I need some hand-holding please!

[piroska]

I can't buy any more hard drives at the moment - i am not essential, you know.

You can. Its the shops which have to be essential, not you.

[Bryan]

How much of the F: drive 485 GB is free?

[R.M.]

The problem is that the 'Healthy(Recovery Drive)' is between C Drive and F Drive. Note - they are not separate drives, but partitions of the one drive. I have already reduced the size of F Drive in anticipation of enlarging C Drive (I have done this sort of manoeuvre successfully in the past...). And because of the location of the 'Healthy(Recovery Drive)' I can't enlarge C Drive.

I haven't tried anything today yet - I am biding my time

I checked Ascent for HDD prices, but the information there was that I clearly can't justify buying a new HDD at present. However, I found another spare HDD that I had, and after reformatting it (it had been used with the Freeview drive for my TV) it is now functional on my computer.

[piroska]

I checked Ascent for HDD prices, but the information there was that I clearly can't justify buying a new HDD at present.

You haven't tied hard enough.
See here for instance:

https://www.warehousestationery.co.n...1=Hard%20Drive

HDD essential...

Haven't searched others - but you can.

[Bryan]

Hi R.M. Re: the following comment,

"I checked Ascent for HDD prices, but the information there was that I clearly can't justify buying a new HDD at present. However, I found another spare HDD that I had, and after reformatting it (it had been used with the Freeview drive for my TV) it is now functional on my computer".

is this HDD External or Internal? I recently purchased a 2TB WD External from Noel Leaming for $99. I don't know if the special is still running.

However, can you transfer photo and the like files from C: to the new HDD to make space on C:?

[zqwerty]

Since you are running out of room on C drive just drag and drop all the folders that you wish to F drive then check everything is as you wish, after you are happy delete the transferred folders from C drive.

You seem to be saying that you have reduced F drive, you should re-enlarge it again if so. Don't delete the recovery partition it has important folders and files on it, in case your o/s crashes.

[R.M.]

Ok - some things to think about there. I try to keep my C Drive pretty clean (well, I thought I had) but when I look there are some files I could take off.

[wainuitech]

Ok - some things to think about there. I try to keep my C Drive pretty clean (well, I thought I had) but when I look there are some files I could take off.

Did you run the disk clean-up ( system Files options) like Suggested ?? Its not uncommon if you haven't run it to get 2-5 GB back.

[R.M.]

Did you run the disk clean-up

I did, and only got 110kb. So something, but not much.

[Lawrence]

When you run Disk Cleanup is Windows Updates ticked? you could have a few gig's there