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
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