I have a 20gb drive and I have deleted files and programs to free up space on the drive.  But I'm not seeing the hard drive size decreasing.
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After you delete something to your hard drive especially programs the SOP is to reboot or restart your computer. this is because the computer doesn't automatically adopt to the new environment or should i to the new configuration of the your pc.
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Not recommended.  100 mB is not alot of space anyway.  Either buy another hard disk for $59 on the Internet (you can get 80 mB for that...) or free up space on your hard disk by using CCleaner (ccleaner.com) or TuneUp Utilities (Tune-Up.com).  Also try Registry Mechanic by PC Tools.\n\nAll of these programs can clean lots of stuff off your HD.
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the blue ones ahve been compressed t save space. It is ok, if you use them it automatically expands them, if you go to copy them to another drive or back up though, you need to expand them first
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The system has to take up some room. I think it doesn't count the drive space used by the system programs and libraries. The amount it gives you is the amount you're free to work with. Plus, you probably won't be using all of that up anytime soon anyway.
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http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/\n\nWindirstat if you have the space then download it and run it on your drive c.  It will show you where the biggest files are and exactly what is taking up how much space in a nice little picture form!\n\nNormally youll see like old files you forgot about and can delete those I freed up like 20gigs myself.
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control panel-performance and maintenance-administrative tools-computer management-disc management. Here if you have xp, you can see the actual size of hard drive and there are tools there that might help you solve your problem.
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As far as Windows is concerned its gone for ever.\n\nThe data still remains on your harddrive after permanent delete. However, Windows deletes it from the harddrive directory and marks that space as 'empty'. So in future windows will use it to write new files (in that case it is permanently gone).\n\nIf no files ever get written on it; certain crude hard drive utilities can still recover that data.\n\nThe best way to remove data PERMANENTLY INDEED is to overwrite the full drive with something like multiple copies of a word document / music file until the drive gets full.
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You don't want to remove a file simply because it's contiguous, or "all-together".\nRun a defragment utility to reallocate the used space on your hard drive.  That will also rearrange the fragmented files so they will become contiguous.  Instead of being scattered around in bits and pieces across the drive they're now all-together.
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first run disc cleanup< rightclick localdisk>,then prss disc clean,next go to run>%temp% and press ok this will take you to your temporary folder,which can hold up to 3to 4 gb of temp data,just go to edit>select all then delete selected items,otherwise look on ebay for 20gb drives which pop up for round about £10 now and again\n         you should be better getting a second drive than worrying about space all the time,i wish i lived near by as i have 3 or 4 spare 20gb hard drives,you could have had one\n    good luck
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The .torrent file is small.  What you need to do is clear ACTUAL space.  You need to either install a new hard drive, or delete the large files you've been downloading.  The .torrent files aren't what you need to delete, it's the files that you download from bit torrent that you do need to delete (they take up the most space)
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in windows explorer, right click on the C: drive <properties> see how much diskspace is left, do disk cleanup.  If that doesn't free up space use explorer to find out files you no longer need.  You might also go to control panel and delete programs you no longer need.
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Ok, disk-clean up shows up everytime your hard-disk is almost full (say 95~99% full). It's not a bad idea to run disk clean up once maybe, but if it bothers you all the time here's what you can do:\n\n1. Open My Computer and right click on the disk/partiton that is almost full (the one that's annoying you).\n2. Click on "Properties" from the context menu that pops up.\n3. Click on the "Tools" tab.\n4. Uncheck the box that reads "Run Disk Cleanup Automatically when the space on this drive is low" (or something similar).\n5. Click OK \n\nAnd you're done!\n\nAlternatively, try moving files & folders from this drive (partition) to some other drive (partition) or deleting unnecessary files. A full or almost full hard-disk will kill your PC's performance.
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Reformatting the drive will get rid of all the garbage in your system.  You have the remnants of files that have been deleted, a pile of junk in your Windows temp file plus a load of other junk floting around.\n\nRather than formatting your drive, download Window Washer from Limewire,com - this will clean all the sheit off the drive and make the maximum amount space available to you.
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you either have one hard drive with two partitions or two hard drives..  when you boot your system it will tell you but you can (assuming you have XP) click on start -> all programs -> accesories -> system tools --> system info.\n\nHere go to components -> storage -> drives\n\nThis will break out your drive info - you are interested in Local fixed disks.  It details size, space used/unused of each fixed partition.\n\nYou can also go to the control panel -> admin tools -> computer management -> storage -> disk management .  Here it will show you the disk layout and partitions.  If disk 0 has morethan one drive letter defined to the right of it then you have those partitions on a single hard drive (disk 0 is a single physical drive which can have 1, 2, 3... partions defined as C, D, E).
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You can go to"My Computer". After that go to "Local Disk:C" And after that, there will be like a circle graph. The purple indicates free space and the blue indicates used space.
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The problem is the rest of your drive isn't allocated yet.\n\nYou have to understand one thing about a hard drive. Windows often leads to this confusion. Here it is....\n\nC: doesn't actually refer to a physical hard drive. It refers to the first partition on the first hard drive. You must create a new partition on the drive which will likely use the drive letter D: unless it's already in use.\n\nBy creating the new partition you allocate the rest of the space on the hard drive. You'll need to pick a file system. You should use NTFS.\n\nRead this for instructions on how to partition your drive.
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Right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop.\n\nSelect "Manage"\n\nOn the left side of that window, under "Storage" there's a Disk Management icon...click on it.  \n\nDo you see your 80GB drive?  Maybe it doesn't have a drive letter assigned?