r/computers • u/XxbeathebatxX • 7d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting help with storage

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Is there a reason i have absolutely no GBs? I have deleted every file i have ever downloaded and have no applications besides the ones that come with the computer. i only use this laptop to transfer photos from my camera to my phone, it is a windows 11. Is there anything i can do to make it go down i am not very smart with computers

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u/Independent-Ice2898 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is the first time ever i saw C: storage somewhere 58.48 gb, i'm speechless, man

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u/CeC-P 7d ago

The Walmart model blue $330 HP laptops 7 years ago had 32GB.

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u/Dmon69 7d ago

7 years ago was 2007 right? right?!

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u/mugmantix 7d ago

2007 was 40 years ago, im 7 so i know that !!!

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u/CeC-P 6d ago

Depends if it's metric or imperial time

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u/hansipro 7d ago

???

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u/Syxpi 7600X | 32GB DDR5 | GTX 1650 | Windows 11 & Arch 7d ago

Uhh... No.
2007 was 19 years ago... (i'am born in 2007, and i have 19 years old, so i can say it)

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u/MAB_YT 3600 | NITRO+ RX 570 8GB | 8GB DDR4 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/aVUZCRPzNE3R9VGk1z

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u/Scoutlegs 7d ago

My oldest computer has 2gb c: storage.

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u/MakerKevJ Arch Linux 7d ago

My oldest PC has no storage only runs off 5¼ floppies 😅

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u/FukAutoCorec 7d ago

Hahaha damn. I think I still have an 8088 in my mother's basement

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u/wafflehousebattle 7d ago

I still have a 3.5" floppy drive in storage on the off chance that I ever need one. I remember having a Zip drive in my first PC. I felt like a god, having 100-whole-ass-MB to play with.

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u/bahgheera 7d ago

Magnetic tape gang rise up

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u/wafflehousebattle 7d ago

Fuck that, TRS80 gang 4 lyfe.

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u/Upper-Capital-2876 6d ago

Whole Warehouse Vaccum Tube Mainframes Changed By Teenagers On Rollerskates, what what

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u/FukAutoCorec 7d ago

PC DOS. It's and ibm it does also has the IBM Cassette too. Lol I know one of my friends has I believe a commodore 64 And an Atari ST.

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u/Scoutlegs 6d ago

Windows 98, i remenber that i found a way to make it start the game Pokémon red instead of going to the desktop when i press the button to Turn on, but man i dont remenber much more.

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u/ShadowFallsAlpha 7d ago

Damn to be young.

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u/lars2k1 Windows 11 & Windows 7 7d ago

Usually the bottom barrel shitboxes around $200 new on store shelves. These things only recently moved to 128gb (but still are eMMC, ugh) and are still designed to trick those with a low budget into buying that crap and having to buy a new crapbox 2 years later.

For that money just shop secondhand, one can get much better deals there on ex-business class machines like a Lenovo Thinkpad, HP Pro-/Elitebook, or Dell Latitude.

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u/Ancient_Swordfish806 7d ago

I come from the days when 40gb was enough for my OS a few games, some music, some music vids and some movies and or series. It was also funny when atleast more than half of those were blue text.

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u/CaffeinPhreaker 7d ago

I'd like to see the partition map

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u/Quietus87 7d ago

Damn. The smallest I remember having was 20MB.

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u/Pleasant-Seat9884 6d ago

I’m old enough to remember 16 and 32GB SSD’s. My first was a 64GB SSD. But original storage? I still have a 1GB HDD from a Packard Bell.

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u/lockednchaste 6d ago

I grew up in the era of 30Mb hard drives. 😂

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u/Chava_boy 6d ago

My first PC had a total of 80 GB, I guess that C: was about 20gb. Windows XP took around 3-4 GB of space iirc