hard drive too full after reinstalling XP

[lktx]

For numerous reasons, I did a full reinstall from XP Pro on up. There were
two partitions, one that had a significant amount of data and one miniscule.
I kept the partitions and wiped out the old info and loaded the new - at
least that's what the windows were walking me through "Warning this will wipe
out all previous versions...."

To make a long story short, I have completely restored the laptop with
minimal programs. All the Microsoft updates including SP3, have been loaded.
When I went to check my disk usage in "my computer" the disk is half full!
How is that possible?

It's working fine, albeit a little slow. I'm assuming that's because of the
amount of disk space used - it can't possibly be from the two "optional"
programs I have installed! Help!!!

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

this is a newsgroup dedicated to Microsoft Office for Mac; you must have
landed here because of the bad web interface provided by Microsoft. Even
though you will find a number of people in here who use both platforms, your
chances of obtaining a fast and accurate answer are much higher on a
newsgroup dedicated to Windows XP.

For numerous reasons, I did a full reinstall from XP Pro on up. There were
two partitions, one that had a significant amount of data and one miniscule.
I kept the partitions and wiped out the old info and loaded the new - at
least that's what the windows were walking me through "Warning this will wipe
out all previous versions...."

To make a long story short, I have completely restored the laptop with
minimal programs. All the Microsoft updates including SP3, have been loaded.
When I went to check my disk usage in "my computer" the disk is half full!
How is that possible?

It's working fine, albeit a little slow. I'm assuming that's because of the
amount of disk space used - it can't possibly be from the two "optional"
programs I have installed! Help!!!

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***

 

[John McGhie]

Empty your Deleted Files, and run DeFrag.

Now, what do you see?

The way you installed, chances are, you installed a new copy of Windows and
a new copy of each of your programs BESIDE the old ones.

So "yes" your disk is now full of rubbish

The quickest and cleanest way out of this would be to re-install again, and
THIS TIME, tell it to "Delete" the larger of the partitions, then create a
new one using the "Remaining space".

The smaller partition is probably your original software and drivers from
the manufacturer. Leave that one alone unless you are sure you do not need
any of it (which you probably don't, and you could probably simply copy the
thing off to a CD ROM and forget about it!)

Cheers

For numerous reasons, I did a full reinstall from XP Pro on up. There were
two partitions, one that had a significant amount of data and one miniscule.
I kept the partitions and wiped out the old info and loaded the new - at
least that's what the windows were walking me through "Warning this will wipe
out all previous versions...."

To make a long story short, I have completely restored the laptop with
minimal programs. All the Microsoft updates including SP3, have been loaded.
When I went to check my disk usage in "my computer" the disk is half full!
How is that possible?

It's working fine, albeit a little slow. I'm assuming that's because of the
amount of disk space used - it can't possibly be from the two "optional"
programs I have installed! Help!!!

--

Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Clive Huggan]

See how helpful Mac people are? ;-))

For future reference, here's where all the Microsoft discussion groups are
listed: http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx

Clive Huggan
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