XP lag due to low hard drive space?

[Kaido]

I'm creating my master disk clone and am using a 10 gig partition for sizing purposes (it will later be resized larger and the clone will be restored to the new partition). I've used 8.95 gigs and have 1.88 gigs free and XP has gotten really laggy; even the mouse is laggy. I've run the normal adware/anti-virus stuff and it hasn't caught anything, so I suspect it may be due to low disk space. It may be a graphics issue (64mb integrated video card), but the video card should be overkill for just running the Windows GUI. If I move an open window around really fast performance gets slaughtered - the whole screen gets realy slow. Any ideas on this one?

 

[imported_LoKe]

1.88 is plenty. Windows only complains when you get winthin ~30MB, IIRC.

 

[br0adband]

Originally posted by: LoKe
1.88 is plenty. Windows only complains when you get winthin ~30MB, IIRC.

Uhmmm... not even.

Anytime you approach ~15% free space remaining on the drive, Windows (any version since NT) is going to start choking like Mama Cass and a ham sandwich. If you've got that much data on your hard drive, start backing it up and freeing up some space; you'll notice the improvement as soon as you do it and then run a defrag pass.

Besides, something is wrong with the math there:

using a 10 gig partition

and

I've used 8.95 gigs and have 1.88 gigs free

just doesn't add up right.



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