![]() ![]() As I said, my laptop’s internal hard drive is 320GB (if I calculate the sizes of three partitions shown in Computer, it's 297.8GB in total). As for Apple devices, I have My laptop ports are USB2) However.after reading all the helpful info from all of you, I still don't understand something. ![]() Yes, windows update files have been mentioned and they are indeed a major culprit. Like Paul I've just checked the hibernation file (I didn't know there were hidden OS files and how to show them until now.I'm learning a LOT in the last 24hrs) and it's about 6GB. I hope it will help others who are as ignorant as I was. Anyway, thank you all so much for helping me. I've never recorded anything directly into an external drive, so I don't know if it's going to work as expected, though. So I'll probably get another reasonably-priced one and use these two for backup purpose, and format the high-priced one to use as a second drive, then I'll be able to delete the D and E partitions and use the whole 320GB (smaller than that in reality) for C drive. After all, that's the recommended setup, isn't it? I currently use two external drives for backup pupose (one to keep in my house and the other to keep elsewhere), one of which is a reasonably-priced, compact HDD. However, I'm starting to think of using an external hard drive for everything other than the OS and applications. There were nearly 10 files so I deleted most of them. ![]() CCleaner taught me the major culprit was system restore files. Now my C partition's free space, which was only 1.5GB yesterday, is 10.6GB. So I used CCleaner and it helped me a lot. ![]()
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