Partion problem

[Guest]

I partitioned my drives about a month ago. One of my drives is a windows XP
drive. I noticed disc space was very low and tried to do disc cleanup. But it
wouldnt run. Stupidly I tried movie some stuff like AIM/MSN Messanger to my
other drive were most of my programs are. The programs either stopped working
or wouldnt move. After deleting almost all necessary programs from my XP
drive I was finally able to get 20 mb of space but it is slowly decreasing. I
even used adaware to make sure there was no junk on it. I have no idea what
to do other than reformatting

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Try System Restore on the More Options section of Disk CleanUp. See if you
can move other things to another partition.

To move programmes you need to uninstall and reinstall through Start,
Settings, Control Panel, Add / Remove Programs. To move Temporary Internet
Files -Start, Control Panel, General tab, Temporary Internet Files,
Settings, Move Folder. To relocate Outlook Express store select Tools,
Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Change.

If your My Documents folder is in your C partition then create a My Files
folder in another partition and copy ( not move ) the contents of My
Documents to your new folder. Then delete the files in your My Documents
folder ( if you encounter problems deleting use Shift + Delete to bypass the
Recycle Bin ).

Where is your pagefile.sys located?

System Restore occupies a lot of space. Is it set to the maximum of 12%?
Right click on My Computer, select Properties, System Restore, D drive and
settings. Reduce to 8% will win something.



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Guest]

I tried to do what you said but my system restore requires that I have at
least 200 mb of space and right now Im at 22 mb and that space is decreasing.
I cannot do disk cleanup either because it freezes up. And my My Documents
folder is not on my XP drive.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Empty your Recycle Bin and then turn off System Restore (see below) and then
try the measures I suggested earlier.

How to turn on and turn off System Restore in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310405&Product=winxp


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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