HT201210 How to make room when disk is full?

Trying to restore a phone with or w/o backing it up and it's saying the disk is full. How much do I have to delete and where on comp do I need to do this?  How do I know space has been made?
thanks
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How much free space do you have?
How larger is your disk?
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