Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

free up hdd space??

  • 24-06-2009 11:38pm
    #1
    ryanch09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭


    hey guys i have a 40gb hard drive with world of warcraft, flight simulator x and some japanese game that takes up 1gb. these three games use up most the drive. about 1-3 gigs is used by norton 360, printer software, itunes and windows programs. at the moment i only have 100mb free space. any way i can free up space without uninstalling these programs???


Comments

  • #2
    magicianz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭magicianz


    Apart from running a defrag i dont think that there is much you can do apart from buying an external HDD.


  • #3
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    magicianz wrote: »
    Apart from running a defrag i dont think that there is much you can do apart from buying an external HDD.

    you can run CCleaner (deletes at least half a gig every time i run it), and do a disk cleanup in windows (it's under programs -> accessories -> system tools).

    btw, i can't see how Norton 360 should be taking up 2-3GB. Have you old backups stored you don't need?


  • #4
    ryanch09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭ryanch09


    not sur bout the backups. how muc would an external hdd be? or even a second internal one would be good which evers cheapest


  • #5
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,516 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    you can buy an external with 1TB for about 80 quid now. that'd be my investment


  • #6
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    ryanch09 wrote: »
    not sur bout the backups. how muc would an external hdd be? or even a second internal one would be good which evers cheapest

    you can get a 1TB external for about €90 online.

    Are we talking laptop or desktop? laptop you can get 250GB for ~€60 (maybe slightly more with postage). Desktop, you can get 500GB for about the same price. However they are SATA, you may have IDE (slightly older type of drive). If that's the case i've no idea on prices. you would need to check your manual what type of drives you can add.

    Btw, an external would only be good for files, photos, music, videos. You wouldn't want to install a game on them, the read/write time would be unplayable.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Drakar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Drakar


    Defrag shouldn't affect the amount of free hdd space I'd imagine.

    If you've had World of Warcraft for a long time, it might be worth looking in the directory, it actually keeps all the patch files it downloads (so you could reapply them to a fresh installation later). You could remove those to cut the space considerably.

    You might find something like this useful too to graph your hdd usage:
    http://www.hdgraph.com/


Advertisement