This useful tutorial shows how to work with the Disk Management utility so that you can do whatever you want to your partitions: create new ones, delete existing partitions, shrink or extend partitions, changed drive letters and labels, etc. The tutorial works for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Running out of disk space on your computer? But you have a 200GB hard drive, where did all that space go!? Unfortunately, temp files, duplicate files, backups, etc can end up taking a lot of space over time. Read on to learn about analyzing the data on your hard drive to figure out what’s taking up the most space.
This free, read-only scanner will check any kind of drive for errors. It’s fast, thorough and has a nice interface. A paid version uses S.M.A.R.T technology to alert the user in advance of any drive errors.
A uniquely visual tool, WinDirStat shows disk usage by color and partition. You can even delete file you know for certain you no longer need. Works with XP, Vista and 7.
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