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Powerdesk
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(19574 messages posted)
I just noticed that PD 6 is only $10 since they have released PD7. That's a real
bargain.
On Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 2:52 pm, John Dinan wrote:
>Awhile back I did a clean install of XP on my Dell Dimension 4550, changing from
>Home to Professional. Despite the annoying but inevitable need to hunt down and
>install a few drivers, the change has had the results I wanted – with one exception
>(which I assume, only, is related). Since the change, I’ve “lost” a great deal
of
>space on the main hard-drive. The data: hd partition capacity = 45gb; installed
programs
>+ stored data + pagefile = approx 16gb; “free space” = 7.2gb. I'd have expected
>that last number to be somewhere int 20-25 mb range at least. So I’m wondering,
of
>course, why the other 20gb or so doesn’t show up in any disk-analysis I do on the
>drive (I’ve used several program; all indicate the data I just presented). I know
>that the computer thinks I only have the 7.2 available because when I tried to download
>a file bigger than that I got a “running out of hard-drive space” msg. Mystifying.
> Here’s a bit of info that might help Those Who Understand These Things: I had
two
>partitions with my previous [XP Home] installation, one small and the other large.
> When I reinstalled XP, I only wrote to the large partition [both were identified
>as available.], putting the OS on it once it was re-formatted. The material on
the
>smaller partition was intact after the re-install. The computer, now with XP Professional,
>runs fine. But that 20mb of drive space isn’t being recognized. Any ideas? Any
>solutions? Thanks.
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