Free and Easy Ways to Clean a Hard Drive

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Tip 1 - 7 Ways To Free Up Hard Disk Space On Windows

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Caroline Enz | permalink

Hard drives are getting larger and larger, but somehow they always seem to fill up. This is even more true if you’re using a solid-state drive (SSD), which offers much less hard drive space than traditional mechanical hard drives.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Easy Ways to Clear Space on Your Laptop's Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by sindar 47 | permalink

Do you live with a thin-and-light laptop that has a small drive? Or just have a large drive that's filled to overflowing? Here's how to get some breathing room back.

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/259971/easy_ways_to_clear_space_on_your_laptops_hard_drive.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Analyze, Clean Out, and Free Space on Your Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Xavier Audibert | permalink

Hard drive space is cheaper than ever, but as Parkinson's Law dictates, your data (and, let's face it, BitTorrent addiction) somehow expands to fill your space available for storage. Here's a few simple but effective ways to clean out your hard drive.
Tags: Hard Drives, Disk Space, Clutter Cleanout, Cleaning, Feature, Hack Attack, Top, Disk recovery, Downloads, Optimization, How To, Gizmodo, Lifehacker

For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/5511904/how-to-analyze-clean-out-and-free-space-on-your-hard-drive ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to Clean Out Your Overflowing Hard Drive and Get Your Space Back

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jakub Ogorek | permalink

Hard drives get messy. You save files and forget them, download huge chunks of data that pile up, and change your naming schemes a hundred times. It's spring, though, so why not do a little tidying up?
Tags: how to, windows, files, clean, Lifehacker

For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-clean-out-your-overflowing-hard-drive-and-get-yo-510511720 ^[4]

Tip 5 - How to Delete Everything on a Hard Drive

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Egg Man Pete | permalink

Easy instructions on how to wipe a hard drive. A hard drive wipe will erase everything on the hard drive - something deleting and formatting can not do.

For further reading: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/wipe-hard-drive.htm ^[5]