Adding memory

[Guest]

I recently went from 256 to 512 memory and my problem is that it isn't adding
to my local c disk memory where I need it so it is always telling me that my
disc space is low. How can I add some of this memory to my local disc c?

 

[Tom]

I recently went from 256 to 512 memory and my problem is that it isn't adding
to my local c disk memory where I need it so it is always telling me that my
disc space is low. How can I add some of this memory to my local disc c?

You're thinking of Virtual Memory, where some of the memory gets written to disk, and stored. For help, read here:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Tracy

How large is your hard disk and how much free space? In Windows Explorer
place the cursor on your C drive and select Properties. The information
is on the General tab.

How is your Virtual memory being managed? Start, Control Panel, System,
Advanced, Performance -Settings, Advanced, Virtual Memory -Change, and
verify that a check has been placed before "System Managed size". By
clicking on Change it does mean you have to or need to change anything
as you can exit by clicking on OK leaving the system exactly as it was.

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Hope this helps.

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[MICROSOFT]

I recently went from 256 to 512 memory and my problem is that it isn't
adding
to my local c disk memory where I need it so it is always telling me that
my
disc space is low. How can I add some of this memory to my local disc c?

Hi Tracy,
I think you've been confused by the word "memory". It's used to describe
many things. Technically, what you just did does increase the memory in
your computer, but that has nothing to do with how much memory your hard
drive can hold. The hard drive has a fixed amount of room on it, and the
only way to change that is to physically exchange the hard drive for another
one which has more room for memory inside it.

There is not enough info in your post to tell for sure, but you might be
able to get enough room on your hard drive by using the cleanup tools. Go
To Start, Programsm Accessories, Ssytem Tools, and then click on Disk
Cleanup. Follow the instructions on screen. It will not remove anything
that can crash your computer. That will delete a lot of files from your
hard drive.
If you cannot get enough room that way you might have to get a hard drive
with more "memory" inside it.

Come back if you still have problems and someone will tryt to help.

 

[Guest]

Like Tracy, I too went from 256 to 512 and thought the extra 'memory' would
solve a few problems. After reading Microsoft's reply, I understand things
aren't always as they seem. So here's my problem: I have approximately 4KBs
left in my Recovery D: drive and I'm totally lost after playing with this for
nearly two weeks now and I'm at my wits end. Here's all my info:
HP Pavilion Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 1.70 GHz
1.69GHz 504MB of RAM Windows XP Home SP2
The first thing I did was disable the annoying baloon alerting me every 5
minutes about a problem I've been working so hard to fix! LOL I also
followed START>Control Panel>Performance & Maintenance>Free up space on your
hard disk>selected 'Recovery D:'>clicked 'OK' but, unfortunately, it took me
to Disk Cleanup and I had already been there, done that with no more KBs or
anything else useful at this point.
My Restore Points have suffered, too. Not unlike another writer on these
boards, all of my dates have been erased due to the lack of disk space on my
Recovery D: drive. I'm allowed a day and a half's worth of dates to choose
from and that's as far back as I can go (if you call that going BACK )!
Lastly and as weird as this next query may sound, I'd just like to know if
this is connected to the 'Low Disk Space' business described above. The
question regards ADOBE Reader (free version) and why all of a sudden it
doesn't work. Is it because of the bigger problem I'm experiencing? If so,
I'll worry about that next, but if not, any extra help with this along with
any help concerning how I can get my Recovery D: drive back up & running
would be more than greatly appreciated. I'm not trying to hog the board -- a
simple answer to the latter question is sufficient. It's hard to go to bed
each night thinking about what I should try next, you know?
Thanks, in advance, for your support. I don't know what people like me
would do without people like you. No, I'm not 'sucking up' either -- you
guys would help me anyway ( now THAT was sucking up)!!! LOL LOL

Bern

 

[neil]

The only way to solve the lack of space on your "D:" drive is to delete some
things. You don't say how big the "D:" drive is but I would think about
copying some of it to a CD or DVD if you have either writers. Is the drive a
physical drive or a partition of your only hard drive.
What is the "recovery" drive have you set it up as "recovery" or is it the
PC manufacturer. If it's yours and an actual hard drive then you could
consider a new bigger drive.
But a full disk is a full disk.

Best of luck
Neil

 

[Robert]

Your memory is fine. Go buy another HD. If you don't wanna install one or
don't know how, get a USB external. Move data to the new drive (tell all
your software where that is), tell OE or Outlook to move their message
folders there, tell IE to put temp. internet files (cache) there, etc etc
etc.

 

[peterk]

What exactly is your "recovery D'" drive??
is this where the manufacturer of your computer placed a copy of XP for you
to use if you need to "recover"??
or did you name this drive "recovery"
If it is the manufacturers designation.....you are not supposed to place
anything there other what they put there.It is not a drive to save files to
or install programs to!!Have you gone into Administrative Tools/computer
management and looked to see if this is an actual physical drive or just a
partition on your C drive??
How much room is on your C drive??
If D is a partition on C go out and buy another drive.Hook it up as a slave
drive.delete all of the programs you installed on D and reinstall them onto
the new drive.Copy your personal files from D to the new drive.
get back to us with some more details
peterk

 

[Guest]

Thanks, guys, for the replies. Upon further review, I looked up 'My
Computer' and found the following:
3.5 Floppy (A HP_Pavilion (C HP_Recovery & CD-RW Drive (E
So, these were named by HP, not by me. I reported them as such to you
thinking
you needed to know that. I know my way around the computer enough to get
by, but
that's about it. Because of all these other little problems I've been
experiencing, I thought the best thing I could do was to perform a full
System Recovery. Obviously I couldn't do a System Restore due to the loss of
all restore points prior to a 36-48 hour period, so I didn't think I had many
options.
First, I suffered from a nasty little worm that was wreaking havok with my
anti-virus program so much so that it couldn't keep up. So I decided to
backup my files most important to me such as my pictures and medical articles
but, as you may know, XP Home does not include the Backup program. Once
again, I looked through the Knowledge Base & FAQ's and found out how to
install the Backup program -- even though I had no disks from HP.
Unfortunately, it was the Backup feature that filled up my D: drive to begin
with. This drive wasn't enough to support thousands of pictures, I guess,
because it not only halted the backup, it was the cause of the D: drive
having only 4KBs remaining. Unless I misunderstood, Backup gave the choice
of the D: drive or A: drive. God only knows how many floppies it would take
to backup all my files so D: drive seemed my only option. When I discovered
the Backup program did not allow backing up directly onto CD, the D: drive
was the only way to go, right?When I right-clicked on each of C: Drive & D:
drive and clicked on 'Format', I saw 'Capacities' of 32.2GBs and 5.02GBs
respectively. Is this what was meant by 'how big?' the drives were? And how
do I know if the drives are physical or a partition of my hard drive? I do
know that a partition on my hard drive holds such info making Recovery
possible -- if I've ruined that by backing up into it, am I screwed at this
point? A friend of mine suggested I use my GMail account to mail picture
files, for example, to my GMail address and store things on their server
until I backup my system. As soon as I'm finished, I can open my GMail and
retrieve my pictures or, better yet, leave them there and keep space open on
my computer. Sounds like a plan.
I hope I was able to answer a few of your questions. Thanks for helping me
find a
solution. By the way, I have extra invites to GMail accounts, if anyone's
interested -- that is, if I'm allowed to offer them here. Don't mean to step
on anyone's toes. It's just a simple thing I can do for someone else.

Bern

 

[Guest]

PS: Why do my posts come out typed so weird? I assume the type is
'wrapped' as I type, correct?
If I want to start a new paragraph, I hit Enter, but other than that, I type
straight through. So how come it looks fine one time and others it looks
like my previous post? Hmmmm..........

Bern

 

[peterk]

Judging by your reply the D: drive is a partition of your C: drive on which
HP placed Recovery Files in case you screw up.
Did you look under Control Panel/ administrative tools/computer
management/disc management.......???
This will show you the details you need.
It looks like you have a 40 GB HD with 2 partitions 32.2 and 5.2......C and
D.I would definitly go out and purchase another HD to hook up as a
slave....they ate not that expensive nowadays.The recovery files that HP
placed there are most likely still there,they usually cannot be overwritten
unless you've formatted that D drive then they are gone.
Your HP manual will tell you how to access and use this feature.Usually it
will format the C: drive and reinstall all of the programs that came with
your system.This in turn will also destroy everything that you have put on
the system since you purchased it.The only things that you would need to
back up would be your personal files.Every program that you have installed
can be reinstalled if you have the CD's.You can back up to a CDRW disc with
the XP backup program by formatting the CDRW discs with Packet Writing
Software like INCD from Nero.The catch to this is the size limit of the CDRW
discs.XP Home does include the backup program its just that certain
companies dont feel it necesary to install it on their OEM XP Machines.
If I were you I would delete all that stuff I backed up onto the D drive.
I would go out and purchase another HD....a large capacity one like 80gb or
more and hook it up.
Go to Admin.Tools/Comp Manag./Disc Management and format the drive
I would then back up what I wish to to this new drive.
Then I would run the HP Recovery command to take my system back to "as
Purchased"
I would save personal files to the new drive.
Any new programs I install in the future I would install onto that new
drive.
get back to us
peterk

 

[Guest]

Wow! I'm glad somebody understands this stuff. I try -- I really do. What
I know I taught myself and I'm not one to run to the forums every time I have
a problem. No offense, of course. I sing the praises of the forums when I'm
asked where to go for help. I simply meant that I try to solve situations
myself. How else can I learn? I know when I'm beat, though, so here I am!

Thanks to you, peterk, I understood everything you said with the exception
of the INCD, but I get the gist. You're half right about the Backup program.
XP Home DOES include Backup, but I had to hunt for it first. Through a lot
of looking, I discovered how to install Backup without the use of System CDs
not included with my purchase. I was reassured that if need be, the system
could back itself up in the case of a total Recovery. They neglected to tell
us that at least one of us needed to be a rocket scientist in order to
perform a total recovery "as it was as purchased". LOL LOL
Now that I've vented, I guess I need to retrace my steps and start over. I
don't understand why the Backup utility allowed me to go to D: drive in the
first place, but what's done is done. As Neil pointed out, a full disk is a
full disk, right? I will try to remove what I assume are duplicate files
from the D: drive and hope that I'm not allowed to erase the original files
of the drive in the process. I understood that the 'partition' HP described,
DID warn you from even opening certain files unless an advanced user (which I
can't exactly consider myself) so how I even managed to muck it up at the
start of all this is a mystery.
Thank you, everyone, for all your input. The first thing I'm going to do is
copy all my pictures (my husband and I are avid, amateur photographers) and
most medical articles I found that I've researched and saved. After that,
I'll jot down all the programs I have right now so after the recovery I can
decide which ones to download once more. My nephew showed me his mini cruzer
(?) and I thought it was a great idea for my pictures. From now on, I'll
keep them on these external drives so I can easily share our pictures --
they're no good on my home computer, are they? The same will work for my
articles, too. Keeping the older, dated material archived on an external
source will free up space for the most current material.
You guys not only helped me solve this problem, you gave me ideas to avoid
new ones! I'll let you know how things turn out, but I may be back if I get
stuck, OK?

Bern

PS: I like your signature, peterk!! Is it an original? If not, who's the
author?

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[peterk]

I am glad we were able to offer some help.
Most of what I know I have learned the hard way and by means of news groups
like this.
We all had to start somewhere.
The Signature came from a joke a friend send me long time ago.I liked it .
good luck
peterk

--
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about
the problem

Wow! I'm glad somebody understands this stuff. I try -- I really do.
What
I know I taught myself and I'm not one to run to the forums every time I
have
a problem. No offense, of course. I sing the praises of the forums when
I'm
asked where to go for help. I simply meant that I try to solve situations
myself. How else can I learn? I know when I'm beat, though, so here I
am!

Thanks to you, peterk, I understood everything you said with the exception
of the INCD, but I get the gist. You're half right about the Backup
program.
XP Home DOES include Backup, but I had to hunt for it first. Through a
lot
of looking, I discovered how to install Backup without the use of System
CDs
not included with my purchase. I was reassured that if need be, the
system
could back itself up in the case of a total Recovery. They neglected to
tell
us that at least one of us needed to be a rocket scientist in order to
perform a total recovery "as it was as purchased". LOL LOL
Now that I've vented, I guess I need to retrace my steps and start over.
I
don't understand why the Backup utility allowed me to go to D: drive in
the
first place, but what's done is done. As Neil pointed out, a full disk is
a
full disk, right? I will try to remove what I assume are duplicate files
from the D: drive and hope that I'm not allowed to erase the original
files
of the drive in the process. I understood that the 'partition' HP
described,
DID warn you from even opening certain files unless an advanced user
(which I
can't exactly consider myself) so how I even managed to muck it up at the
start of all this is a mystery.
Thank you, everyone, for all your input. The first thing I'm going to do
is
copy all my pictures (my husband and I are avid, amateur photographers)
and
most medical articles I found that I've researched and saved. After that,
I'll jot down all the programs I have right now so after the recovery I
can
decide which ones to download once more. My nephew showed me his mini
cruzer
(?) and I thought it was a great idea for my pictures. From now on, I'll
keep them on these external drives so I can easily share our pictures --
they're no good on my home computer, are they? The same will work for my
articles, too. Keeping the older, dated material archived on an external
source will free up space for the most current material.
You guys not only helped me solve this problem, you gave me ideas to avoid
new ones! I'll let you know how things turn out, but I may be back if I
get
stuck, OK?

Bern

PS: I like your signature, peterk!! Is it an original? If not, who's
the
author?

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