Need help reducing the amount of stuff on my hard drive?


  1. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 64bit
       #1

    Need help reducing the amount of stuff on my hard drive?


    Hi im a computer geek and have drawn a interest in computers recently. i need help cleaning up my hard drive because i have nothing on the drive and i cant reduce the amount. i have used every free thing out there and defrag, system clean up, and delete restore points. i moved all my photos, movies, and doc to my new external hard drive. so i don't understand whats going on. so i came to the conclusion that i need to weed out the system drive. so im asking for help on what i can delete and what to keep. i know that you don't know whats personally on my computer but if there things that i can delete then let me now. also i keep on getting private folders on my drive that don't let me access them and there named like thing "3da3a013e05bac45ee4e8b19d917" so let me know if i can delete because there is like 5 of them. so plz help me want to have more experience with computers.
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  2. Posts : 10,994
    Win 7 Pro 64-bit
       #2

    Hello mike and welcome to Seven Forums.

    I'd take a look at the suggestions in this tutorial on how to free up hard drive space.

       Warning
    Deleting the wrong thing can render your computer useless. Make a system image just in case something goes wrong.


    Hard Disk Space - Free Up and Recover
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  3. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #3

    You might also like WinDirStat it gives yo a graphical representation of space used on your drive.

    As marsimar said. Do not delete any system files it will destroy windows
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  4. Posts : 194
    Windows 10 x64
       #4

    From an elavated cmd prompt, turn off hibernation. This will remove a file that is the size of your RAM.
    powercfg -h off
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  5. Posts : 12,177
    Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64
       #5

    If you are trying to reduce the partition size, Windows puts hidden folders near the end of the partition.
    Disk Management can't move those files. Partition Wizard can.
    Partition Wizard
    The CD or USB memory stick option is the best approach.

    If you have a different issue then post a screen shot of your Disk Management.
    For posting the information , enter 'Snipping tool' in the Start button > Search box, hit enter. Select the area you want to post and save to a convenient place.
    How to Post a Screenshot in Seven Forums
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  6. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #6

    mike,
    welcome to sevenforums.

    Don't sweat the small stuff.

    My favorite program for getting an overview of what is using how much space is TreeSizeFree
    JAM Software - Windows Freeware

    As has been mentioned, a snapshot of diskmanagement output will be helpful.

    HOW TO POST A SNAPSHOT OF DISK MANAGEMENT DISPLAY
    Run disk management:
    WIN |
    type DISKMGMT.MSC | ENTER
    WIN=
    key with Microsoft logo on top.


    Maximize the output of Disk Management:
    ALT-Spacebar
    key combo | X key (selects Maximize) |
    Drag the field separators (such as between Status and Capacity) to show entire field.


    Make a snapshot:
    WIN |
    type SNIPPING | ENTER | New
    Drag the cursor around the area you want to snip.
    File | Save as | select save location and name | Save


    Post the snapshot:
    Post a File or Screenshot in Seven Forums
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  7. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #7

    mike551345 said:
    i need help cleaning up my hard drive because i have nothing on the drive and i cant reduce the amount.
    You need to clean up a drive with nothing on it?

    Can you rephrase that?
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  8. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #8

    I'm stuck on that part as well....trying to figure out what the OP is actually seeing.
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  9. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
       #9

    op was last seen 5 days ago, perhaps he cleaned out his windows folder!!
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  10. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #10

    that would certainly give him a clean slate although a little drastic to throw out the baby with the dirty bath water.
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