what is minimum space needed on a hard drive?
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admin 2 May, 2010
My hard drive is filling up. i\’ve a 3gigahertz fijitsu lifebook with 2 gig of ram and an 80 gig hard drive. I defrag regulalrly. what is the smallest empty space I need to leave on the harddrive? Can I fill it up until there is only 5 gig left?
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you really should move some files to disk then you will have more space on your drive
You can fill your hard drive up right to the brim and it’d still function! You have 2 gigs of ram so your computer won’t need tons of spare hard disk space for virtual memory either.
Remember that years ago, the first laptops shipped with much less than 1 gig of space in total!! they worked just fine
Generally, you should not use more than 75% of your hard drive space. Windows will often use the hard drive as a “scratch pad” of sorts for memory, and many applications do the same. The more full the drive is, the longer it will take for it to find empty space to use. Filling the drive up also makes it fragment faster, and if it’s very full with large files it may fragment to a point that it can’t defragment, causing massive slowdowns (I have a 40 gig drive that’s 90% full, and I am experiencing this. I can’t delete anything though
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I agree with Aggy. Just delete things on your hard drive, stuff that you know that you dont use anymore. But be careful not to delete cookies or any other important info that your computer runs on. Just go to “My Computer” and start deleting. And no, you dont want to use it all up, your compuer will lag then you’ll have to delete. Just leave some space.
Yes, 5 gigs of free space is plenty for the day to day operations of XP. But you really should be backing some of that stuff off there. Have you considered getting a USB hard drive? I picked one up for $70 the other day, and it is 250 GB. A lot easier than changing the internal drive in a laptop.
-Dio
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I think these days… with the big programs we run… you need 20 gig of free space.
But it depends what you do with your computer. You obviously don’t need 20 gig to type a letter in Word.
Windows is using 1 gig for its page file memory.
That would leave you with 4 gig before you do anything.
Programs create temporary files while they run. You never see them because they are deleted when you close the program.
For instance… if you scan a picture the size of a page A4… it takes 80Mb of disk space.
Delete the stuff that u won’t need permantly or backup all yo data somewhere else either on flash drives,cdsetc