is my new hard drive giving me the right info

last fryday i put in a new hard drive [250] and installed vista .
the fisrt time i check i was down to [238] i thing that is normal .
then i installed microsoft works suite 2006 .
then my epson printer .
then my wire less key board ..
now all i have left is [188] of free space .
my average score is 3.7.
is this normal for a new drive .
thank you

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

Do a Disk cleanup including system files and report back.
Computer>left click.>properties>right click c drive> disk cleanup>include system files.

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

ok here is what i have
downloaded program files [checked]
temporary internet files [checked'
offline webpage files[not checked]
hibernation files cleaner [not checked]
recycle bin [not checked ]
temporary files [not checked]
thumbnails [checked ]
now i couls save [2.04 ]from the one that are checked .
total 18.0 mb
so do you want me to just clean the one that are checked .

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

OK you gave me the information that I needed (amt of space that would be saved) which was not much space. I think that you are doing about right with space. HD space is being used with system restore points etc. You will see more and more space being used by system restore points as the days go by.

How large is your back up drive?

ok.i did do a disk clean up on the one that was checked but still the same amount of free space .

what do you mean by [back up drive ] sorry am not a ginuis in computer .to old for that .66.only been using computer since 2007. no school

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

Go to my computer, left click. Do you see a back up drive (you may not). If you do how large is it?

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

ok left click on cd .
there is .
program files .
users.
windows.
bootsect.bak

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

No, go to the computer icon (on desktop). Left click, you should see all of your drives.

Yours may be reversed try right click.

i don't have a computer icon on my desktop .

i only have one cd drive .
why .do am suppose to have more then one .????????

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

You should. Go to search, type computer, Once you see it, drag to your desktop.

It is a source of information about your computer, that should be handy.

Get the computer on your desktop. It will show your drives (partitions)

You may have a recovery drive and a backup drive. Lets see.

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

well am sorry but this is to advance for me to do .
now i did install a brand new hard drive [500] one month ago on this same computer and instaled window 7 on it .
now on my w-7 drive i did use [67] of space all ready .
so on my new drive with vista on it i use [73 ] all ready .
so i thing it is about right because i di install more stuff on vista then window 7 .
so now if i want to use w-7 all i do is turn my pc off and change the red cable from the vista drive to the window drive .no daul boot for me .cant not setup .
to dum.i will use vista 95 % of the time anyway .
now on a [250] drive that stop working one month ago i only use [82] of space running vista from 2007 till a month ago .
now why that i use [73 ]in a week only with all the same install that i had on my old drive ..
i will let it go for now .
if that don't do i buy a 500 drive that all .70.00

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

I understand that some of this is new for you, everyday, I learn, too.

Try this, it is easy. In search just type computer. When you see the computer just right click and then click on open. You will see all of your partitions (drives) and how much space each is using.

sorry but i don't see any thing of what you are telling me .are using vista or w-7 now

all i see what is poping up is only all the place i went and save

not only that how cant right click on it [computer]when i type it in seach.you have the fastess guy on eart do to that

Re: is my new hard drive gaving me the right info

What I am telling you will work for both Vista and Windows 7. But not that important. It would just would be nice to know where the hard drive space is being used.

yvesj said:

not only that how cant right click on it [computer]when i type it in seach.you have the fastess guy on eart do to that

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here is what i get when i type computer in search

yvesj said:

not only that how cant right click on it [computer]when i type it in seach.you have the fastess guy on eart do to that

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You type computer, then you will see the icon near the top of the search menu, you click on that. You click on the computer with the icon near the top. I see it in your screen shot.

yvesj said:

not only that how cant right click on it [computer]when i type it in seach.you have the fastess guy on eart do to that

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Type the word "computer" and press enter, you get a window like this(attachment). Follow the instructions by Rich46.
You could also have a look at this Tutorial:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html

ho well i get that easy .this is were i get my info from .
i will send it to you but there is nothing on it

brummyfan said:

yvesj said:

not only that how cant right click on it [computer]when i type it in seach.you have the fastess guy on eart do to that

Click to expand...

Type the word "computer" and press enter, you get a window like this(attachment). Follow the instructions by Rich46.
You could also have a look at this Tutorial:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html

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here it is

A drive marketed as 250GB actually has a capacity of 232GiB. This is because they are sold with their decimal capacity rather than their binary capacity.

So let's start with 232GiB. Vista itself will take up 15GiB, leaving 217GiB. By default, a paging (or swap) file and a hibernation file are automatically created, the size of each of those is equivalent to the amount of memory in your system. You haven't stated the amount of memory you have, so I am going to say 2GiB. This takes the total down to 213GiB. A full installation of Works 2006 is 3GiB. Total now 210GiB. By default, System Restore occupies 10% of your HDD capacity, so this accounts for 23GiB. The new total is now 187GiB. System drivers that are not built-in to Vista can account for another 1GiB. This leaves a total of 186GiB.

If you don't use hibernation, you can turn off that feature, saving 2GiB. New total now 188GiB.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/165508-hibernation-enable-disable.html

You can also reduce the amount of space allocated to System Restore, or even turn it off altogether. Potential saving: upto 23 GiB. If you disable System Restore, your new total will be 211GiB. I recommend that you allocate 5% to this (12GiB). With this allocation, your new total will be 199GiB.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html