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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in
it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
I did not mean to post this to the Windows 98 group.
"Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
I did not mean to post this to the Windows 98 group.
"Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
Bible John,
I believe that your least expensive solution would be to buy an extra internal hard drive, install it as a "slave" and use it for your brother's storage space. I've purchased a 160 gig. for $35 and a 120 gig. for $30 within the last year. Just watch for sales on them. You will have to open your computer case to install it, but it's not difficult to do. If you do that, you can just copy and paste his existing collection to the "slave" drive and then delete it from your existing drive. Milt "Bible John" wrote: I did not mean to post this to the Windows 98 group. "Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
Bible John,
I believe that your least expensive solution would be to buy an extra internal hard drive, install it as a "slave" and use it for your brother's storage space. I've purchased a 160 gig. for $35 and a 120 gig. for $30 within the last year. Just watch for sales on them. You will have to open your computer case to install it, but it's not difficult to do. If you do that, you can just copy and paste his existing collection to the "slave" drive and then delete it from your existing drive. Milt "Bible John" wrote: I did not mean to post this to the Windows 98 group. "Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
If he bought himself a video Ipod he can afford an external drive
"Bible John" wrote in message ... I did not mean to post this to the Windows 98 group. "Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
If he bought himself a video Ipod he can afford an external drive
"Bible John" wrote in message ... I did not mean to post this to the Windows 98 group. "Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
"Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- Windows initially needs approx 2 GB for installation and operation. It doesn't need 3 - 4 GB free at all times. You say you still have 14.6 GB of free space. That is a lot of space left. As for trying to free up space, yes there are places to look but generally the space you reclaim is minimal. Keep pressing him to get the backup device. -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
"Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- Windows initially needs approx 2 GB for installation and operation. It doesn't need 3 - 4 GB free at all times. You say you still have 14.6 GB of free space. That is a lot of space left. As for trying to free up space, yes there are places to look but generally the space you reclaim is minimal. Keep pressing him to get the backup device. -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp |
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How to restore valuable Hard Drive Space
Good idea I forgot that this computer holds a extra drive bay.
In article , Milt wrote: Bible John, I believe that your least expensive solution would be to buy an extra internal hard drive, install it as a "slave" and use it for your brother's storage space. I've purchased a 160 gig. for $35 and a 120 gig. for $30 within the last year. Just watch for sales on them. You will have to open your computer case to install it, but it's not difficult to do. If you do that, you can just copy and paste his existing collection to the "slave" drive and then delete it from your existing drive. Milt "Bible John" wrote: I did not mean to post this to the Windows 98 group. "Bible John" wrote in message ... Our computer is from late 1994 so its only got a dinky 80GB Hard Drive in it. My brother recently bought himself one of those video iPods and has been getting carried away at Downloading movies. He has brought the remaining Hard Drive space down to 14.6GB's. I told him that he need to either buy himself an external hard drive and use that for his iPod, or he needs to pay for another hard drive, and pay for the software to run the transfer and the external hard drive enclosure, or he needs to pay to have Best Buy or whoever do the transfer, and they probably wont do it, considering that we have software on our drive, and we don't have all the install discs for the software on the drive as some where lost. I told my brother that I would download HandBrake (which would allow him to convert DVD's to the iPod) but perhaps I should not have said that, as he'd get really carried away at converting movies, hogging the DSL bandwidth (DSL was never designed for movie streaming or downloading) and hogging the CPU converting those movies. I think that Windows XP needs at least 4GB's free to run operably, but then again it may be 3GB's. We have USB and Firewire on this machine, and I really think that the cheapest method would be for him to buy an external drive and transfer his iTunes library to it. But he probably does not want to do that. So in the meantime what can I do to save disk space? I already emptied the recycle bin, but there has to be other ways to free valuable disk space. Thanks.. John -- The Bible calls sinners to Repentance (LK 5:32) and God's people to Holiness (Rom 12:2). www.cerm.info Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and Director -- Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. CERM-Church Education Resource Ministries http://www.cerm.info |
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