my computer keeps saying i have low disk space help!

irishgirl62

I paid £ 140 for the hard drive what i cant understand is I had far more programs on this computer before my old hard drive gave up, and never had low disk warning before the hard drive was put in two months ago

Reggie_Rebel

Can you see anything other than

Local Disc (C)
CD/DVD Drive (D)

When you click on MY COMPUTER

irishgirl62

In my computer i see

files stored in this computer
shared documents user documents

hard disk drives
local disk (C)

devices with removable storage
dvd/cd-rw drive (E) removable disk (F) dvd drive (D) 3 1/2floppy (A)

-TangleFoot-

Right-click Local Disk, select Properties and look under the Hardware tab. What can you see?

JasX

Go to Control Panel > Administrative tools > Computer Management > click on Disk Management in the left hand column.

Any sign of more space there?

(would you know how to post a screenshot hosting it somewhere like https://www.imageshack.us ?)

Your computer shop sound like a bunch of cowboys from the response they gave.... for £140 they should have installed a huge drive over 1TB.... you probably only needed a few hundred GB costing about £50-70.... if its only 8GB odd it will be 10 years old and worth about £2

Morvern_callar

Your disk drive IS your hard drive,.
Looks like your PC shop ripped you off by giving you a tiny replacement hard drive and now they are trying to fool you with technical jargon.

vervin

From one Irishgirl to another !! sorry you have been done . It's the sort of thing that would happen to my [don't know about PC] you all have helped me, so thanks to you all.

irishgirl62

thanks... i looked at disk management and it is saying i have 11% free

they told me it would be better for me to put in a new hard drive than buy an new computer! I will go down there tomorrow... ihave the cd they gave me for the hard drive will look for it and see what it says

-TangleFoot-

Morvern_callar wrote: »

Your disk drive IS your hard drive

To clarify, there are two types of 'drive' in your computer: the hard disk drive (HDD) and the optical disc drive (CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM/DVD±RW). If you provide the model number of your HDD, we can tell you its maximum storage capacity.

irishgirl62

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Right-click Local Disk, select Properties and look under the Hardware tab. What can you see?

i see

WDCWD80EB-28CGH2 DISK DRIVES
the rest are printers dvd and cd drives codes