what is wrong with my computer's hard drive?

Question

today i was trying to download a file but all of a sudden it said no space in my drive. then i opened the properties of my hard drive and i saw that all the space was used but that is impossible. then i went to add or remove program and added all the space that the software and other stuff in my computer takes up. it was 7 gb altogether but my hard drive is 69 gb. then i opened my pictures folder properties and it was 2.18 gb. but all the things in my hard drive takes up only about 9.18 gb but my hard drive is 69 gb. and if i count all the other file it would probably be like 10 gb. what is wrong?

Answer 1

You need to go here, to get more professonal help. It's a free tech forum.
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/

Answer 2

Download the free program JDisk Report. You may have to delete some files to make room. After you scan it will tell you where all your memory is being used, and you will be able to delete the non-necessary stuff from your PC. Once you delete all the stuff you don't need, defrag your hard drive, as long as you have it about 30% empty. When you fill a drive that much it has to split up any large files and puts them into smaller empty spots and really slows things down when it tries to access them.

Answer 3

You may want to copy everything you want to save to discs
and backup your system. Then you may want to defrag your hard drive to help clean it up. You can always get an external
hard drive and copy the items to it and then delete them from your internal hard drive.
Good Luck.

Ed

Answer 4

with the cd im afraid to say when you do a clean install with the xp cd it formats the whole hard drive erasing everything in its path then it continues to install a fresh copy of windows xp

Answer 5

You can free up disk space by using windows disk cleaner

click START- ALL PROGRAMS- ACCESSORIES-SYSTEM TOOLS then look for disk cleaner

Answer 6

either a virus or bad sectors. i would wipe and reformat.