Hard-Drive-Capacity
How can you find out about whether you need additional hard drive space?
If you have an older system (over 3 years old), you may need more Hard-Drive-Capacity. If you have a lot of photos and/or music, you may be low on space.
to check your hard drive space (normally Drive C:)
Do the following:
Click on: Start
Move cursor to, and click on: My Computer
You will then get:
Now: Right Click on Local Disk C:

On this hard drive, you see that we have 43 GB Used space, and 100 GB available. That is okay, as you need at least 20% available. With less than 20% available, your computer will slow down dramatically!
Note: If your hard drive is 40GB or less, you will probably need a new hard drive, as these older drives are very slow! Todays computers typically have 250GB or more, and have SATA Drives, which are faster that the old IDE drives.. |