2007-07-18 03:41:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You cannot force a hard drive to store more than what it is capable of storing. If the drive is listed as a 500gig hard drive, you cannot force it to store 600gigs of data. There are a number of things you can do to help store more data on it, but the limit will always be 500gigs. Provided you are using NTFS file system, you could do as others have suggested and turn in file compression at a small cost of efficiency. Files such as application files, .zip, .rar, and Pkzip files cannot be further compressed using disk compression, and trying to do it will waste large amounts of CPU time and accomplish nothing. To possibly create some additional space, you can also run Disk Cleanup, removing temporary files and such that are not needed any longer which will free up space for additional storage space.
Another avenue to consider, would be installing another hard drive, formatting it to NTFS with disk management, then using disk management, convert both drives to dynamic rather and basic. Once they are in Dynamic mode, you can select the unused areas and set them as a spanned drive, doing this will allow you to store data across any and all drives installed and selected during this process. It doesn't mean that any one drive will actually be made bigger, but this will make better use of the space you have available by automatically writing data across multiple drives as space is needed.
2007-07-18 04:33:29 · answer #1 · answered by John S 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It Cant Be Made Bigger, But Yeah You Could Compress The Files..Or Buy Another External Hardrive.
2007-07-18 03:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time no.
Sometimes however rarely, yes.
If you open the case and find the drive model number you will be able check on line to see if it is a larger drive formatted down to 500GB.
If you are willing to delete the existing information and repartition the drive you can sometimes get 5 to 10% more.
I have to be honest with you though, this doesnt happen as much these days as it used to.
2007-07-18 03:56:06 · answer #3 · answered by 'Dr Greene' 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can't make a hard drive bigger, but you can use compression to store more files on it. You will take a noticeable performance hit though.
2007-07-18 03:46:19 · answer #4 · answered by emmittnervend 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It also depends on the format of the drive, for instance NTFS stores data more efficiently than FAT32. You can convert your drive to NTFS if it is FAT32. Check Windows Help section if you need more information.
2007-07-18 04:26:43 · answer #5 · answered by ray_diator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can enable compression on the drive. But if it's full of movies, mp3 and jpegs there's no point as these files are already heavily compressed.
2007-07-18 03:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by mark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The actual drive itself can not be made bigger
However you could fit a secondary drive if your computer case will allow - or if not an external drive would do the job.
2007-07-18 03:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by Mike B 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no u would need to get a new hard drive if its full
2007-07-18 03:44:23 · answer #8 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, you can zip your documents or files by Win zip or others similar software ,so that you can put more documents inside your computer.
2007-07-18 03:48:39 · answer #9 · answered by Hallo! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Upgrade the RAM, or maybe use virtual memory?
2007-07-18 03:47:25 · answer #10 · answered by Aynat_lol 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋