60GB Drive yet running out of space.. what gives?

Question

My laptop is less then a year old yet its telling me that my 60GB drive is running low on space? I've installed no games and everything I've put on my HD takes up less then 10GB. How can I be running low on space? What have I been doing that is taking up all this space? How can I open up space without deleting what I have?

Answer 1

Hi...

First I'd do a "Defrag" on that drive and see what it shows you. Proceed from there depending on your results.

You can do a "Defrag" from the command prompt; or under your Control Panel Tools options.

Good Luck !

Ed VA

Answer 2

More work, less porn .................. nah i'm kidding

What you first off want to do is go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Clean up. Run this ... it will get rid of some unnessessary files from your machine. When you delete stuff do you ever empty your recycle bin? This will empty your bin, your temp files, your temp internet files. It can also compress files on your machine (I do not recommend this, a compressed drive cannot be recovered if it crashes) if you are REALLY low on space.

I would also go and delete anything as far as picture or other "items" that you are not really needing.

After you are done there go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter ... this will move the files on your HDD (not your directory) and make stuff start up faster. Also on the Defrager you will see % of free space. If this is really low then you have a lot more than 10 GB used up.

If this still doesn't solve anything your memory problem might be RAM related. You might be running too much stuff at the same time and your machine can't handle it all. What you what to do it System Properties > Advanced > Proformance > Settings > Advnaced > Virtual Memory > Settings ... (like really need to make that so it is less clicks) Increase this size. What this does is uses HDD space after your RAM is filled up.

Answer 3

Just check your laptop thoroughly.See the drive which takes a lot of space.go to tools and in folder options,click the view tab and select show hidden files and folders.Thr might b sm large hidden files that r using your HD space.

Answer 4

you can try to defrag and see if that frees up space. Also, clear out your recycle bin.

You can compress your drive to get more space, but it significantly degrades performance. My recommendation is to find out what is taking up the space, and start deleting stuff you really don't need to have.

Answer 5

Are you sure is space memory and not virtual memory? (ram)
go to mycomputer, right click on your c drive and see how much space do you have, below that you can see information how to clear space

or you can just buy an external hard drive which is not that expensive

Answer 6

Check the size of folder C:\windows\CSC ( it's hidden system files). If that is too large, turn off by right clicking on C drive and unchecking 'indexing service', then delete c:\windows\Csc

Answer 7

check temp directory and run disk cleanup
do you have a lot of offline web pages?
do you do a lot of video processing the temp files for whatever the program you are using may need to be manually deleted

Answer 8

Be sure to run your security programs (anti-virus and anti-spyware)--a worm sometimes will take up a chunk of memory, replicate itself (taking up twice as much memory), replicate itself again, and so on and so forth until your machine tells you it is low on memory.

Answer 9

Right click on START
Left click on Explore
Right click on C:drive
Left click on Properties
Left click on Disk Clean up