Limited storage on laptop

[Feets]

I bought a HP laptop about a year ago. It was only 30gb and I knew this was low, but I rarely save anything to laptops anyway so figured it would be fine for what I need to use it for (mainly just using the internet).

But the 30gb was a bit misleading as approx half of this is used up by system files. Is there any way of getting more storage out of this laptop?

Thanks in advance!

 

[liamt]

Put a new HDD in it or use a pendrive

 

[gibbletts]

That's the problem with netbooks, if you've got an sd card slot you can get a decent size quite reasonably or the most cost effective option is a USB hard drive but that's only practical if you use it one place

 

[systemlord]

An unpowered USB hard drive would be my suggestion. You can get a 1Tb for a reasonable price if you shop around.

 

[Feets]

I've used external hard drives to store pics/music etc before. Do you mean to use it the same way? Or can I put the system files onto it instead?

 

[boodysaspie]

If you're on Windows 10, try Compact OS.