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.

 

[ZedClampet]

I really think the C: drive is a lost cause and would replace it with a larger one. I didn't even know they made SSDs that small.

 

[mjs warlord]

I really think the C: drive is a lost cause and would replace it with a larger one. I didn't even know they made SSDs that small.

Hi Zed i thought you was answering me lol .... i zoomed in on c drive at his screenshot ... 110gb .... unless he built the pc himself i wonder what manufacturer put such a small one as main drive.

My first pc in 2003 had a 60gb hdd and i remember my boss saying why do you want one that big , you would not get 1 decent game on that now.

 

[Colif]

Its an 120gb ssd, that is what is left over once its formatted. I have seen the amount before.
Other two are 500gb drives.

They only small now, 120 was big at one stage... about 14 years or so ago when SSD 1st showed up
They have 60gb ssd as well but I wouldn't use it now - mainly as they no longer made so could be an old drive. And slow.
I used to have windows on a 250gb ssd and it was cramped enough.

laptop makers used to use small drives as cache drives to make the hdd faster. Used an Intel Rapid Storage Technology feature that hid the drive from the OS and only used it for files that are used all the time. People would reformat drive and suddenly discover laptop has two drives in it. And then the windows installer would put windows on the 60gb drive and then they would come to us and ask for help

I wouldn't go below 1tb now for boot drive as you have enough space for extras.
I had a 60gb hdd in the early 2000's myself. Might have been in my IBM.

I tend to not use space

I used to see people with them a lot on Tom's Hardware, its why I said it was too small... thats my stock answer.

 

[mjs warlord]

Its an 120gb ssd, that is what is left over once its formatted. I have seen the amount before.
Other two are 500gb drives.

They only small now, 120 was big at one stage... about 14 years or so ago when SSD 1st showed up
They have 60gb ssd as well but I wouldn't use it now - mainly as they no longer made so could be an old drive. And slow.
I used to have windows on a 250gb ssd and it was cramped enough.

laptop makers used to use small drives as cache drives to make the hdd faster. Used an Intel Rapid Storage Technology feature that hid the drive from the OS and only used it for files that are used all the time. People would reformat drive and suddenly discover laptop has two drives in it. And then the windows installer would put windows on the 60gb drive and then they would come to us and ask for help

I wouldn't go below 1tb now for boot drive as you have enough space for extras.
I had a 60gb hdd in the early 2000's myself. Might have been in my IBM.

I tend to not use space

I used to see people with them a lot on Tom's Hardware, its why I said it was too small... thats my stock answer.

Hello again Colif ... my 450gb c drive shows 445 usable , my 900gb shows 894 usable and my 2tb external shows 1.81 tb usable. They are all ssd. I may be wrong but 20 odd years ago when i got into pc's i asked why the 60gb drive did not show 60gb usable and i was told that widows is not good at number crunching. As you know 1024mb = 1 gb but windows can only work in units of 10,100,1000 etc so for every gb you loose 24mb . ?????
Maybe it was bs i dont know. Before i used the 2tb i looked to see if their was any back up software etc on it and i noticed it showed only 1.81tb usable.

As you can see in the op's screenshot his c drive is in the red but not full. It goes into the red at a certain point to stop you from putting anything else on because widows needs some empty space to shuffle files and folders around so no matter the size of a drive you will never be allowed to fill it up ..... but i am sure you know that ....... some people dont know that