Accidentally uninstalled programs on PC - help pls!

macman

Exactly. You need around 15% free disk space to make your system run smoothly, so you either need to upgrade your hard drive, fit a slave drive, or shift some data off the original. Since you presumably already have a backup of the music, you can delete the original-but in which case you need to create a new backup.
If you don't free up some space your system will grind to a halt.

alanrowell

longtimelurker54 wrote: »

Many thanks for your reply. I guess I just assumed that programs would be the heaviest/largest things occupying space.

Data - videos, music, that sort of thing take the most space

longtimelurker54 wrote: »

I keep getting a message pop up at bottom of screen saying you are running really low on C disk space so that's what's got me worried. I do have around 20 or 30 GB of music stored on there.

You have a very small drive, you have a LOT more than 30GB of stuff on your C drive or there's a lot of junk hiding away

longtimelurker54 wrote: »

What is a "D partition"?! Think I have a D drive which is the CD drive. Sorry, not at all technical....

Sensible people keep data (music, videos) separate from their programs as it's easier to sort things out if Things Go Wrong. If you have a desktop then it's generally a physically separate drive but on laptops & netbooks you can logically split the hard drive between programs and data using a "disk partitioner". The latter would not however solve the problem of insufficient space as the partitioner doesn't create extra space.

In your case I would first run something like CCleaner to remove crap from your computer then see how much space is there.

If it's still a problem then use software like WinDirStat to find out what is big - but don't delete until you told us.

I'd also invest in either an additional drive (internal or external) with a capacity of around 1TB and put all your data on it.

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Moving data to any one drive (including usb drives) puts it at risk of failure, if it's important you should keep 2 copies of it at least.

How big is the c drive? which operating system?

Use windirstat to see where the space is being used, you may have some junk on there that you don't know about

moonrakerz

martinthebandit wrote: »

Get yourself one of these

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/174844

or similar and store all your music etc on it and never worry about running out of space again

Just got one - from Amazon. £10 cheaper .....................:D

longtimelurker54

Hi

Many thanks for the further advice.

We'll buy the external drive first and copy across my music and important files so we know these are secure.

Will then run the two things people have recommended above (CCleaner and windirstat) and hopefully get things moving again from their current sluggish state.

We'll need to do this on a desktop and a laptop as they are both giving us the same message about memory being low. Both are fairly old so they do have small capacities, but apart from our music which takes up a whole chunk of space, the capacities are fine for our needs.

Hopefully a clean up and the programs suggested above will sort us out so thanks again for the advice.