this laptop is fairly new, less than a year old. it was quite expensive about £800-900.
its meant to have 53gb on (c:) i think thats the c drive.
wheres all my space gone?
i have 1000 songs tops and maybe 100 pictures and no videos and a few documents like school work. thats pretty much all i have.
but some how i have used up 35gb?! how is this possible?
cheers(Y)
2007-12-23 08:13:30 · 4 answers · asked by ... 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
You need to clear out your internet cache from time to time. In IE, click on Tools, Delete Browsing History, Delete Files.
Alternatively, go into Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Free up space on your hard disk. This will run a diagnostic telling you what to delete.
2007-12-23 08:29:24 · answer #1 · answered by Michael B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the size if the files/ pictures. Downloading 1000 is a lot and so is 100 pictures. As for the songs, the average size of a music file is 4 megabytes. Thats 400 megabytes which is 4 gigabytes. Those songs must've been a lot larger than 4 megabytes. Plus you have the 100 pictures which must be very large.
It might not be just the songs/pictures that has used up your 32 gigabytes. The school work could be heaps of kilobytes. Delete your temporary internet files periodically because that takes up space on your hard drive as well. Delete any thing on he hard drive you don't want or don't need to free up space.
2007-12-23 08:31:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A short song file can use 2 Mb of space, so 1000 songs would be greater that 2 Gb. If your songs are longer, it goes up.
The default for system restore space for your drive is 8 Gb
Start the disk cleanup utility [programs\ accessories\system tools] and see how much space it can cleanup. The operating system and installed programs are real space hogs.
I have used over 60 GB on my system and only a percentage of it is personal data. My last data backup was 790 Mb.
2007-12-23 08:37:49 · answer #3 · answered by Fed-up 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it depends on the size of the files that you downloaded. You have to be very careful. I could also be downloaded programs and things like that.
2007-12-23 08:21:37 · answer #4 · answered by Bass_Guitar_Player 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋