does deleting 200 GB of data from my hdd leave a lot of garbage in my OS and slow down windows 10 ?

[maria2244]

I have windows 10 installed on my ssd

also I have 500 GB hdd

which I want to delete 200 GB from it

by right click then empty recycle bin

 

will that leave garbage files in my OS -slow the OS  or cause unnecessary write on my ssd ?

[mikat]

I have windows 10 installed on my ssd

also I have 500 GB hdd

which I want to delete 200 GB from it

by right click then empty recycle bin

 

will that leave garbage files in my OS -slow the OS  or cause unnecessary write on my ssd ?

you should empty your garbage bin and run ccleaner

https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

[Atmos]

Defragging your harddrive might help if you notice it is running slow, as well as running a registry cleaning application to remove now defunct entries in your registry.

 

ccleaner does a good job of that, as @mikat stated, but it can be a bit expensive if you want to get all the options on the pro ver.

[maria2244]

Defragging your harddrive might help if you notice it is running slow, as well as running a registry cleaning application to remove now defunct entries in your registry.

 

ccleaner does a good job of that, as @mikat stated, but it can be a bit expensive if you want to get all the options on the pro ver.

but my OS is not on my hdd (that I want to delete 200 GB from it )

the OS on my SSD

so why I need to clean registry and run ccleaner after delete 200 GB from my hdd ?

thank you

[TOMPPIX]

You're not gonna see any slow down because your os is installed on your ssd.

[Guest]

don't clean the registery but always defrag the hard drive. (NOT THE SSD)

 

Deleting 200GB won't make things faster.

[vorticalbox]

don't clean the registery but always defrag the hard drive. (NOT THE SSD)

 

Deleting 200GB won't make things faster.

it might mate it faster if the HD is up at 90%, thought that won't effect the OS (unless the page file is there) just loading from the HD.

[OneShotMan]

In Windows, you can configure drives to delete things differently. I would suggest setting your HDD to delete directly without the use of the "Recycle Bin" feature. And then I would suggest defragging the HDD. If the 200GB is all the data on the HDD, I would defrag and then reformat.

[maria2244]

so i can safetly format the HDD instead of deleting the files ? no hard to the OS ?

[Atmos]

but my OS is not on my hdd (that I want to delete 200 GB from it )

the OS on my SSD

so why I need to clean registry and run ccleaner after delete 200 GB from my hdd ?

thank you

 

Deleting items from a hard drive merely removes the items index from your os. The stuff is still there on the harddrive, but the os cannot see it, so it just writes over it. That's how programs that can retrieve deleted data work, they simply look at all data on the disk, instead of what the Os's "index" tells it what is there.

 

Anyway, when you delete items, 99% of the time if it was a program, then it will still have entries in your registry, that can be problematic, since the program no longer exists. Running a program like ccleaner, to remove broken references in your registry can help when an os is being particularly tricky or slow, or starts throwing errors.

 

 

 

so i can safetly format the HDD instead of deleting the files ? no hard to the OS ?

 

Reformatting a drive will delete any files on it.

Your OS will work fine as long as its not on that drive that you're reformatting. If your os is installed on the drive you reformat then obviously, it will be removed.

[EmeraldKiwi]

I have windows 10 installed on my ssd

also I have 500 GB hdd

which I want to delete 200 GB from it

by right click then empty recycle bin

will that leave garbage files in my OS -slow the OS or cause unnecessary write on my ssd ?

Once you delete it, run CCleaner. Once you do that, before doing anything else, defragment your drive. 200GB of space makes for a huge gap and leaves a ton of space for fragmentation to occur.

EDIT:

As far as your SSD goes, don't worry about unnecessary reads/writes. The life of your drive will probably last way longer than expected even if you defrag an SSD (which is wasteful I know). I would just suggest not worrying about the lifespan. As long as you have a backup of some stuff you're probably fine.