my computer keeps saying i have low disk space help!

irishgirl62

I hope someone can help me i got a new hard drive on my computer and have not installed all programs on the computer that used to be on it and it keeps saying low disk space..i am using windows XP what could be causing this?

irishgirl62

I deleted adobe to install my printer and it now saying still not enough disk space! i have done disk clean up what else can i do?

TonyMMM

Have you put the new drive in as an extra drive or as a replacement for what was already there ?

When you look in "My Computer" what drives do you have (C, D etc.) and what do the properties for each say (Used space/free space ?)

Reggie_Rebel

The new HDD was bigger than the old one wasn't it?

irishgirl62

TonyMMM wrote: »

Have you put the new drive in as an extra drive or as a replacement for what was already there ?

When you look in "My Computer" what drives do you have (C, D etc.) and what do the properties for each say (Used space/free space ?)

the new drive was put in as my old drive was broken... I looked at the properties it says used space 7.12gb free space 323mb

reggie rebel it was replacement drive put in by the computer repair shop

kwikbreaks

> I looked at the properties it says used space 7.12gb free space 323mb

That is one tiny tiny drive - is it an SSD? If not it must have more than one partition unless it's about 10 years old or more. That seems a reasonable size for a recovery partition. If so Windows was installed into the wrong partition.

molerat

323Mb is low disc space. If this was installed by a pro shop I would take it back and get them to sort it. The drive is far too small for what you need (or partitioned incorrectly)

irishgirl62

Thanks for your replies... i did ring the shop and they said the disk drive is nothing to do with them as they replaced the hard drive. I am not sure what the difference as my computer never had this before with more programs on it

irishgirl62

kwikbreaks wrote: »

> I looked at the properties it says used space 7.12gb free space 323mb

That is one tiny tiny drive - is it an SSD? If not it must have more than one partition unless it's about 10 years old or more. That seems a reasonable size for a recovery partition. If so Windows was installed into the wrong partition.

what is SDD?

Baldur

Solid State Drive - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

isofa

I v much doubt they'd have put in a very expensive SSD as a quick replacement for a standard hard drive... more likely they had an 8GB one knocking about and popped it in. 8GB was quite popular 5 to 7 years ago for laptops, but I it was a lot longer than than when sizes were that tiny for desktops, I've a 10 year old drive in one which is 80GB and that's the smallest I have.