The process to determine the amount of available hard drive space varies depending on what operating system you're using. To proceed, select your operating system from the list below and follow the instructions.
- In Windows, we can find free space of a disk drive using fsutil command. This command's syntax is shown below. Fsutil volume diskfree driveletter. Drive letter can be any local drive.
- Checking storage device info. The information shown in the dialog box is unique to the storage device. Shown are the device's name, type of storage, cryptic file system info, as well as used and free space. A handy chart illustrates storage capacity graphically.
- Right-click the unallocated space and select 'New Simple Volume' to create a new partition with.
- Open the Finder on your computer, usually, this is in your Dock. In the Finder locate.
This video tutorial shows how to check your hard disk space using Windows 7. It also explains the Disk Cleanup Wizard, Compress, and Index options under the.
Memory (RAM) and hard drive space are two completely different things. For memory, see: How to find how much RAM is installed on a computer.
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Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 users
- Press the Windows key+E to open File Explorer.
- In the File Explorer window, in the left navigation pane, click This PC.
- After selecting This PC, you see a section called Devices and drives.
- Each storage device has a status bar, the amount of free space available, and the total disk space.
If you would like to view additional information, right-click the drive and select Properties from the drop-down menu that appears.
Windows 95, 98, NT 4.x, 2000, ME, and XP users
- From the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer icon.
- In My Computer, highlight and right-click the drive whose capacity you'd like to determine.
- In the menu that appears, select Properties.
- The Properties window displays the used space, free space, and the total capacity of the hard drive or other drives.
Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP users
If you are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, My Computer also displays the total size and free space for each of the drives in the main window. If you want to view more information, and a graph of available space, follow the steps above.
TipYou can also view the available space through MS-DOS.
MS-DOS and Windows command line users
Open the MS-DOS prompt.
To determine the available space on a hard drive using MS-DOS, we recommend using the dir command.
At the MS-DOS prompt, type:
At the end of the directory listing, you see information similar to the example below.
Adobe updater catalina. As you can see above, the hard drive has over 16 GB of free space. If you want to see all files and how much space they are occupying, type the following commands.
The command above lists all files on your computer (except hidden files) and displays the total amount of disk space they utilize, and free disk space.
- See the dir command and cd command pages for further information about each of these commands.
Windows 3.x and NT 3.x users
In Windows 3.x or Windows NT 3.x, you can determine the available free space by highlighting the C: drive, and then looking at the status bar at the bottom of the screen.
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You can also view the available space through MS-DOS.
Linux and Unix users
macOS
To determine how much drive space is available on your MacBook or iMac, follow the steps below.
- In the menu bar at the top of the screen, click the Apple icon to open the Apple menu.
- In the Apple menu, select About This Mac.
- In the System Information window that opens, click the Storage tab at the top.
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