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Freeing Up Space on, Your Hard Disk Drive

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Freeing Up Space on Your Hard Disk Drive The PC comes with a hard disk drive. Depending on your model, the hard disk drive has 20 gigabytes (GB) to more than 160 GB of total disk space. The PC comes with preloaded software programs and a partition within the hard disk drive that takes up a certain amount of space on the hard disk drive. Note: The system recovery image is in a partition area of the hard drive; this disk space is not available for your use. The partition: Houses a backup version of the operating system and the programs included with the PC. Takes up about 5 GB of hard disk space, reducing the total amount of space available for your use. 88 HP Pavilion home PC Use the following procedures to: View the amount of used and free disk space by using the System Tools Disk Management. Uninstall unneeded programs. Use the Disk Cleanup utility. Reinstall programs that came with the PC. Displaying Hard Disk Space To view the amount of space on the hard disk: 1 Click Start on the taskbar. 2 Click Control Panel. 3 Click Performance and Maintenance, if present. 4 Double-click Administrative Tools. 5 Double-click Computer Management. The Computer Management window opens. 6 Double-click Storage. 7 Double-click Disk Management (Local).

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HP Pavilion home PC
Freeing Up Space on
Your Hard Disk Drive
The PC comes with a hard disk drive.
Depending on your model, the hard disk drive
has 20 gigabytes (GB) to more than 160 GB of
total disk space. The PC comes with preloaded
software programs and a partition within the
hard disk drive that takes up a certain amount
of space on the hard disk drive.
Note:
The system recovery image is in a partition area
of the hard drive; this disk space is not available
for your use.
The partition:
±
Houses a backup version of the operating
system and the programs included with
the PC.
±
Takes up about 5 GB of hard disk space,
reducing the total amount of space available
for your use.
Use the following procedures to:
±
View the amount of used and free disk space
by using the System Tools Disk Management.
±
Uninstall unneeded programs.
±
Use the Disk Cleanup utility.
±
Reinstall programs that came with the PC.
Displaying Hard Disk Space
To view the amount of space on the hard disk:
1
Click
Start
on the taskbar.
2
Click
Control Panel
.
3
Click
Performance and Maintenance
,
if present.
4
Double-click
Administrative Tools
.
5
Double-click
Computer Management
.
The Computer Management window opens.
6
Double-click
Storage
.
7
Double-click
Disk Management (Local)
.