HD Space and Other PC Problems

By anitobopper | Jul 24, 2008

hard disk I haven’t posted for quite sometime now since my PCs been acting up lately. It’s been a bit slower than usual and upon a little investigation, I found out that my HD is almost full and fragmented. Coupled that with an old pc problem, booting and no display on the monitor, it kinda sucked.

Flashback to when I assembled it a few years back, after a few months of using it, it suddenly hanged and refused to work. I rebooted it only to find out that it won’t display anything on the monitor. I thought it was a video card problem. I took it to a friend and his tech just cleaned the memory chip with an eraser, slipped it in another slot and it worked back just fine again.

So everytime this thing happens, I only have to clean the memory chip and the slot and it would work again. I’m suspecting either the memory chip is faulty or the slot on my motherboard is. I even took it to where I bought the parts and have them check it out but they couldn’t find anything wrong with it, since it was working, even though I wanted to replace the items, I couldn’t.

Anyway, through the years, I have been accumulating files such as pdfs, docs, jpgs, csv and even flv files that my disk space is now down to about 2-3 gigs of free disk space. Some files I transferred to CDs and flash drives but in just about a day or two of adding or downloading more files it goes back to just around 11-16% free disk space. I even uninstalled several apps that I don’t use just to free more space but what it boils down to really was the need for more disk space.

Only thing to do is either get a second drive or get an external one. I’m still weighing my options since the other problem – no display on the monitor, seems to come out of nowhere and continuous to be a pest.

The past couple of days though, my pc seems to work fine. So I’m back to saving files to CDs and freeing a few disk space here and there. I hope things go well from here so that I’ll be able to probably get an external usb drive, maybe a western digital passport perhaps to finally solve my disk space problem.

Flash Drives- USB external drives