My Hard Drive is low on disk space.

[AlanAlan]

My hard drive is low on disk space and I just bought a external drive. What can I move to the external drive to free up some space?

[sushisharkjl]

Miscellaneous documents and files. If you've mainly got programs, uninstall some of them as you can't move programs to external drives (I think).

[mcfloxxx]

pictures, movies, 

[Altecice]

Might be worth running a Disk Cleanup + Ccleaner program to get rid of some tempory junk that may have accumulated. 

[mcfloxxx]

Just now, sushisharkjl said:

Miscellaneous documents and files. If you've mainly got programs, uninstall some of them as you can't move programs to external drives (I think).

You can but you shouldn't

[sushisharkjl]

Just now, mcfloxxx said:

You can but you shouldn't

You can move programs? I was under the impression that you could only install them onto the disk; either way it's going to be infuriatingly slow.

[mcfloxxx]

Just now, sushisharkjl said:

You can move programs? I was under the impression that you could only install them onto the disk; either way it's going to be infuriatingly slow.

As far as I know you can

[mikat]

1 minute ago, sushisharkjl said:

You can move programs? I was under the impression that you could only install them onto the disk; either way it's going to be infuriatingly slow.

depends how fast your disk is

[Guest]

Well, your drive speed has already been impacted, so no fixing that, and since deleting falls off a disk only truly deletes them if you write with zeros, you can't really fix much.

 

I recommend moving Documents, Pictures, Videos, and Music.

If programs is the storage killer, uninstall the owns you don't use, and try and find alternatives to the REALLY big ones.