Full Hard Drive

[Guest]

I have a 40GB hard drive with Windows 98 installed. Today I upgraded to XP
and find that my hard drive is almost full. This can't be right. Any
suggestions?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

What was the amount of Free Space available before upgrading
to Windows XP?

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| I have a 40GB hard drive with Windows 98 installed. Today I upgraded to XP
| and find that my hard drive is almost full. This can't be right. Any
| suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Take a look at your temp files. Delete anything older than today.

Look in the root of C:\ for files with extensions ending .chk. If your
computer has ever run a scandisk and found any errors, it could have created
these files in C:\. They are inaccessible to the average user and you can
safely delete them.

 

[Ken Blake]

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I have a 40GB hard drive with Windows 98 installed. Today I
upgraded
to XP and find that my hard drive is almost full. This can't
be
right. Any suggestions?

It's very hard to answer your question, since you've told us
nothing about how full it was before upgrading. How full was it
before, and how full is it now?

Bear in mind that XP's default settings for System Restore (12%
of your drive), Page File, and Hibernation File can take up a lot
of space, but these can be lowered (or eliminated, in the case of
the Hibernation File).

 

[Guest]

Thanks to all.
Before XP, I had about 30GB free on a 40GB drive. After installing, I have
200MB free. The Temp folder is empty. Of course, I am getting a low
storage warning. The computer is working fine but I don't have much room to
update XP or save much of anything. I am looking for some giant file but no
luck thus far.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Try running CHKDSK /R to see if that finds and fixes any problems. Go to
Start->Run and type CMD then click OK to bring up a command window. At the
prompt type CHKDSK /R and press Enter. Answer Yes to have the partition
scanned when you reboot. Restart the computer. CHKDSK will run after the
Windows Logo and will attempt to repair problems.