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I have a Laptop which I usually use for gaming. While I'm satisfied with the specs, the hard drive is too small i got mixed up between the RAM and the HDD when i bought it, apparently the RAM is 6GB but the HDD is 2GB? Here are some screenshots from my PC: Image 1, Image 2, Image 3.
What is the best way to upgrade it? Do I need to? My laptop is Asus, it also says "500GB HDD" on a sticker so i'm really confused.
Help!
2014-02-26 08:47:35
if you download files, dvd movies....you need a bigger hard drive unless you use an external hard drive and you transfer the files to the external hard drive.
2014-02-26 07:07:29
From the screenshots you have provided, your laptop's specs are as follows:RAM: 6GBHard Drive: 185GBProcessor: Intel Core i5 @2.6GHzYou have 38.1 GB of space remaining on your hard drive. Upgrading really depends on what you intend to install in the future. Check your installed applications and uninstall programs you don't use or rarely use.
2014-02-26 00:43:36
We would need to see the sizes for any other partition on the hard drive to have a better idea on the size of the hard drive, but as far as what is seen, the size is 250GB. There is a system restore partition, and the actual size of the hard drive is less than the stated amount, which is why you see 185GB total hard drive space. For the sticker to state that there is a 500GB hard drive when it seems to be only half does not seem right, unless you inadvertently told them to put in a smaller size hard drive instead. If you need more disk space and do not want to get rid of files or transfer media files to a portable hard drive, I would purchase a larger drive at 7200RPM speed. If you can afford it, get the hybrid solid state hard drives so that the speed would be even faster for load times of programs and games. It is a decent balance between performance, size, and cost (about 25-30% higher price than a standard hard drive, but not as high as a solid state drive that has much less capacity). The highest sized solid state drive that I have seen available so far is 750GB, but at a price of about $340USD. 500GB is around $250USD.If you wish to change the hard drive, I would recommend a program that would image the hard drive to the new drive so that you would not lose any data, and re-installation of most software would not be necessary. For more information on disk cloning/imaging, go here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-clone-your-hard-drive/ and here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/.
2014-02-28 07:00:14
If you are going to move the data DO NOT use the manual method Dalsan described above. Instead navigate to your profile directory. For each of these folders (Downloads, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos) in your profile, right-click it and select Properties. Click on the Location tab and enter the new location for the folder. Let Windows do all of the work of moving the files and updating all of the necessary links so there is less chance for mistakes. And if all goes well, it shouldn't break the ability of upgrading to future versions of Windows.