Hard drive full????

Discussion in 'Storage' started by georgia23, Jan 3, 2015.

  1. georgia23

    georgia23

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    My laptop has a 28GB hard drive and it is full somehow (800MB free) even though I only have 2-3GB of data/documents/media etc. on it when I check in settings and stuff, also it says 1.89GB RAM free? What does this mean?
    Thanks....
     
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    Brian8gbSSDLinux

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    Strange that you only have a 28Gb Had drive... is this a mini Notebook with , say, a 9 inch screen or is it a Google Chrome book type Laptop? and are you running Windows, Android or say, Linpus Linux?

    The reason why I ask is because each and every one of these systems will require different ways of finding more space.

    As ans example... if you have a 32Gb SSD running Windows; around 15Gb will be taken up by the Operating system and its Files. There is a good write up of how to clear out clutter on How to Geek... click the link below (when online) to see how they do it...
    http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/

    IF none of what you see in the pictures on that site fit in with what YOU see on YOUR laptop it could be that you have a Chrome book - in which case, please let us know what the label UNDER your laptop says...
     
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    Brian8gbSSDLinux

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    Hmmm Time waster??? Is this the same Laptop you 'dropped and broke the touchscreen'? reported by you, 4 minutes ago?
     
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    Time waster?
    Probably yes but I thought that you were supposed to ask questions in the appropriate category, and my hard drive has been weirdly full for a while before that happened.
    It is a notebook laptop yes 10" screen I think (ASUS transformer book T100) and it is only just over a year old, running Windows 8.1.
    Those pictures on the link look like my laptop so I will try that...
    Thanks
     
    georgia23, Jan 3, 2015
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