Cleaning/make space on my windows 7 & 8 hardrives.

I can defragment recovery D section (or any other for that matter) on windows 7 & 8?  on both computers, there is little or no space left. Whether or not, can I also backup my computers on cloud or Sky drive.  I had 3 external hard drives up to Sandy hit.  I don't have that 1 I know works for sure, but it is full that I find it hard to believe that she has 1 TB of storage, which brings me to my next question how to go on display all stored on it & what I can safely remove (I usually find later I needed) & Finally on 2 other external drives , I'm not sure that they were damaged by the floods (but believe it or not I'm still clean, even pretty sure I lost the power cords for).  Also all of my SD cards & jump readers have been affected by the flooding, is there a way to clean the connections to try and recover the data I had on them?  Many had photo & videos that have been completely lost in their printed report, recovering tem are extremely important as well as try to get the info of invoices etc. that were on these discs.

P.S. I'm not very good w / these "stupid electronic" that we cannot live without this century even though I own a 7, 8 touchscreen laptop & I - Pad which apple was kind enough to replace when they heard about my other having been lost in the storm! If only and others some co. software could have been as amiable as 99% of my discs have been washed clean of the info stamped on them! Hoping I don't have too many questions at a time!

Thank you tech savvy!

Lisa aka Mets4Me

Hi Lisa,

As you mentioned that you have very less space on your computer I suggest you to transfer or move the files or data on an external drive.

Copy or move files and folders

 

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-CA/Windows-8/copy-move-files

You can use Disk Cleanup to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your drives, which can help your PC run faster. It can remove temporary files and system files, empty the trash and remove a variety of other items that you might need is no longer.

Delete files using disk cleanup

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-CA/Windows/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup#delete-files-using-disk-cleanup=Windows-8

Note: to avoid any data loss, we strongly recommend to back up your files and settings on a disk external before resetting, refreshing, upgrade, or reinstallation of Windows or deleting files.

Apart from that you can also delete temporary files from your computer. Follow the steps below.

  1. Press the Windows key + Q key.
  2. In the search box present in the upper corner of the side right, type %temp% .
  3. Click on the result of the search, select all files and delete it.

For the device which you say who has been affected by the floods, I suggest for to connect you to your computer and check if you are able to view these files.

I hope this helps. Please write us if you have problems with Windows.

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