Freeing Up Space on

Your Hard Disk Drive

The PC comes with a hard disk drive. Depending on your model, the hard disk drive has 20 gigabytes (GB) to more than 160 GB of total disk space. The PC comes with preloaded software programs and a partition within the hard disk drive that takes up a certain amount of space on the hard disk drive.

Note: The system recovery image is in a partition area of the hard drive; this disk space is not available for your use.

The partition:

■Houses a backup version of the operating system and the programs included with the PC.

■Takes up about 5 GB of hard disk space, reducing the total amount of space available for your use.

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HP Pavilion home PC

Use the following procedures to:

■View the amount of used and free disk space by using the System Tools Disk Management.

■Uninstall unneeded programs.

■Use the Disk Cleanup utility.

■Reinstall programs that came with the PC.

To display hard disk space

To view the amount of space on the hard disk:

1Click Start on the taskbar.

2Click Control Panel.

3Click Performance and Maintenance, if it is present.

4Double-clickAdministrative Tools.

5Double-click Computer Management. The Computer Management window opens.

6Double-click Storage.

7Double-clickDisk Management (Local).