I searched the sticky thread with no luck. How can I find out how much memory is left on my hard drive? I’ve tried system tools and don’t see it there.
Open up My Computer–right click on hardrive—Properties—Under General Tab.
Thanks for the quick answer. I’m now officially a techno-dunce.
And while it could be argued that strictly speaking you didn’t say anything wrong (how’s that for beating around the bush? 
) since both solid-state memory and disk drives store information, one usually doesn’t call disk space “memory”.
All though hard drives do have a cache memory, I know they didn’t want to know what size it was.
Note that if the drive is very close to being full, this may give you a somewhat misleading answer, and the usable space may be less than what is shown. This is due to fragmentation of the file system (which is a long, complicated, and often surprisingly controversial topic). Basically, it stems from the way that your operating system writes files on the disk. Files are written one block at a time, with a block being somewhere between 4K and 64K, depending on the settings.
What this means is that the actual space taken up by a file is always a multiple of the block size (say 4K). If you create a simple 1K text file, it only “uses” 1K of drive space, but it actually takes up 4K of room on the disk. The other 3K is “lost”: space that is sitting unused on the physical disk. The problem comes when the disk gets very full, and the “unused” space is actually all used up by those “lost” bytes. This is one of the reasons that you will hear people tell you that you should keep 20% of your disk free. I have seen drives at work showing 8-12% “free” that actually had no usable space available.