Not enough Hard Drive Space

Hi Guys,

I wander if anyone can help. I have a fairly old laptop only 100GB. I've only got 1.7GB left.

I've removed all photo', documents, videos, mostly everything.

I've tried to uninstall most programs.

Done a disk clean, defraged etc.

I have Itunes on the computer and this says I am only using 19GB for this.

What else could be using the rest of the hardrive.

I suggest you run Glary Utilities, particularly the Disk Analysis tool (under the Files & Folders tab).

You may just have a load of temporary files, which can be easily removed with GU's "one-click maintenance" option.

Filling up the hard disk beyond about 75% of capacity slows your machine down and strongly increases the chances of a disk failure. You should really buy some sort of external HDD for backup purposes — something like this would do the job, although I'd recommend 320GB/500GB — you could put all your media on it and keep your laptop's hard drive for documents and program files.

Thanks for that I will certainly give that a go.

All my media except iTunes is on an external hard drive. Would that take up so much space. I'm not mental about music but have some on it.

A 100GB hard drive actually contains no more than 93GB of 8-bit (power of 2) addressable storage, and your operating system alone probably takes up 10GB or 15GB of that, leaving less than 80GB. So your iTunes collection, at 19GB(?) is using up at least a quarter of your HDD's capacity.

Try that GU utility and you can get an exact breakdown.

http://windirstat.info/ does the same as Glary, but presents the results in a graphical manner. very useful....

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

They are both good tools for freeing up space. Even though 19GB is taken up with music I didn't realise how much space my iPhone Apps take up.

Looks like I'll have to delete a few of them.

Thanks.

Older acers can have a huge recovery partition(50% of the drive) which might be only 10% occupied.

Move your iTunes to another drive.