If you've owned your computer for a while, chances are, you don't have nearly as much free space on your hard drive as you once did. Determining what is using this space would normally be a very time consuming task if it weren't for a little utility called WinDirStat.
WinDirStat will scan your computer's hard drive and display usage information in an easy to understand graphical tree-map. If you select a Directory in the explorer window (top half of WinDirStat), a white outline will appear in the tree map, outlining the files within this directory. If you click on a box in the tree map, WinDirStat will take you to that file. Different colored boxes represent different file types and larger boxes represent larger files.
Use WinDirStat to find out what is consuming the free space on your hard drive. What you do next is up to you. If you're low on hard drive space you can delete unneeded files (be very careful) or move some stuff to an external hard drive.
The Windows Directory (Advanced)
You may have noticed that the Windows directory takes up quit abit of space. If you look inside the Windows Directory with WinDirStat, you may notice that most of the space is consumed by one or two directories, depending on what version of Windows you have.
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I have a unallocated space in my HDD and I wish to merge it with the primary partition, do have any idea how can I do it. thanks in advance
Microtronik
Microtronik
Merge Partitions
This depends on where the unallocated space is on your hard drive. If it's after the boot drive (C drive), you can extend the drive with the native disk manager (only on Windows Vista and Seven) or use a 3ed party partition manager.
If the unallocated space is before the boot drive, the Master Boot Record (MBR) and boot sector must also be updated to reflect any changes you make. When your computer boots, the BIOS (basic input output) reads the MBR from hard drive. The MBR scans the partitions, locates a bootable partition and reads the first sector from that partition and the boot process continues. If you extend the partition to the left, changing the location of the first sector and the boot sector isn’t also updated, the MBR will not be able to locate the boot sector. To fix this problem, you will need a Windows Recover Disk or a Windows Installation Disk that will allow you to access the recovery console and install a new boot sector. Every single partition manager out there should do this automatically, but if there is a problem you will need to do this manually.