how do u get more free space for your computer? rite now i have 64.0 MB RAM, how can i get more? so i can be able to download more programs n stuff?

RAM is different from hard disk space.

RAM is where programs run and temporary data is stored. anything in RAM is wiped out when the computer is shut down. to get more, you have to purchase and install additional RAM.

hard drive space is where your actual files and programs and things go. to get more space, you can delete existing data (try deleting files you no longer need or uninstalling programs you don't use), or purchase a larger hard drive.

I have got myself a second harddrive. So i got more space. right now i'm storing my webdesign files, downloaded files and all stuff that isn't part of a program on my second harddrive. This is what i got:

A:\ disk drive
C:\ 1st harddrive
D:\ 2nd harddrive
E:\ my burner
F:\ cd-rom player

harddrives aren't that expensive anymore these days. And maybe if you ask around someone has got some extra space at home that they have lying around that you can buy for a couple of dollars ;) That's how i got my extra space, via my neighbour

Love,
Mirna

like how much would it cost to purchase a larger hard drive?

depends on what your computer can take (there is a limit i heard) but i'm not really an expert in this stuff.

if you buy a second harddrive, and you build it in, then the first and second together should be below the limit if i'm sure. Although the second one can't have programs, or you have to install windows files on that one too. I wasn't to expert in these things so i have my programs and stuff on the C:\ one and the downloaded files etc on the D:\

what where you thinking about? how much new space?

it depends what capacity hard drive you want :)

you can try looking on http://www.pricewatch.com
you can get anything from a 20 or 30 GB drive for under $50, on up to 250 GB one for around $250.

but make sure you can use it- most PCs (without the addition of other hardware) can only have 4 IDE devices, including hard drives, CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM/DVD-R drives, ZIP drives, etc. if you have 4 now, you'll have to stop using one or replace the existing hard drive, which can be a pain because you have to either move all the files or reinstall everything from scratch. you may also need to buy new cables separately if the ones you get with the new hard drive aren't long enough. I can't use my ZIP drive right now since the addition of my CD-RW drive because the cables I have are too short since I had to do some rerouting and I'm too lazy and cheap to get new ones (hey, I don't miss it that much :))

EDIT: the only limit on hard drive space is the size of the drive. currently 250 GB is the largest that I know of. there is a limit on RAM though- the current PC architecture only supports up to 4 GB of RAM.

you cant have programs like paint/art programs and shareware files on the second hard drive but u can have downloaded files from home or the internet? what i really want is more hard drive space so i can download alot of paint programs n games without getting the mesege pop-up "you have run out of disk space on drive C. please free up some space by deleting old or unnecessary files". and i also want drive for a dvd and a cd burner.

you can have whatever you want on either drive :)

since that makes 4 devices, you should be good. just know that you won't be able to add any more in the future.

how large is your hard drive currently? unless you download TONS of stuff or install A LOT of programs and things, you shouldn't need more than 20-40 GB more, probably. but only you can really judge that. and keep in mind that newer software generally uses more disk space. so if you think 20 GB is enough for current software, you may want to go a little bigger so that down the road, when software is larger, you'll still have enough space.

i said:

or you have to install windows files on that one too

and beside that, if you move the download files to your D:\ drive from that moment on, you allready have loads of new space on your C:\ drive for other programs. I even moved My Documents to my D:\

Love,
mirna

isn't the D drive for disks? or how does it go?

you can give different drives whatever letter you want, basically. with the exception that I believe A: and B: are reserved for floppy disk drives. usually the hard drive(s) come next, so usually C: or C: and D: then CD-ROMs, etc. are D: or E: and so on. but I know that you can give drives different letters because at school your work drive is always H: and the common drive for teachers to put class stuff on (read-only for students) is K:, and I believe there are also P: and Q: (among others) drives, and they don't have that many different drives- so the letters are not always consecutive.

what is there, like a drive for every letter of the alphabet? :D,
coz if there were i prolly wouldn't have space problems anymore.

I think you can label drives all the way up to Z, yes :)

my school is just weird. I think they only have a single, like, 20 GB hard drive on the server for the entire school (of 3,000 students and I think around 150 staff members), because the school newspaper sort of got in trouble when our stuff was up to 500 MB which was supposedly taking up 1/40 of the entire server's hard drive space goes]. (I'm sure they were less happy when we had 800 MB of stuff for a while...) I think they just have it partitioned to separate stuff. although supposedly grades and stuff are kept on a separate server completely inaccesible through student accounts...