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Wondows XP Pro's partition, free space problem...

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h2sammo

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I have a 80 gb HD and i partitioned it into a 4.5 gb and a 70 gb partition. I have XP Pro and Office XP on the small partition and any other progs and movies, pics, files, etc on the large partition.

I have 3 main folders into the 4.5 gb partition (windows XP, programs (Office XP), etc). When i right click on eahc of the 3 and add up the sizes, I get 2.29 gb. So, 2.29 gb on that partition should be full, the rest 2.21 should be free.

However, and here is my problem, when i look at the pie chart pic for the small partition (drive D), it sais that 4.4 gb is full, and i have 233 mb of free space. Every now and again, i get a message saying that windows needs at least 250 mb of free disk space in order to run properly.

I tried to defrag the drive, but with only 5% free space, it sais that it cant defrag efficiently.

How does all of this add up together? Are there files that do no show up on Windows Explorer in that drive D? How come it gets so full but I should have half of it free?

And if you think its all temp files and i should do a disc cleanup, ...its not it, cuz i did it and it the difference is barely visible.

Pls help.
Thank you.

 
I'm guessing that the pagefile is located on the system drive, but not visible to Explorer. Just a guess, though. But 4.5 GB is definitely small for XP + programs, especially if you install the whole Office package.
 
ok, what are the page files.
i took Office XP out and put it ont he other partition.
now i only have windows XP and some other progs (400 mb) on my small drive.
is this enough space for it?

thx for help

cb
 
ok, what are the page files.
Click to expand...

Paging files are physical backing stores for virtual memory. They are part of how the OS uses your harddrive to make it appear that you have more memory than you really do. By default the pagefile is about 1.5x your physical memory. So, if you have a 512meg machine, the pagefile will be about 768meg on disk.

Also, if hibernation is enabled, XP will allocate a 512meg file to dump memory to when you hibernate.

Bill
 
For starters - why did you partition up your drive like that? Partitioning doesn't really accomplish much - see Anandtech FAQ on partitioning, plus you'll run into problems like Windows not having enough space. 😛

As far as your low-space defrag woes - get a batch file / cmd prompt going and do "defrag /f" - IIRC that's the "force even if low space" option.

- M4H

 
Nothing wrong with his partitioning scheme.. just needs to free up space. Move page file and disable hibernation would be enough.


That FAQ on partition is hogwash, its loaded with blatant errors.
 
And don't forget the space taken up by XP's restore function. if not managed, this can also take up sustantial disk space.
 
Jeez.....what's the problem? Get a copy of Partition Magic 8.0. Give your "C" partition some more space. I just did it on one computer that had a similar problem.....my "C" drive is now 9gigs, working fine.
 
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