Tips to free up your hard drive space best hard drive recovery software

We usually have the problem that our computers are running slower ans slower. And some times the system will prompt that drive C is out of space and you are suggested to free up your hard drive.

How to free up the hard drive space on Windows?

1.The first method, use the system built-in Disk Freeup to free up your hard drive partitions.

Learn how to use the Disk Freeup tools in Windows:

2.The second method, extend your partition C

Generally, it is always the partition C which need to be freed up. If your partition C has not enough space, you should extend the partition C by re-partitioning your hard drive. You can use a partition tool or use the windows to partitioning the hard drive. But notice to backup all the data you need to re-partition, or you will suffer a data loss.

3.The third method, uninstall some applications.

You’d better choose to save downloaded files and application to other partitions except partition. Or your computer will have a bad performance.

Uninstall some unused applications helps to free up the hard drive. You can check how much space all these applications have occupied.

Click control panel—programs—programs and features to come to the Uninstall  or change a program window. Then you will see all the detailed information about the programs, publisher, installed data, versions and size of some personal files. You can click the program and then click the Uninstall button to remove them.

4.The fourth method, use disk analysis tools to know the exact space of each programs used.

The control panel doesn't show the space of programs. You should use a disk analysis programs.

Use a professional disk analysis program to scan your hard drive, it will shows you all the files are using your hard drive space. If the some unnecessary programs occupies you a large amount of space, you can uninstall them to free up the space.

5.The fifth method, delete the temporary files

As the Disk cleanup tools cannot delete the temporary files, such as browser caches, you need to clean the temporary files by manual. You can use the browser built- in option to empty the temporary data like cache, history, download, cookies and so on; or you can use a cleaner tool to clean them with one button.

6.The sixth method, delete the same files

You may have some duplicated files on your hard drive and have never delete the copied one. The duplicated files with large size will use up your space. In that case, you need to delete the duplicated copies to free up the space.

How to recover files from hard drive?

If you have lost your files on your hard drive from accident deletion or other causes, you can use data recovery software to recover them. As long as they  are not overwritten by new data, data recovery software can easily retrieve them back.

How does the data recovery software works?