have dell 2002 comp have 37 gb storeage how can i get more space?

Answer 1

hard disk space is a physical component of your pc. in order to get more you need to get a bigger capacity hard drive. you can however delete some old files and unused data using disk cleanup to free up some space.

Answer 2

You PC is certainly using a Parallel ATA (also sometimes called EIDE) internal hard drive.

Most PCs of that vintage have two PATA buses, each PATA bus can support four drives. Assuming you probably have a CD-ROM drive in there, you could get a second drive and add is as another volume (E:, for example, is a likely automatic assignment if your CD-ROM is the D: drive). However, that would require you to decide where things go, C: or E:. Some folks like separate drives for personal data versus OS and Applications.. if you have lots of photos, video, etc. on you C: drive, you might consider this.

Another option is an external drive. You can add a large external drive via USB, and not have to worry about any internal size limits. However, the speed won't be quite as fast as an internal ATA drive. And if you don't have USB 2.0, it'll be far slower, and probably not a good idea. With USB 2.0, you may not even notice the difference. Such drives are pretty cheap these days.. I bought a 500GB external drive this week for $104. Internal drives are cheaper still. The external drive will also show up as a new letter; I have a 1TB F: drive here on my main PC.

Now, if you want a larger C: drive, you can basically clone your existing drive onto a larger drive. This isn't a bad idea for you anyway.. if your PC was new in 2002, you main hard drive is getting a bit on in years. Cloning it this way will get you a nice new drive in there.

Basically, to clone a drive, you hook up your new drive on the PATA bus (any consumer packaged hard drive these days will include full instructions with pictures -- it's not difficult) and run a program that will format and copy your existing drive. Then you replace your original drive with the new one, and you should be good. Keep the old one around as a backup, if you like.

Many new hard drives also some with just this sort of disc cloning software, since replacing the main drive is pretty common these days. If not, there are guides and links for such software all over the place:
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/clone-hard-drive-with-free-disk.html
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=418
http://www.crn.com/white-box/60403842

A few caveats.. for one, not all PCs have the room or spare power for a second drive. Most do, but you'll have to check your specific machine. Some of those tiny Dell desktops only fit a single hard drive.

Depending on .hardware and drivers, you can support at least 137GB on any ATA bus. Some machines support way more, some are limited to this 137GB point. If you're running Windows XP, the limitations will not be in the operating system, but you might want to make sure all your drivers are up-to-date before adding anything.

Anyway, if you computer does support the larger drives, great; if not, you can actually add a 160GB drive (or whatever), you'll just lose a bit.

Answer 3

Buy a second hard drive and plug it into your computer. They should be really cheap for the next 2-4 days for Black Friday Weekend sales.

Given that its a 2002 Dell, you'll want to get one that is IDE (aka PATA). There are two common types of hard drives, IDE (PATA) and SATA that have different connectors. Without an additional adapter, the SATA one won't work with your dell.

Just make sure you have a drive cage or the brackets to mount the new drive.

Answer 4

if you are nood too good with computers try external hardisk (500 gb segate 150$ at harvey norman).just plug and play :) no driver instalation and quite safe

Answer 5

Hi. Just add a larger hard drive. 250Gb is not uncommon.