to much stuff on laptop, which one do i get rid off?

Lexxx

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The stuff you've mentioned amounts to a total of less than 2GB. Hard drives have been measured in hundreds of GB for quite a while.

Unless this is a very old machine you have not found either a lot of free space (probably a partition which will appear as a or E: drive) or you do have a lot of your own stuff stored.

The chances are that the Microsoft Office software is only a trial and will stop working eventually. MS Works is pretty much useless and the free Open Office can replace all that lot.

i have had laptop for 2 years, it did have free microsoft on it when i brought it, i thought i had gotten rid of it, i brought microsoft software & installed it about 2/3 months after i brought it.

I only have text files on laptop

Lexxx

macman wrote: »

If you have your pics and music on a flash drive already then do know how to back up?
But first of all advise how large your hard drive is and how much free spce is left (go to te drive via My Computer and right click, Properties). As a rough guide you need 15% free space to run smoothly.

:rotfl:i guess i do know how to back up.


(c)file/icon on my laptop, it says total size 32gb, space free 217mb

it also has a data (d )file/icon, that says total size 32.2gb, space free 32.1gb

alot gb, what would hold all that stuff?
why is data space free & why cant i use it? or can i?

macman

OK, so your C partition has less than 1% of free space left, you've probably been saving to that as the default. Copy your data over to the D partition, when it's all safely there delete the original from the C drive.
Also remove any unwanted programs via Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs.

Toxteth_OGrady

Download and run WinDirStat to see what's taking up the space on your C:

http://windirstat.info/

You're obiviously not using your D partiton so you could install something like Easus Partition Manager to merge it into your C and make your C size 64GB.

macman

I'm presuming there is a 3rd hidden partition with the recovery data on it.

Toxteth_OGrady

macman wrote: »

I'm presuming there is a 3rd hidden partition with the recovery data on it.

If Windows is reporting 64GB in the primary and logical partitions I would hazard a guess that it's an 80GB disk with a [STRIKE]10[/STRIKE] 8GB hidden partition.

Lexxx

macman wrote: »

OK, so your C partition has less than 1% of free space left, you've probably been saving to that as the default. Copy your data over to the D partition, when it's all safely there delete the original from the C drive.
Also remove any unwanted programs via Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs.

i have removed programs, all that i think i dont need, now i have 424mb, though still not enough.
i am still trying to find out if Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 & Microsoft Office 2007 are the same things?

should i copy just data, or software aswell

Lexxx

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

Download and run WinDirStat to see what's taking up the space on your C:

http://windirstat.info/

You're obiviously not using your D partiton so you could install something like Easus Partition Manager to merge it into your C and make your C size 64GB.

a bit scared to download more stuff at this point

Lexxx

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

If Windows is reporting 64GB in the primary and logical partitions I would hazard a guess the it's an 80GB disk with a [STRIKE]10[/STRIKE] 8GB hidden partition.

:question: i am lost now.

macman

Lexxx wrote: »

a bit scared to download more stuff at this point

Why?-you've got a full 32GB empty on the 'D' partition? Half your hard drive is still empty.
Just make sure that anything new is installed on D not C.
MS Office 2007 and MS Office Enterprise Edn are slightlly different versions, that's all. Which are the Office programs that you actually use?