SilentMan Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Hey i have a 100 gb hard drive and its full i dunno why i have a couple of "big" games gta 4 being the biggest at around 16 gb then homefront 10,CoD4 at 6, left 4 dead around 6, gmod at 1, and cs:s at 1. And those are the biggest thing in my "add remove programs" list, i am currently defragging my comp but this is kinda makin me mad cause i dunno what to do... :/ thanks for your help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuthus Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Erase old files. Downloads. Just search around your disks and find any deletable files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Only a hundred freaking gig? most laptops come standard with more than that! lol...I have 500gig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuthus Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 You could buy an External Hard Drive and keep Old Files there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuicidalManiac Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 do what I do, buy another drive...However, be aware that you can get carried away with it like I have, I'm up to 16tb now...LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWayne Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Check the files inside (c:/program files) on the C drive .. itunes and other programs hide their files inside that folder. OFC check my documents, my pictures, my downloads, my videos etc... Ext drive is a great idea for your videos, pictures and music... Good luck... if your hard drive gets full and you try to add more you might be looking at serious problems so be careful. You need 15% free space on your drive to defrag and to have room to move files etc... do what I do, buy another drive...However, be aware that you can get carried away with it like I have, I'm up to 16tb now...LOL LOL .... its gotta be porn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus™ Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 also if you ever used xfire to record demo..it'll be stored in c:/program data/xfire/videos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackguard Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 If you do download media frequently, I would say you definition should get a new harddrive. 100GB is a very low limit by todays standards. Wondering whether this 100GB drive is your system drive, and which operating system you are running. The sxs directories on newer windows systems can eat up a lot of space, though there isn't much you can do about that, other than reverting to an older OS, or installing nearly nothing. Also, restore points will build up if you don't limit the policy yourself ( again more relevant on newer Operating Systems ) Sometimes windows paging file allocation can be arbitrarily large ( particularly on older windows ). Although if you don't understand why that is relevant you'd best not mess with it. This is likely obvious but you probably want to right click the drive, go to properties and run "disk cleanup" as a first step. I freed 16 gigs between my temporary files and recycler the other day... because I'm apparently a very poor computer owner. Finally, if its likely media files, or you can't determine the source at all, you might want to pick up graphic disk analysis utility. Fairly useful if you tend to collect a lot of junk you'll never look at again. I've used WinDirStat on a few occasions.. its GPL and available on sourceforge, though somebody might recommend something better. Good luck, get at me if you need more intricate help. edit: Oh almost forgot, probably best to make sure hibernation is turned off as well, it dumps memory states to your drive, and in older versions of windows, this was buggy as all hell. It'll hurt your power saving but, totally worth it. Sleep is good enough, and ( somewhat, problem free ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I3lessed Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Delete your Pr0n stash and any other unneeded files, music, pictures, videos, text documents etc. Careful not to delete anything you might want at a later date like your retro pr0n. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 LOL blessed....Yahh i need to get 1TB HD for making montages and for games im not playing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papito Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 This topic should be moved to Pc support section. If you're using Windows, maybe this can help you: -start > run > write 'cmd' when the window opened write cd %temp% del *.* /F /Q /S cd %systemroot%/temp del *.* /F /Q /S cd %systemroot%/prefetch del *.* /F /Q /S Download CCleaner and run it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifestein Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 LOL .... its gotta be porn Rofl +1 to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antichrist Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 My first stop when I used to run out of space was to run disk cleanup and delete all temp files there. It's not a lot of space normally... but every bit helps. Then I always go down the add/remove programs list and remove things that I no longer use, or haven't used in a few months. As others have suggested, adding an external USB HDD for file storage could free up a lot of space by relocating media files like videos, music, and pictures onto the external drive. They're pretty affordable now.. it really might be your best option. Here's an example, USB 2.0, and only 5400RPM, so running from the drive isn't going to be as fast as SATA, but it'll work great just for storing all your meadia files: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148407 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timberwolf Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 #1 Thing to do is get rid of the 100gig drive I had a friend just buy a new laptop with 640Gig a video card and 4 gigs of ram duel core processer for under $500 USD #2 delete as much "junk" you don't need( Music you can always get again) pictures files folders programs ...You could always upload your pictures on FB or photobucket you can save your music on a MP3 player or Burn it on a CD Memory stick Once you deleted Moved your "junk" download Ccleaner or even better (Advance system care) both free and no virses And yes defrag your harddrive Having a full hard drive is what slows you down and ya LAG I run a 10,000 RPM 600Gig 32mb cache WD VelociRaptor Sata drive. And a 2 TB WD Caviar Black for Programs Video < hehehe and music Games : Wolfeinstien, IL-2 Stormivik Cliffs of dover, Silent hunter 4, NavyField, Battlefield free4play Programs: FacetrackerNoir,Webcam software, ATI manger (videocard) slimdrivers, Advance systemcare 4, Logitech HD, Fraps, Spaccy, Ccleaner, MSI afterburnner ( Overclocking videocard) Joystick driver + more and all my window 7 apps Arobe Java ETC I still have only used 7% of 100% in HD 2 and 11% of 100% in HD 1 so my 11% would be 110Gigs Depending on what your computer is Look into getting Ram aswell ...Running less then 4 gigs now adays is like running a 100gig harddrive ..thing of the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentMan Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 (edited) This is a family computer as well so... and i dont watch/keep my pr0n on this computer, i have ccleaner and ran it didnt do much but im looking into an external HDD, And this is quite an old computer running on XP, also only have 8gb and defrag says it might not run properly.... ANDDD i have 2.5gb of ram which i bough recently Thanks for your help guys Ill look for some junk to delete but... yeah Edited July 16, 2011 by SilentMan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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