question about my hard drive?

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  1. gpl1023

    gpl1023 Member

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    my c: is ok but i save all my downloaded songs on my d: and its running out of room what should i do. i ran a diskkeeper to defragment it and it says that the d: is severely affected the overall health is critical. i only have 1% free space and i deleted about 5 gb worth of songs and it changed for a couple of days then it went back down and i havnt been downloading anything. what should i do? should i go buy a hard drive and transfer everything to it. will that help?
     
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    you pretty well answered your own question by suggesting another hd. can get either external hd or internal.
     
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    at compusa they are selling 300gb 7200rpm hard drives for 80.00
    that might be good for all your songs. might look into that.
     
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    halfhere, reduce your sig as it is to big as per forum rules above.
     
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    just making sure that will help thanks a lot
     
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    I was browsing threads, and since hard drives are the subject... this kinda fits. I am considering purchasing a new one, as mine is only 40 gig and mine is usually so full there is not enough free space to defrag. I had a friend tell me that a HD larger than 120 gig is a LOT more likely to go bad sooner. He says smaller is better. Any truth to that?
     
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    does it matter what brand hard drive it is, and how do hard drives go bad?
     
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    ahiah9, any hard drive can go at any time no matter how big it is. besides 40gig hd probably soon will be discontinued production.
     
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    when a hard drive goes bad can ou still get can the things saved on the hard drive get put back on the computer? Will they be deleted or damaged?
     
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    depends on how bad the drive is determines whether you yourself can get the info off because if hd is dead than will cost $500Can or more for a company to get your info off for you.
     
    ddp, Dec 26, 2005
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