How to find remaining hard drive space in Windows 8, 7, and Vista

This blog post was created to help people who do not know how much disk space they got left on Windows operating system. It is important to know how much free space you have because without free space, you will not be able to save more information to your computer. (ex. pictures, music, documents, games …) When your hard drive is full, you can make free space by deleting files you currently have. It is not difficult ! Let’s get started. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Follow this instruction to check hard drive space: (For Windows 8)

  1. In Windows 8, move your mouse cursor to the left-bottom edge of screen, then right-click. This will bring up a menu. Click “File Explorer”.
  2. Now, you will see your hard drive under “Devices and drives”. Select a hard drive and right-click, then click “Properties”.
  3. You can check the hard drive’s total capacity, used space, and free space.

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Follow this instruction to check hard drive space: (For Windows 7 and Windows Vista)

  1. Click “Start” button in the left-bottom of your screen.
  2. Move your mouse cursor on “Computer” or “My Computer”, and right-click, then click “Properties”.
  3. Now, you will see your hard drive under “Hard Disk Drives”. Select a hard drive and right-click, then click “Properties”.
  4. You can check the hard drive’s total capacity, used space, and free space.

That is it! This is how to see your hard drive space. We hope this information was very helpful for you. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thank you and have a great day!

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