re: HDD Free space loss Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 10:15 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bob B (2307 messages posted) You probably can't recoup enough to make a usable difference. Running XP on anything smaller than 10G is just asking for problems.. On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 9:32 am, Philippe wrote: >Hi, > >For compatibility reason I managed to install XP on a Fat16 partition; so I had 2GB. >After XP and application installation, there was about 300 MB left. It was some month >ago. > >I move the virtual memory cache on another partition, I cleared the IE cache, I use >only one account, I used windows washer and disable prefetch mode. Now, I have about >120 MB HDD free. Maybe I had installed one small application or two; that doesn't >explain a minimum of 150 MB vanished. > >My question is: where are those MB ? > >I suspect XP to make some log and backup of software and driver information regularly. >Can we regain the space ? > >Thanks for your help >Philippe > Written in response to: HDD Free space loss (Philippe: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 9:32 am) Responses to this message: re: HDD Free space loss (nemyx: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 11:16 am) All messages in this thread [show all] HDD Free space loss (Philippe: Tue, Feb 11, 2003, 9:32 am) re: HDD Free space loss (Adam Bradley: Tue, Feb 11, 2003, 10:06 am) re: HDD Free space loss (Bob B: Tue, Feb 11, 2003, 10:15 am) re: HDD Free space loss (nemyx: Tue, Feb 11, 2003, 11:16 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum