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Wonder if anyone can help ?
I have a fairly old pc running XP. When new it had hard drive free space of 70gb....or thereabouts.
I have taken off most of my music, films, pics etc but still only have about 1gb of free space available.
I run scans, disk cleaners, clear temporary files etc on a regular basis....so apart from a full system restore is there a way of clearing some of the rubbish out and gettiing back some of my free space ?
Not too sure if this is anything to do with it.....I use JDownloader on a regular basis.....but when downloads are complete I always move the downloads to an external hard drive.
Thanks in advance
I have a fairly old pc running XP. When new it had hard drive free space of 70gb....or thereabouts.
I have taken off most of my music, films, pics etc but still only have about 1gb of free space available.
I run scans, disk cleaners, clear temporary files etc on a regular basis....so apart from a full system restore is there a way of clearing some of the rubbish out and gettiing back some of my free space ?
Not too sure if this is anything to do with it.....I use JDownloader on a regular basis.....but when downloads are complete I always move the downloads to an external hard drive.
Thanks in advance
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If you use drag and drop the file is copied not moved so the original stays on your internal drive.
A utility I have used quite a lot to see where stuff is hiding on a hard disk is Treesize. The free version can be downloaded here
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
It will show what amount of disk space is being taken up by each folder. So gives you an idea where to look for what is taking up all the free space on the drive.
I've only used tree size don't no about the rest.
ccleaner
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
I always cut and paste files and use ccleaner on a regular basis...but I shall give treesize a try
Thanks anyways....looks like I shall have to save up and buy a new pc?
Use Ccleaner, tools, system restore .... highlight the restore points and remove, it will keep the last one.
You certainly don't need to buy a new PC because of hard drive space being used up. As above, a tool like Treesize will quickly tell you where all your space has gone. Common causes are log files rampaging out of control or temp files from video apps not being deleted.
And are you sure you're actually moving your completed downloads instead of copying them?
The disk cleanup wizard also has an option of auto compressing all files over a certain number of day so no access in xp, sadly a feature missing from vista/w7. You can gain a few GB that way with no ill effect.
When I ran the programme that tells you where your files are.....it only found about 10gb of used hard drive. Not a clue what's happened to the rest of the space
As for moving downloads I always cut and then paste them over to a CD or external HD
Open a Command Prompt (click Start then Run and enter cmd into the box). In the window that opens type..
chkdsk
Then press Enter. It may take a while to complete but once done it will report on any errors it finds and display a summary of the file system on your drive.
If any errors are reported then you can run it again in fix mode by typing...
chkdsk /f
Because it is trying to repair the C: drive it will prompt you to reboot so it can do it's work. Reboot and before Windows loads you'll see it working on a blue screen. If it goes OK then it should fix any file system errors.
As always when doing anything involving the file system make sure you have a working back-up available just in case.
More details on chkdsk here, with examples of what information it displays here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHKDSK