i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before
with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on
as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
some advice, please.

With the cost of HD being low. I would not think about installing XP on
anything smaller then 20gigs.
Yes it will load/install on the 9gigHD. But you will soon run out of space.
Too soon.
But if I remember right MS recomends 10 gig just for the XP OS.
I have a lean OS with only XP on the C drive plus direct work programs.ie;
AV program,Firewall,Printer and CD burn. And with those and the constant temp
files XP creates it is constantly setting at 9gig useage.
I have a 320gb HD that cost me around $90. You can get like a 120gb HD for
far less.

"roboz" wrote:

> i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
> steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
> Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before
> with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on
> as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
> some advice, please.

roboz wrote:
> i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
> steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
> Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before
> with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on
> as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
> some advice, please.


I don't think this is the advice you were hoping for, but it is
sincerely the best advice: Buy a larger hard drive, or a whole new
computer. XP Pro, Office and SteadyState will just about - if not
completely - shoot that hard drive's available space. Remember, the
drive needs a few gigs of "playing around" room, too.

Tony

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On Sep 9, 7:50 pm, roboz <ro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
> steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
> Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before
> with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on
> as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
> some advice, please.

Get a new HD. If your HD is more than 75% full, bad things start to
happen.

As Poatt, Tony, and Erik have already said, buy a larger HD. *If* you could
squeeze all three onto a 9GB HD, there would not be enough room for the
pagefile(also known as Virtual Memory or swapfile too), or enough room to do
a simple defrag. of your HD.

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"Erik" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
| On Sep 9, 7:50 pm, roboz <ro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
| > i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
| > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
| > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this
before
| > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn
it on
| > as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
| > some advice, please.
|
| Get a new HD. If your HD is more than 75% full, bad things start to
| happen.
|

the reason i was asking this question was because the pc is for a community
centre and we do not have money for hd upgrades. The pc we have was donated
with XP pro installed, and we were looking to install steadystate for its
lock down capabilities. Looks as though we cant use the pc?

"Curt Christianson" wrote:

> As Poatt, Tony, and Erik have already said, buy a larger HD. *If* you could
> squeeze all three onto a 9GB HD, there would not be enough room for the
> pagefile(also known as Virtual Memory or swapfile too), or enough room to do
> a simple defrag. of your HD.
>
> --
> HTH,
> Curt
>
> Windows Support Center
> www.aumha.org
> Practically Nerded,...
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>
> "Erik" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> | On Sep 9, 7:50 pm, roboz <ro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> | > i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
> | > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
> | > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this
> before
> | > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn
> it on
> | > as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
> | > some advice, please.
> |
> | Get a new HD. If your HD is more than 75% full, bad things start to
> | happen.
> |
>
>
>

roboz wrote:
> the reason i was asking this question was because the pc is for a community
> centre and we do not have money for hd upgrades. The pc we have was donated
> with XP pro installed, and we were looking to install steadystate for its
> lock down capabilities. Looks as though we cant use the pc?


If the lockdown capability is essential, then I would say "No",
sadly. It was like yesterday (truthfully, just a small handful of years
ago) that a 9 gig hard drive was considered *mongo* storage space.
Today, it is hopelessly small.

I've shuttled a half-dozen scenarios through my head in the last few
minutes, trying to think of how you can get what you want with that hard
drive - I came up empty. If the OS, an office suite, and Steadystate
are all essential, the hard drive is just too small.

Tony

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thanks, anyway tony. looks like have to seek out some donations for upgrade
to hdd. And i remember my first pc with 20MB hdd!!

"Tony Meloche" wrote:

> roboz wrote:
> > the reason i was asking this question was because the pc is for a community
> > centre and we do not have money for hd upgrades. The pc we have was donated
> > with XP pro installed, and we were looking to install steadystate for its
> > lock down capabilities. Looks as though we cant use the pc?
>
>
> If the lockdown capability is essential, then I would say "No",
> sadly. It was like yesterday (truthfully, just a small handful of years
> ago) that a 9 gig hard drive was considered *mongo* storage space.
> Today, it is hopelessly small.
>
> I've shuttled a half-dozen scenarios through my head in the last few
> minutes, trying to think of how you can get what you want with that hard
> drive - I came up empty. If the OS, an office suite, and Steadystate
> are all essential, the hard drive is just too small.
>
> Tony
>
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Instead of Office 2003 you may want to consider Open Office
http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html as its replacement. Smaller
footprint. Instead of Adobe reader 8 use Foxit reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rea...own_reader.htm, again much
smaller footprint (hard drive use) and much faster to load.

Go to a local computer store and see if they will donate a small usable hard
drive (20 GB or so) that they have pulled from a traded or discarded
machine. That may be the ticket to get the machine up and running. Ask the
members of the community center if they happen to have an old hard drive
laying around (I have drives from 30 - 100 GB that I don't use anymore
stacked on my spare part shelves to build machines to donate.) Have some of
the members of the community center chip in to purchase a small drive.

"roboz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
> steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
> Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this
> before
> with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it
> on
> as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
> some advice, please.

LVTravel wrote:
> Instead of Office 2003 you may want to consider Open Office
> http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html as its replacement. Smaller
> footprint. Instead of Adobe reader 8 use Foxit reader
> http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rea...own_reader.htm, again much
> smaller footprint (hard drive use) and much faster to load.
>
> Go to a local computer store and see if they will donate a small usable hard
> drive (20 GB or so) that they have pulled from a traded or discarded
> machine. That may be the ticket to get the machine up and running. Ask the
> members of the community center if they happen to have an old hard drive
> laying around (I have drives from 30 - 100 GB that I don't use anymore
> stacked on my spare part shelves to build machines to donate.) Have some of
> the members of the community center chip in to purchase a small drive.


All very good suggestions, Roboz. Even with a 20 gig hard drive, you'd
be pushing the envelope, but at least that would be *doable* for what
you want.

Tony


>
> "roboz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:F2783742-BD7B-4FC7-9426-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and
>> steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg.
>> Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this
>> before
>> with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it
>> on
>> as it said I didnt have enough disk space.
>> some advice, please.
>
>

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