:04:02 · 5 answers · asked by baltic072 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You should be able to click my computer, then right click the C: drive and select properties to view available space. Honestly it would depend on what processes and how much data, music whatever you have saved or you have running as to whether you'd increase the performance. And on older systems sometimes you dont notice much of a big improvement.You can defrag the hard drive by going to disk defragmenter in the system tools located in the start menu, accessories, system tools. This will save alot of wear and tear on your hard drive also and help increase the life of it. I recommend at least once a month if you do alot of work on that laptop.
2007-02-03 17:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by Geek Girl 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Regarding the preformance, what you were told is not exactly true. The fact is that a larger hard drive REDUCES preformance because the drive must seek over more sectors (thats each "block" of area where data gets stored) to read a file. Unless your new drive is on a faster data bus (with laptop this is 99% unlikely) your preformance will not be improved, and the more you fill your drive the more this will be true. Your best bet (if possible - it may not be) is to add a second hard drive to complement your first. Use one hard disk dedicated to the system and the other for data and programs.
2007-02-04 01:17:19 · answer #2 · answered by ram 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who told you that?
Ram for your computer is different from Hard drive space.
you have 512mb of ram and NOW you have 260 GB of hard drive space
all you did was make your 512mb work harder to find what your had stored on the 60GB
Who ever sold you that External drive should have sold you either a 512mb stick or a 1GB memory stick
If you want to see what you are working with
open "my computer"
right click on your "local drives"(C:, and the new external one)
and select "properties"
you'll see a pie chart that details used and free space.
2007-02-04 01:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by Çlïgér4™ ♂ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is true. You might consider burning DVDs with your laptop to backup.
RIght click on the hard drive icon and choose Properties. Under the General tab it will tell you how much free space there is, etc.
2007-02-04 01:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by nopers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there is a very straight-forward way to do that.
Click on Start-->My Computer. Then, select your drive, and right click and select properties, and there you go :)
2007-02-04 01:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by Foyaeman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋