spring cleaning

[mill]

Thats a good ideal i have alot of mine either on cd's or floopys every time a program gets up dated i have to make another disk

[drfsupercenter]

I try to do a clean install every 6 months or so just to keep performance maximized, I test a lot of programs. Keep data/installers on a d partition

Is there a way to make a partition after I have been using the PC for some time now? I would back up on DVDs but I have almost 200GB filled on my two hard drives, so that would just be wasting. Is it even worth it on 80% full drives?

[Chewy]

I partition drives when they are new, 15-20 gigs for system and programs,
don't trust my data to some repartitioning program, extra hard drives come in real handy for backing up before changing partitions.

[drfsupercenter]

I do have an extra hard drive. It is almost full of DVD ISOs however. Should I burn all those ISOs to DVD+RWs and put all my downloaded files to drive F (60 gigs) and reformat drive C (160 gigs)?

The problem is some DVD rips and such, like I ripped all 6 Star Wars movies at 4-5 gigs a piece, that would eat the HD space.

[Chewy]

Never waste valuable hard drive space backing up video that cheaper
quality dvd media can do. That's what this forum is all about. Think about it,
a dvd holds over 4 gigs, it costs 30 cents.
300 disks costs 100$, that holds ~1.3 tetrabytes
5 250 gig hard drives costs 500$

[NightTran]

Never waste valuable hard drive space backing up video that cheaper
quality dvd media can do. That's what this forum is all about. Think about it,
a dvd holds over 4 gigs, it costs 30 cents.
300 disks costs 100$, that holds ~1.3 tetrabytes
5 250 gig hard drives costs 500$

I agree, my hard drive is temp file for the files that I have not have time to back up yet, as soon as is in the disc I delete it right away

[drfsupercenter]

Right, but drive F is a seperate drive, what else would I do with it? It came with my PC and I bought a better drive that hadn't had crap on it, and then set it as the master.

[mill]

1,000,000,000
x 4.7
--------------
4700000000
x 300
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1410000000000
Is this math ok

[drfsupercenter]

So what are you saying?

[mill]

im saying thats one good spring cleaning

[drfsupercenter]

Huh? What do you suggest I do?

[uufta]

So, when I do that %temp% thing, I get a couple of thousand files and folders, all those can be trashed with no problems? folders also?
When I tried to delete them it stopped at one that was in use, said I couldnt delete, so I quit for now to consult with you all.

gc

[blutach]

@uufta

Bypass that one - it is a current one - the rest (earlier) can be deleted. Certainly every one since before your last boot.

Regards

[mill]

So, when I do that %temp% thing, I get a couple of thousand files and folders, all those can be trashed with no problems? folders also?
When I tried to delete them it stopped at one that was in use, said I couldnt delete, so I quit for now to consult with you all.

gc

couple thousand ,thats alot. Did you ever check out your prefetch folder in windows

[mill]

Huh? What do you suggest I do?

Well drfsupercenter thats up to you. Myself i would burn them to dvd + R's. And if i had the time i would probally get somthing like photoshop and learn something about that. You would have alot of space to keep your pictures your working on . Theres alot of neat things you could get into, and there might even be a future in it for ya. But if you cant think of anything right now dont sweat it , I was mainly talking about, temp files, that windows keep, that can be deleted safely, not your projects that you have going on little buddy.