How to free up disk space? Hard drive recovery service

If there are no enough free space on your hard drive, your computer will have a very slow running speed. The boot time will get longer. More serious is that it’s difficult for you to run programs, open files. All the activities on computer will be greatly affected.Therefore, it’s necessary to free up your disk space.

How to free up disk space on hard drive?

Generally, free up disk space refers to free the system partition. You can check the current the free space on your hard drive partition to know if it has run out of memory. Even if there are still enough free space on your hard drive, it is also helpful to free up your disk space so that to improve your computer’s performance.

1. Use system built-in tool Disk Cleanup

Input Disk cleanup in the Run box. Press enter to open it. In the drop-down menu, choose partition C. After it has worked out the space you can free up, you will see the disk cleanup window. Then you can check or uncheck the box to determine which files you need to delete.

Use Disk cleanup to free drive C　

2. Use a disk space analysis tool

There many free disk space analysis program can help you to know how much your programs have occupied your space. You can find large sized files, you can delete them if they are not frequently used. This tool can also help you to find the hidden files and downloaded files. With this tool, you can easily find all the files you do not need.

3. Clean temporary files and duplicated files

You can clean the temporary files like browsing history, download files, cache, cookies. You may have many duplicate files on your computer. If you do not know their location, you can use the professional tools to find the duplicate files.

4. Uninstall unnecessary programs

Uninstall all the unnecessary programs do great help to free up your hard drive and speed up your computer. In Windows 7, you can click control panel>programs> programs and feature>Install programs. And you also can uninstall the programs in a security software.

5. Compress your files

You can compress your files to save the space. But you cannot compress system files or program files. You can compress the files you do not frequently use for it takes you longer time to open the compressed files.

6. Back up some of your data to online storage or external hard drive

If there are too many files on your computer and you can not delete them for they are still useful. In that case, you can back up them to the online backup account or an external hard drive. Today’s external hard drive have a larger storage space than the internal hard drive.

If you have data loss on computer, you should try to restore from the backups. If you have no backup, please try to use the Data recovery software as soon as possible.

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