how do i clean up my hard drive with out losing anything important like downloads and music and pics?

Answer 1

Assuming you're using an MSOS:

Option 1: Run Scan Disc, Defragment, Disc-Cleanup, Anti-Spyware/Malware/Virus software, etc.

Option 2: Transfer all important files (music, movies, pictures, documents, etc...) to an alternate hard drive, or however you normally back up your data, and reformat your primary drive to start with a clean slate.

Option 1 is easiest, but never gets it back to 100%. Option 2 is time consuming, and tedious; but practically gives you a new hard drive to work with.

Answer 2

One person suggested to run chkdsk /f which is not a good thing to do unless you are crashing or having serious stability problems and suspect disk errors. It should be run without the /f option to determine the health of the drive. The utility actually repairs disk errors and if the disk is bootable repairs the boot sector. If the disk is large, with sector problems, data is lost. Depending on the backup program, data is repacked on the disk and defragmented when restored. That too can be scary for a novice but will give you a contiguous file system.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

First you run a> disk cleanup.this is in your start menu under .programs>accesories> system tools>disk cleanup
Then you go to your command prompt ,this is in your start menu>programs> accesories>cmd. When there type in'chkdsk /f' A space between chkdsk and /
It will ask to do this at next reboot/restart,type 'y' then reboot.
Then go to start menu>programs> accesories>System tools>
disk defragmenter
Then wait a long time and then after your done reboot again.
I hope this was of some help to you

Answer 5

In My Computer "or Computer in Vista"
right click your hard drive
then properties
then go to Disk Cleanup in General
check what u want to delete and uncheck what u need
u can also uninstall all unwanted programs "don't uninstall what you don't know what it is"
also delete all ur un-neede files

Answer 6

If you have McAfee or Norton security center they have an option that helps you clean up the junk of your PC.

Answer 7

Use ccleaner software.

Answer 8

use disk cleanup :)