Question I need more space, what could I do...?

[sc0p3]

Hello everyone! I'll make this as direct as possible: I really need space in my PC.

https://imgur.com/a/0ty8Z7G

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This is what I have right now and I'm struggling so bad, especially with my C: drive, always having to delete whatever I can just to scrape off a GB, I even moved the temp folder from C: to D: and I'm at a loss.

My question here is, can I mount another 1TB HDD without having to reinstall Windows or anything? There's a catch though, I have one HDD just laying in my drawer from ~3 years ago and it still has Windows on it, C: and D:. I'd love to use that and not spend any money, is it possible to install it without deleting any files from it? I wanna see what I had on there from a couple years ago and if I recall correctly I had some important stuff.

Thank you in advance to everyone!

 

[Colif]

120gb ssd? I wouldn't run windows off a 120, it eats half the space. You really should save up and buy 1 big ssd to replace all of them.

You can clone the install onto a larger drive but I wouldn't choose a hdd as recipient of a clone from an ssd.

There's a catch though, I have one HDD just laying in my drawer from ~3 years ago and it still has Windows on it, C: and D:.

was the windows install from this PC? If so, it might work... would need windows updates. But if its another PC you might get errors and all sorts of strange things. It might work but its not guaranteed.

Or do you just want to use it as extra space? If so, it could help. Just need to stop the PC trying to boot from it.

 

[JarlBSoD]

Realy impossible for us to say what you should do since we don't have acces to your HD and can't look at what is on it. Download treesize and run it as admin and see what is taking up your space and start from there and as Colif said, that drive is realy small for an OS drive even though it technically fulfills the requirements to run windows it leves hardly any room for anything else.

 

[mjs warlord]

My main drive is a kingston 480 gb ssd that i put windows on and things that you cant choose another location for.

My second drive is a 900 gb that i put all my games on and after 8 years use and the fact that its not unusual for games now to be 100gb i noticed i only had around 11ogb left so i added this.

Amazon.co.uk

It is 2tb and as you can see from the link it is an external one.
I currently have 34 games on it and even though some games say you are not supposed to put games on an external ssd i have not had any problems.

Note ..... When you have an external ssd you need to go to steams tabs and look for add a drive and on epic and other clients you will be asked where you want to download something.