Laptop hardrive help?

I have an old laptop with 33.4GB hard drive but the operating system uses half of it so I only have 14GB of free space is it worth upgrading the hard drive from 33.4GB to 160GB Hard Drive plus would it make it faster

Not make it faster, set up drop box store all your files there. GB is nothing ram is the enemy.

speed is Processor & RAM , there is some tweeks to speed it up. google it for your OS.

download http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

run cleaner and then run fix issues.
go to tools/ under "start up" in ccleaner, and switch of all the programs you can see but not windows or stuff .32files others.

you will be speed up http://www.piriform.com/defraggler run that. get your space back.

Hi
it would be a good idea to give you more storage space, but it will not make it run faster what would help is to put in as much ram as it will take as it is the ram which generally speeds things up.
the drive you have on your laptop has a hidden partition which is used for a factory default that is why it appears to be taking up more room than it actually is so when the operating system goes out of whack you can restore it to the factory setting.
so if you take it to a tech with the new disk he can install that as well so you can have a factory reset as well just like has been the case up to now. he would also be the best to advise on how to increase the speed at which this computer works.

I kinda disagree with the folks who said it would not be faster. It has been my experience that the more data you have in a hard drive the slower it will run. I am not talking anything really significant here but enough to notice. When my 250GB in my Toshiba laptop was getting full I bought 2 1TB Western Digital External Drives. Moved all my personal files to both. The reason for 2 was because one was the back up for the other. My files are important to me. Anyway, when I did not have the externals hooked up I noticed that my laptop with just the OS, programs, and very few personal files was faster. Just be sure that you do the research to make sure you buy the correct drive, learn about cloning a hard drive if you do not have discs for your OS and/or Programs you use, and back up all personal files because as we all know s@*t happens. Hope this helps. Good Luck.

Changing Hard drive won't make your computer faster,
I think your Operating system is Windows 7 or Vista, so they consume a large disk space, u need to install windows xp, it will not take more than 2GB,