Is your hard drive running out of space?

It is literally the final frontier for your hard drive. The drive has a fixed finite size at manufacturing time. Once it is filled to that point, the data may literally have nowhere to go. The usual symptoms are when the operating system slows down or refuses to carry out any more work. The possible solutions to this are to install a larger one and transfer the data to it or delete/move files to other media such as a spare drive, USB device, writable CD/DVD Zip drive or floppy. You may need to re-install the operating system and set up your internet connection again. A skilled technician with the right equipment may be able to copy your partition to a bigger drive and then increase its size. Whether that happens or not, there is no more your original drive can do until space is freed up. Despite the speed and efficiency of modern hard drives, their finite size is their Achilles heel. For this reason, it is wise to see the 'end coming' when the drive slows down or refuses to do the jobs you need because of data congestion. One other alternative would be to add a second hard drive and transfer as much portable data (pictures, documents etc) to the newer, emptier drive. The more free space the drive has, the better it will work. It doesn't have to be the end of the line for your hard drive, but you do need to take action to deal with the data congestion before the system refuses to function any more.