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| Thread ID: 28619 | 2002-12-25 05:16:00 | Hard Drive Space | Attaboy102 (2805) | Press F1 |
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| 108949 | 2002-12-25 05:16:00 | Hi, My name is Michael Qian Email: attaboy102@hotmail.com I have a 15Gb hard drive and I am running Windows XP on a Athlon XP 1800+ cpu and 256mb of DDR 266 ram. I have two drive partitions, each drive is about a little more than 7Gb, but the problem is that about 1Gb on each partition seems to be wasted. Because when I go to "My Computer" and click on C:\.Properties, it says that used space is 3.86Gb, but when I go into C"\ and select everything and go to Properties, my used space is actually only 1.93Gb, so that is 2Gb wasted. the same thing happens on Drive D:\, but only one Gb is wasted. SO please, if you have a solution to that problem, please email me bck, my email address is at the top of my message. i play a lot of games so i have a lot to install, but with the empty 3Gb altogether wasted, I can hardly install anything. Yours Sincerely Thank you Michael Qian 25/12/2002 |
Attaboy102 (2805) | ||
| 108950 | 2002-12-25 07:42:00 | How are you selecting everything in c:? Could be you are not counting hidden or system files | wotz (335) | ||
| 108951 | 2002-12-25 08:02:00 | i second the above statement, to also select the hidden files just go to Tools/Folder Options/View/Show Hidden Files & Folders also [ b]tick[/b] [i]Hide Protected Operating System Files[i]. To bring everything back to normal just do the opposite of what is said, e.g Tick, untick. cheers, v.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 108952 | 2002-12-25 09:47:00 | Also Michael, it's not a good idea to post an email address on a site such as this. Spammers use automated "spiders" to trawl forums to pick up addresses - then spam them. On this site replies are posted out in the open and you get an email message saying there is a reply (the email address you listed when registering is hidden from the spammers). |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 108953 | 2002-12-25 09:59:00 | Remember that Windows XP will use a considerable amount of HDD space for "virtual memory" or it's "paging file" or "swap file" - whatever you want to call it. My 2000 SP3 machine recommends 766 MB for it - this could change depending on the amount of other types of memory you have available eg. physical memory - RAM You can also define the amount of "virtual memory" HDD space you want to allocate to Windows - I recommend setting the min and max levels the same so Windows does not "dynamically" change it all the time and therefore slowing down HDD performance - not to mention wasting space. :) |
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