I have a Dell laptop Latitude D500. Ok so my dad gave me his old work laptop for school. It has a tiny harddrive, only 27 gigs. When I got it there was MAYBE 5 gigs of free space. So in order for me to have music and games I got an external drive. Well everything was fine until about a week ago. I could of swore that when i got the external I had around 3 gigs left on the old harddrive. Well last week my harddrive was down to 1 gig, but problem is that the memory just kept draining. As of right now my computer is saying the C drive has 15mb of space left. Funny thing is, is that when i reboot it goes back up to around 200 mb but just drains back down. Any help with this problem would be much appreciated.

Thanks, RudyThe Windows pagefile changes size while you are using your computer. This MAY be why you seem to gain and lose free space. Please provide info on which operating system you are using. I use windows vista corporate version.Corporate isn't really a version. Do you maybe mean Business or Enterprise? it would be business then. Im looking at the page file link but I still don't get how my hard drive is down to 15 mb. I'd totally reformat that drive, and reinstall Windows.The page file is not static - it is a range. It usually starts at an amount equal to the RAM in the system and with a maximum size of double. You're losing too much space though. Is there any sort of backup software running on a SCHEDULE? On one of my contract jobs a company installed backup software on all of the portable computers that made a complete backup every week and filled up the hard drive before overwriting any old backups. One of the supidest things I've ever seen, and done by a multi billion dollar company. Uh my roommate took a look at it and he found that there was 11 gigs in the history folder. Wierd right, well he looked at them and what was taking up so much space were these folders with just dots in them. I'm guessing its some virus. ALSO im looking in the windows folder and I see an abundance of spuninst folders. Is this a virus?They are uninstall folders for windows UPDATES/service packs. You may delete uninstallers for updates older, then, say 6 months.There is also an option to remove the Windows Update Uninstallers in CCleaner under Advanced > Hotfix Uninstallers.

But as Broni stated, make sure your computer is running fine for a while before removing them. Once you delete them there is no getting them back.

Eg0Deaths idea about the backup files is a good one to investigate.

Also what security software do you use? PC-cIllin will take up loads of space with it's security logs.

Download ExplorerXP. It will allow you to easily find out how big what folders areI recommended reformat, because since it was your dad laptop, and he left you 5 gig free space out of 27, I assume, 22 gig comes from Windows, and dad's stuff....unless, you need dad's stuff.