Trying to free up hard disk space the least practical way
Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 9:23 pm
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Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
was: using IBM Recovery disk
|if it wipes off the hard drive,
|does that mean that all the disk space has been recovered?
|In other words, I didn't need a new computer?
| Wanda
It would be interesting to know how these ideas got into your head.
The *new computer* thing reminds me of Daddy's story
about how Uncle Vince sold his new car when the tires wore out.
Doing a FORMAT on your drive
followed by a re-install of Windows and a re-install of all your programs[1]
is the **LEAST** desirable way to achieve what you want.
There are MUCH better ways to free up hard disk space.
It sounds like a little housecleaning is all you need.
If you don't purposely save a lot of files to your hard drive,
I'll bet you can get your Free Space back to a nice number
with a couple of easy steps:
Look in your Recycle Bin and make sure there isn't anything valuable there.
In MyComputer, right-click C: and select Properties.
Click the Disk Cleanup button.
Make sure all 4 categories are ticked.
Click OK.
Right-click on your Recycle Bin and select Properties.
Grab the slider and move it down to 1%.
Click OK.
There. That was easy--and you didn't have to nuke the whole thing.
Now go back to MyComputer; C:; Properties
and see if the Free Space is a number you like.
This would be a good time to DEFRAG your hard disk.
Select the Tools tab then Defragment Now.
(This step is going to take quite a while to complete.)
[1] That is what the Recovery Disk does
--and this assumes you haven't *added* programs since receiving your computer--
and (like I said before) any nice tweaks you have made
to the way your programs look/handle would get nuked.
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