3 HDD & don't know what to do

hoosieradvisor · May 30, 2006

I have:

Two internal HDD:
C: = 80 GB (85% full!!!!) (Win XP Professional)
F: = 60 GB (old HDD from previous computer) (Windows XP Home)

One external HDD:
H: = 80 GB

My C: drive is almost full and I don't know why! I have all pics and songs on F:

C:\My Documents is about 45 GB.

Spyware is NOT the problem. I use Spyware Doctor, Spybot, Ad-Aware SE, and Norton Antivirus. (At least I'm 95% sure that spyware isn't a problem.)

I "think" the space is taken up by programs.

How can I figure out what is taking up so much space on C:? When I open MY COMPUTER the "size column" doesn't tell me the size.

I do know this: In MY DOCUMENTS the largest app listed is 272,391 KB and is called WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU. Sounds like it's related to SP2 and or updates.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

Major Attitude · May 30, 2006

Try CCleaner to clear up some extra space. 80 gigs by todays standards is a small drive, maybe a backup drive at best, not to mention 60 gigs. These are drives that might have been find for Windows 98 or ME, but not with XP and the large programs, movies, etc of today. In your situation, you might keep the 80 gig as a backup, use the 60 gig as a bookmark end and get a 250 gig or so as your main. Like ram, theres only one real solution for this problem, and thats bigger hardware.

http://majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_d4191.html

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3 HDD & don't know what to do

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