Low Disk Space, System Store Disabled

[Katonahjoe]

Rather than reply to each response, I will respond here as follows:

First, I have tried many of the suggestions and I ran CCleaner and am now up
to 461MB free space of 37.2 GB Capacity and System Restore is activated
again. Thanks to all.

I have a 40GB hard drive with 256 MB Ram, Pentium 4 1.8gb processor using
Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2. I don''t know how to tell how
hd is formatted. I believe I have only one partition. I also have a zip
drive, DVD drive and CD-RW drive.

Before my original post, I had used Add/Remove to remove Dell Picture Studio
and a couple minor, small programs I had installed like Spyhunter. I was
only up to about 90MB free space.

Some of my settings are:

1. Automatic Update On - I have the OE update Gerry cited.
2. System Restore - was turned off due to Low Disk Space, now activated and
set at 9%. System Restore shows only one restore point which was this
morning at 8:46am which is after the Low Disk Space error messages started.
3. Temporary Internet Files - cleaned by CCleaner, set at 128MB
4. Recycle Bin - was at 10%, now at 5%. I dont use Norton AV, am using
Windows One Live Care because Norton Internet Security had corrupted my OE
mail folders.Last week, I removed Norton and added a new identity in OE
which works fine.
5. Turned off Hibernate function as Shanen suggested.
6. Cookies - I excluded this box when I ran Ccleaner since my cookies were
not functioning. What is the correct setting to allow persistent cookies so
I can go sites will remember my User ID and passwords for those sites I
choose?

I will run Disk Defragmenter next and remove the Uninstall files you guys
mentioned if still have a problem.

 

[DL]

You still have too little free space, ideally you should have 15% of your HD
capacity, in your case 3.7gb.
With your current free space the sys will probably run slowly and some
components will not function.

You need to either add a slave drive and reinstall stuff on this, and move
data to this, or buy a larger primary drive.
256mb ram is a minimum for winxp.
Set your tmp internet files to 50mb
Properties of your C drive will show the File sys (eg ntfs/fat)

PS you should have responded to the origonal post rather than starting a new
thread.

 

[Katonahjoe]

You still have too little free space, ideally you should have 15% of your
HD
capacity, in your case 3.7gb.
With your current free space the sys will probably run slowly and some
components will not function.

You need to either add a slave drive and reinstall stuff on this, and move
data to this, or buy a larger primary drive.

I will ask for help from IT dept at work on how to do this.

256mb ram is a minimum for winxp.
Set your tmp internet files to 50mb

I will try this setting of 50 mb. Also will remove Office XP Media Content.

Properties of your C drive will show the File sys (eg ntfs/fat)

My system uses ntfs format.

PS you should have responded to the origonal post rather than starting a
new
thread.

Sorry for the mistake.

 

[Enkidu]

Rather than reply to each response, I will respond here as follows:

First, I have tried many of the suggestions and I ran CCleaner and am now up
to 461MB free space of 37.2 GB Capacity and System Restore is activated
again. Thanks to all.

I have a 40GB hard drive with 256 MB Ram, Pentium 4 1.8gb processor using
Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2. I don''t know how to tell how
hd is formatted. I believe I have only one partition. I also have a zip
drive, DVD drive and CD-RW drive.

Since the disk is nominally 40GB, its usable capacity is around 37.2GB,
which agrees with numbers above. I'm pretty sure that you have only one
disk partition.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Since the disk is nominally 40GB, its usable capacity is around
37.2GB, which agrees with numbers above. I'm pretty sure that you
have only one disk partition.

Just a clarification here: this has nothing to do with "usable" capacity. A
so-called 40GB drive is actually only 37.2GB.

All hard drive manufacturers define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, while the
rest of the computer world, including Windows, defines it as 2 to the 30th
power (1,073,741,824) bytes. So a 40 billion byte drive is actually a little
over 37GB. Some people point out that the official international standard
defines the "G" of GB as one billion, not 1,073,741,824. Correct though they
are, using the binary value of GB is so well established in the computer
world that I consider using the decimal value of a billion to be deceptive
marketing.

 

[Enkidu]

Just a clarification here: this has nothing to do with "usable" capacity. A
so-called 40GB drive is actually only 37.2GB.

All hard drive manufacturers define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, while the
rest of the computer world, including Windows, defines it as 2 to the 30th
power (1,073,741,824) bytes. So a 40 billion byte drive is actually a little
over 37GB. Some people point out that the official international standard
defines the "G" of GB as one billion, not 1,073,741,824. Correct though they
are, using the binary value of GB is so well established in the computer
world that I consider using the decimal value of a billion to be deceptive
marketing.

Thanks Ken! I did know that but felt too lazy to do the sums. .

My bosses go a funny colour when I tell them that the 146.8GB disks that
they buy are really 137GB and that if they buy 8 of them and I RAID 5
them that they will only get 7 * 137GB usable, and then there's the File
System overhead (admittedly only a few percent).... They see their
expensive disk shrinking as I talk.....

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks Ken! I did know that but felt too lazy to do the sums. .

You're welcome. Glad to hear you knew it, but I hope the clarification was
useful to others here.