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How to Check Your Hard Disk Space

New to computing? Need to find out if there's enough room on your hard disk for a new piece of software, or simply curious of your computer's capacity? If so, you've found the right wikiHow!

1. Left-click once on the "Start" button (usually at the bottom left of the screen).
2. A Menu should appear. Find the "My Computer" Icon on the menu, as well as left-click it once.
3. A Window should appear now. Find the Icon titled "HDD" (or Hard Disk, or simply "C:". It varies from computer to computer) in the window, as well as RIGHT-click on it once.
4. A list Menu should appear. Left-click once on the word "Properties".
5. A Window should appear containing all the information you need about your Hard Disk, along with a pie chart illustration.
   

   
   
   
   

• 1 Gigabyte is equal to 1,024 Megabytes.
• 1 Megabyte is equal to 1,024 Kilobytes.
• 1 Kilobyte is equal to 1,024 Bytes.
• 1 Byte is 4 Nybbles.
• 1 Nybble is 2 bits.
• On most file systems, files take up more space than their actual size. Refer to a definition of "cluster".

• Make sure not to confuse the "Free Space" with the "Used Space"!
• Sometimes manufacturers use 1,000 in place of 1,024, any number of times, when advertising space. For instance, floppy disks have closer to 1.38 megabytes rather than the common number 1.44.

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