Computer help

[RsStanG1987]

Anyone know what the hell can be filling my hard drive up? I erased all my videos and music yesterday because i got a message saying harddrive low. I have a 40gig and 33gigs are being used by my then there is another 4 gigs that the computer only used i cant touch. Any ideas what to look for and delete.

 

[GT89Mustang]

Music, pictures, any large games? Go to delete programs and see if you have any large programs. Do you have spyware/virus protection?

 

[idareu]

Check out these links for cleaning up your harddrive:
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/techfiles/clean_hd.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/northrup_restoreperf.mspx
http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/xp15minutes/

If you can swing it you may want to think about putting in a second hard drive just for storage. You can pick up an 80gb drive for about $45+.
List of Internal drives from NewEgg.com
List of drives from CompUsa

Or if you don't want to mess around with installing an internal drive, you can get a USB external drive for about $80.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822101017

 

[Blakthorn]

I used to have a program that would search your entire computer and give you a blue bar graphs of where all your space is on your hard drive.

It would show you what directories, folders, and even which sub folders were holding the largest files and taking up the most room so you could browse into them and delete anything you did not need.

It was a free program but I found something similar

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Disk_Analysis_Utilities/Disk_Space_Inspector.html

 

[RsStanG1987]

I deleted all my music and most of my pictures.. I guess ill just invest into a second hard drive.

 

[90blacknight]

You've deleted all your music, videos, and pictures and you're still short on space? 40 gigs? What kind of programs are you using? Somethings up...

 

[RsStanG1987]

You've deleted all your music, videos, and pictures and you're still short on space? 40 gigs? What kind of programs are you using? Somethings up...

I dunno? i only have 2 games on the computer and they are run from the cd they come on so i dunno. I have macafee security sweet with virus scan and everything but i have no idea what can be up..

 

[5.0 con-vert]

too much pron pics? Ask Ernad!

 

[I_AM_CANADIAN]

Re-format the hard drive, your computer will thank you.

 

[RsStanG1987]

Re-format the hard drive, your computer will thank you.

I would do that but i cant find the mcafee disk to reinstal it on my computer.