C drive is on limit?

[babe]

have 80GB size limit on hard disk before I installed a
new Windows Xp program in my compter. I could not back up
coz of the size limit which was approximately 28GB was
installed programs, files and folders. The last time I
check I had 52GB free space and when I installed new
windows XP ntfs file system I only have 32,000MB+ on my
hard drive why is that? How can I retrieved the old files
with 28GB+? Anyone know

 

[Ross Durie]

The way to convert from FAT32 to NTFS is "convert volume /fs:ntfs". Did you
use this command??

 

[t.cruise]

Unless you are going to ghost/make an image of your entire drive: If you
have the CDs for your software, there is no point to backing up all software
files and folders. You can't restore most Windows programs by restoring the
files and folders of the program, the Windows Registry Keys and Strings
would be missing, and the programs probably wouldn't function. Software can
always be reinstalled from CDs, it's backing up data files from those
programs that you should be concerned with. e.g. if you use Quicken, you
wouldn't backup the entire program and its folders, you'd just backup the
data file for the account that you created in Quicken. You wouldn't backup
Outlook Express, you'd only backup the *.dbx files which contain the
messages. Then you'd install Quicken from the CD, and then you'd import the
data file for your account which you had backed up. Example 2: After you'd
reinstalled Windows, you'd import the Outlook Express .dbx files to restore
your messages. Most Windows programs, aside from simple apps, work in that
manor. It's the data files that are important to backup, not the programs
and their folders, again, unless you intend to ghost/make an image of your
entire drive.