GoldenbanjoDJ
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Hey. I've recently upgraded to an SSD as a boot drive and I still have all my old files on an HDD so they are sitting side by side in My Computer. The SSD is called c: and the HDD is called f:
I want to free up space on the HDD and get rid of basically everything except a few files.
I started by going to add or remove programs to uninstall some of the crap... but the only programs it showed were the ones on my c:
Then I tried deleting individual files and then deleting them from the recycle bin, but it doesn't actually look like my free space is going up.
Then I tried disk cleanup for the f: but all it is doing is the recycle bin.
2 questions basically:
1) does deleting a file simply by clicking it and pressing 'delete' actually free up disk space?
2) if not, what will work?
I have roughly 300GB that I'd like to be able to reclaim.
Cheers fellas
Dan
I want to free up space on the HDD and get rid of basically everything except a few files.
I started by going to add or remove programs to uninstall some of the crap... but the only programs it showed were the ones on my c:
Then I tried deleting individual files and then deleting them from the recycle bin, but it doesn't actually look like my free space is going up.
Then I tried disk cleanup for the f: but all it is doing is the recycle bin.
2 questions basically:
1) does deleting a file simply by clicking it and pressing 'delete' actually free up disk space?
2) if not, what will work?
I have roughly 300GB that I'd like to be able to reclaim.
Cheers fellas
Dan