Extreme Disk cleanup

[dave xnet]

Hello,
my system consists of two installs of XP.
The first one in the C: drive, (an update of windows ME)
and added later, a second install in the F: logical partition.
Dual booting works well.

I ran "disk cleanup" today
on the C: system, but I ran it for the F: drive.
The tool told me that I had 16MB of used
"windows 98 or ME setup files" on the F: drive
I checked the box to clean them. Big mistake.

It deleted f:\program files and
f:\windows. Wow, that's some cleanup!

Luckily I had a recent Acronis backup and all is
well again.

Don't you think "Disk Cleanup" should be a bit smarter
than that?

Dave

 

[Rich Barry]

Dave, well I guess anything is possible. Though how it confused Win98 or
Me setup files with WinXP windows and program files folders is very
interesting.

 

[Don Taylor]

my system consists of two installs of XP.
The first one in the C: drive, (an update of windows ME)
and added later, a second install in the F: logical partition.
Dual booting works well.

I ran "disk cleanup" today
on the C: system, but I ran it for the F: drive.
The tool told me that I had 16MB of used
"windows 98 or ME setup files" on the F: drive
I checked the box to clean them. Big mistake.

It deleted f:\program files and
f:\windows. Wow, that's some cleanup!

I have two XP installs, one in each partition.

The other day I accidentally did a defrag on one partition running
the XP from the other partition. Actually I was astonished it
didn't firebomb the other installation of XP in the process.

 

[Kelly]

Out of curiosity Dan, are your XP partitions NTFS?

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[dave xnet]

Out of curiosity Dan, are your XP partitions NTFS?

Hello. I'm the OP.
One of my partitions is ntfs while the other is fat32.
I've cross defragged from both systems without any ill
effects at all. Might even be beneficial in some circumstances!

However, just like disk cleanup, the tools are completely
unaware that the other partition is a boot/system
partition.
Cheers,

Dave

 

[Don Taylor]

Out of curiosity Dan, are your XP partitions NTFS?
Nope