I have a dell b130 inspiron notebook with a 40 gb hard drive, 512 mb of ram, a 1.60 GHz processor and windows xp home edition. i keed running into the problem with randomly losing hard drive space. I have about 33 gb usable on the hard drive and only enough stuff on it to use up about 13 gb, so i should have about 20 gb free. the thing is, i dont. I had this problem about 2 weeks ago, so i backed up all my important files, and did a full system restore to put it back to factory settings. everything was fine until today when i looked at it, it says that i have only about 6 gb free when like i said earlier, i should have about 20 free. does anyone know what might be causing this?
2007-06-23 05:27:40 · 4 answers · asked by steelhitman12456 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Have you cleaned up your hard drive by deleting old files and cookies? Then do a defrag. That helps me.
2007-06-23 05:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you been cleaning out your cache?
From Internet Explorer, Tools, Internet Options:
delete cookies, delete files (offline), and clear history.
(You can also set days to store history to 0.)
----- These actions will clear your computer’s cache. (For a description of cache, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/ph/yahoo/mail/access/access-27210.html )
Run Disk Cleanup, Scandisk, Defrag at least every two weeks (the more frequently they are run, the less time they take).
Do you automatically make backups of files? Example: I have Word and Excel set to automatically create a backup file as I go along. These come in handy when you mess up, however, you have to go back and manually delete them.
Other than that, I would go into Safe Mode and run any anti-spy or antivirus program you have. You stand a better chance of catching any self-executing viruses if you look for them in safe mode. When you restart, you may find your icons out of order. No biggee. Just drag them back.
2007-06-23 05:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the beginning, you would be conscious that working low on disk area isn't healthful to your computing gadget, attempt and save a huge portion of your stressful disk loose. Now to help get some area. frequently lots of area is used with the aid of great data which you not at all use or you need to burn to CD or DVD to save away. to come across the biggest data on your computing gadget only open up seek, initiate -> seek click "All data and folders" do no longer enter in a seek question, only hit seek word a column observed as "length" click the column identify to type the outcomes with the aid of length type the information til the biggest data are displayed on the suitable look during the outcomes and delete/backup the data you now no longer desire
2016-10-03 00:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have know idea but what i do no is this go 2 www.download.com n in the search box tyep tuneup utilites 2007
install it as i find this program great for finding and fixing erros within the pc
2007-06-23 05:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋