If you’re working with multiple Windows XP disk drives, you can easily create a pie chart to show the amount of free and used space on each drive—both removable and floppy. Read this tip to learn how to utilize free drive space.

You can obtain detailed information about the amount of available and used space on your Windows XP disk by right-clicking any drive icon in My Computer and selecting Properties. You also get a nice pie chart display that depicts this information graphically, which makes it very easy to quickly analyze your hard disk usage.

If you have multiple drives, performing this operation on each one can be time consuming. Fortunately, Windows XP can provide the same type of pie chart display for all your drives in one tabbed dialog box. Here’s how:

1. Open My Computer.
2. Hold down [Ctrl] and select each one of the drive icons.
3. Right-click the last one and select Properties.

The resulting dialog box will have a tab containing a pie chart for each drive. You can use this technique with removable as well as floppy disk drives.

Note: This tip applies to both Windows XP Home and Professional editions.