My C drive is telling me it has 2% remaining available disk space I can't defragment because this feature requires 15% free space to perform another player I have is 98% space free available on it,...

How to get to my other drive hard since it is empty and that the system is full 'dangerous' percentage has got me nervous but I use my computer rarely at 98%, I have no excessive programs I have not 'game' on this subject I've basically use it to a company of Quickbooks, photos, music, e-mail, my C drive is small, but my other is 98% empty please help

Hello Sunsoaked,

Thank you for your message.  The best thing you can do at this stage is to begin to copy the data from your hard drive on your external hard drive.  You mentioned that you have a lot of photos and music.  These are two of the easiest to transfer items.  To do this, copy your complete record of the music and the image on the hard drive.  After you be sure that all your data has been copied, you can then delete the music and images of the hard drive which is full.  This should dissipate enough disk space for you to perform a defrag, etc.  Remember that when you delete these items, you will also have to empty the trash free up disk space.
Please let us know if it did or did not help to solve your problem.
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