[Zojac]

I have a Windows XP with an 80Gig Hard Drive, 75Gigs of which are being used. What is the easiest and clearest way to see what is taking up so much space? I have 3 users on the computer. Once I find out what is taking up the space, I'd like to "archive" the media to an external hard drive then delete it from the C Drive. Does that make sense?

 

[TRS-80 vet]

I have a Windows XP with an 80Gig Hard Drive, 75Gigs of which are being used. What is the easiest and clearest way to see what is taking up so much space? I have 3 users on the computer. Once I find out what is taking up the space, I'd like to "archive" the media to an external hard drive then delete it from the C Drive. Does that make sense?

Shouldn't be a problem.

I know of no shortcuts to find what's fillin' the drive space. You've done the regular stuff - temp internet file deletion, and defraggin', right?

 

[Spider111]

You can also remove some unused programs just go to add/remove programs and sort them by size.

 

[Frank4d]

You can download Spacemonger (version 1.4.0 is free): http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/
The program will show you a graphical representation of what is using the most hard drive space.

 

[Zojac]

I have defragged, and done a "disc cleanup" . I'm going to look at Spacemonger to see if that clearly shows me whats what. What do you think about my idea of getting an external hard drive and archiving my photos and videos there. What kind of drive do you think would be a good one?

 

[guitar]

movies are big i put all on a outside hard drive useing a usb adapter
that way i can run hard drives, dvd burner just by changing the plug
500gig external hard drive on ebay would do it
or do what i do useing older smaller hard drives depends on availability of $$$$$$$$$$$