Bizarre WinXP problem

[sandorski]

This has been bugging me for awhile now, but until recently(trying to run NHL 2003) it has not been a serious issue.

Background:

1) I have 2 40gb hard drives. The first hd has: C: 500mb D: 19.5gb E: 20gb. The second hd has 2 equal partitions of 20gb. note: those are not the actual numbers, they are rounded out.

2) I'm using WinXP Pro and all partitions use NTFS

3) All partitions combined, there are over 20gb free.

Points directly pertaining to my issue

4) There is an approx total of 100mb of files on C:, yet there is only approx 30mb as "free" at any given time.

5) Show All Files is on(aka--no hidden files), yet the used up 400ish mb on C: can not be accounted for

6) I have C: setup to *not* be used for swapfile usage.


Any ideas as to why my C: partition is acting this way? thanks.

 

[bsobel]

Hibernation file of system restore is probably taking the extra space. Thats a REALLY small boot drive for the OS, you should consider repartitioning.
Bill

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: bsobel
Hibernation file of system restore is probably taking the extra space. Thats a REALLY small boot drive for the OS, you should consider repartitioning.
Bill

Is there a way to move that file to another partition?

Yea, I know it's a goofy partition(I did it so I could fool around with Linux), but I'd like to avoid playing with my partitions if possible. 🙂

 

[johnlog]

In XP Pro you can reduce the size of the System Restore files on all partitions. I think by default System Restor is set to use 500 megs on C: and on all partitions but you can reduce that to around 100 megs.

You can also change your swap file to another partition in order to free up more space on C:.

You can safely change your partition sizes with Partition Magic 8. I would make C: at least 2 gigs and probably higher. 4 gigs would be better.

I wonder how in heck you have XP Pro running from a C: with only 500 megs on it. Must not run correctly or may be running slowly.