Can I increase my hard-drive space any other way than by replacing it? Can I use an external drive??
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You can add a second hard drive inside your computer, or you can use an external drive, yes.\n\nYou can also compress your harddrive, although this reduces performance, and I don't recommend it.  Personally I'd invest in another hard drive to add to the computer, you can pick a cheap one up on the internet, and it isn't hard to install.  http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/install-hard-drive.htm\nhttp://www.topweb.co.uk/1st/jimupgradehdd.htm\n\nAlso clear as much of as you don't need, uninstall any programs you don't use, any copies of files, etc.  Clear history, and all temporary internet files, cookies, some times theres a lot of that. Empty your recyle bin after. Run diskcleanup. \n\nIf you have a lot of video or music files, consider getting a cd/dvd burner (if you don't have one already) and put large files on cd's.
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If u use windows tools, u'll loose all ur data.\nSo, download any 3_r party partition software.\nI use Acronis Disk Director.\nU'll easily change drive sizes using ADDS.\nit's tried-and-true software.
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YOU CAN UPGRADE IT BY ATTACHING ANOTHER 40 GB HD.\n\n\nTHATS VERY EASY AND CAN FIX IT YOURSELF.
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Are you sure you want to erace your entire hard drive?\nSUGGESTION I\n1. Go to My Computer.\n2. Right-Click on the drive that you want to delete.\n3. Click Format.\n4. Check Quick Format.\n5. Click Start.\nI dont think this will work so do this\nSUGGESTION II\n1. Buy a Hard Drive \n2. Replace them
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You can purchase a reliable and fully-featured hard disk drive manager for example Disk Director by Acronis. You'll be able to add some space to the C: partition easily using Disk Director.
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You'll need a disk management program that is capable of repartitioning the drive on-the-fly. PartitionMagic from Symantec is one such product, but there are many others.
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Find My Computer. You'll see Drive C for your computer's hard drive, Drive D for the DVD rom (or whatever your system has)...\n\n... anyways look for a new drive letter. Look for one with ~about~ 256MB of free space. Voila that's the new drive.\n\n(NOTE: if you have the USB drive plugged in, and don't see it on the My Computer drive list... then you may need to add a driver for it).\n\nNow that you have the drive letter... open it. Then you can simply DRAG files from your computer .. onto this drive (up to 256MB) and that's it.\n\nRemember its best to use the Safely Remove Hardware icon to RELEASE the USB drive before pulling it off the laptop.\n\nI hope this helped.
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get a new computer\n\nor\n\nreplace your disk drive.
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goto settings\n\nadministrative tools\n\ncomputer management\n\ndisk management under storage then select ur drive right clik select change drive letter and follow instructions
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If you don't wish to reformat your drive, you could defragment your computer. Also if your operating system support system restore, clear the restore point will also help the gain back some memory space. To do that, right click on My Computer, then click on Properties. Then go to the tab System restore. Check the box Turn off system restore on all drive. Click apply then restart your computer. By doing this it will clear away all the system restore point. Next we can configure the computer to set a limited space for the system restore point. Go through the same step where you come to the tab System restore, uncheck the box you have just check. Then click setting beside the drive (i.e. C) then drag the bar to allocate the amount of space for system restore point. Click apply.\nHope this help.:)
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maybe its time for a new computer or more space/memory
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If you don't have another operating system installed in the second partition, then the task is quite easy; you simply delete the partition you don't need and the space will be added to the remaining partition as 'free space'\n\nThe other option is to use free partitioning software, such as Acronis: I believe you can use the free trial evaluation for from the following link\n\nhttp://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
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You can't increase the capacity of whole disk but if you want to add some space to C: drive you may purchase Acronis Disk Director. This software will merge your partitions without data loss.\nIn case you have only C: drive and some unallocated space you can recover this space using an utility of disk Director and then add it directly to C: partition.  Here is a link for you:\nhttp://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
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I think so.  Get a bigger Hard Drive first.  Don't get the wrong idea you can do it but you can do a better job with a larger HD.
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files can only be thoroughly deleted if you overwrite them with software but that takes up even more space. the space is very little though that deleted files take.  a new hard drive isn't very expensive so you could just get one.
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reformat your hard drive, or just get a new, larger hard drive (the second is the best)\n\nyou can do a web search on line on how to do this if you don't know, print off all the instructions before you start to work though lol and know you will loose all the info on your current drive so if you have any photos or documents or anything you want to save be sure to back them up on a floppy or CD or something.
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You would have to get some new hardware, which could be very costly.  A cheaper way would be to get a Flash drive.  I use mine for files I don't access very often so I don't always carry it.