I recently became very blasé about my PC and allowed my C drive to get full, and I mean full. Apart from the fact that the computer slowed down to a trickle, when I opened up Explorer it started doing some strange things I had never seen before. Where the files had always been indexed in alphabetical order, they refused to index. At first I suspected my operating system (Windows 2000) was the culprit, and reloaded it, losing some files in the process (all my Outlook Express folders, Opera bookmarks and sessions etc.).

Fortunately I knew what to do, and have fully recovered everything, but then I know my way around computers. The moral of this is that I should never have allowed the situation to develop in the first place, and I only had myself to blame. Check your hard drive for free space at least once a week and if necessary clear up some space. If you don’t know how to do this, get someone to assist you.

Tags: free disk space, Hard Drives, hdd

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