hard disk help

[matthew1g]

well i have a 60gb hd, i deleted all the porgrams and stuff i did not want and then, when i click on my computer/local disk i see that there is only 6 gb left.

 

 

i estimated that i have about 30 gb used, where shaal i go to delete more items?

[anus]

You could compress your drives, that will save a lot of space. I've done it too. You can do it by right clicking eahc drive and click the General tab and then check the 'Compress drive to save disk space' box. And then click apply and okay.

[Wolf68k]

Silly question, did you empty the Recycle Bin?

As stupid as that question might sound, I've seen many people that don't think about doing that or even know they had to.

 

 

You can use DriveDoppler which can show you how much space each folder it taking up.

There is also FolderSize which is free and can do the same thing (I've never tried it)

Lastly there is Folder Size Browser also free and can also tell you same info about each folder.

 

I like DriveDoppler in that after it's done scanning it'll list them in order of which is taking up the most space first and going down from there. However it don't tell you how much space is taken up by the files in the parent folder.

You have a folder with 1 sub folder in it and the parent folder is taking up 100MB while the sub-folder is taking up 50MB, so yes obviously the files in the parent are taking up 50MB as well, but if you have more than one sub-folder and each is taking up an odd size number like 34.87 then it starts to get harder to figure out.

 

Folder Size Browser is good that it does tell you want the files in the parent folder along with it's sub-folders, but the folder are listed in alphabetical order.

[matthew1g]

if i compress the hd will things still work normally?

 

can i still copy files and see them on another pc or does it work like compressing a floppy? only your pc can read it ?

[matthew1g]

if i compress the hd will things still work normally?

 

can i still copy files and see them on another pc or does it work like compressing a floppy? only your pc can read it ?

 

yeah i did empty rc bin

 

:edit: damn double post

[Wolf68k]

Personally I'm not a fan of compressing the HDD, I use to know of a site years ago that listed the pros and cons of doing it.

Have you tied any of the programs I listed to help you figure out where all of the HDD space is going and if there anything else you can get rid of?

 

My C is 30GB also and I have a lot of crap on there that I really should get rid of, but I've still got 10+GB of space left. I also have a 200GB HDD to install all of my games too.