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HDD Free space loss
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HDD Free space loss
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 9:32 am
Posted by Philippe
(1 messages posted)
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
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re: HDD Free space loss
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 10:06 am
Posted by Adam Bradley
(7823 messages posted)
I would recommend that you put XP on a bigger partition it can barley breathe on
a 2G partition
Go into “control panel>system>advanced tab>environmental variables”
and move the “temp” and “tmp” off of the windows partition
most browsers
have a setting to move there temp files
if you would like to move the “C:\documents
and settings\” structure post back and I will give it to you
good luck, Adam
Bradley
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
>
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re: HDD Free space loss
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 10:15 am
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
>
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re: HDD Free space loss
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 11:16 am
Posted by nemyx
(79 messages posted)
is system restore making backups?
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 10:15 am, Bob B wrote:
>You probably can't recoup enough to make a usable difference. Running XP on anything
>smaller than 10G is just asking for problems..
>
>
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