upgraded to XP form 98SE and my hard drive space is gone! help?

[Guest]

I am hoping that someone can tell me how to recover my hard drive space, I
upgraded to XP SP2 from Win98SE and I wiped my hard drive (Cclean first
which is fat32 at 4.87 GB and after loading WinXP SP2 and NO applications
besides Office XP I am down to only 900MB free space... what is eating up all
my hard drive space, and how can I recover the space?

with 98SE fully loaded with the same programs and more apps I had free hard
drive space at 2GB!
thanks to all who can help!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Apparently, you did not perform a "clean install' correctly!

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| I am hoping that someone can tell me how to recover my hard drive space, I
| upgraded to XP SP2 from Win98SE and I wiped my hard drive (Cclean first
| which is fat32 at 4.87 GB and after loading WinXP SP2 and NO applications
| besides Office XP I am down to only 900MB free space... what is eating up all
| my hard drive space, and how can I recover the space?
|
| with 98SE fully loaded with the same programs and more apps I had free hard
| drive space at 2GB!
| thanks to all who can help!

 

[Guest]

is there a way to have a clean install now?
to reclaim space on my hard drive? I did chose the "upgrade" option when I
installed XP.. thanks for responding!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am hoping that someone can tell me how to recover my hard drive
space, I upgraded to XP SP2 from Win98SE and I wiped my hard drive
(Cclean first which is fat32 at 4.87 GB and after loading WinXP
SP2 and NO applications besides Office XP I am down to only 900MB
free space... what is eating up all my hard drive space, and how can
I recover the space?

with 98SE fully loaded with the same programs and more apps I had
free hard drive space at 2GB!
thanks to all who can help!

Windows XP should take up 800MB to about 1.6GB. Depending on your
PageFile - that could add another 1GB used. Then Office XP likely takes up
200MB to 500MB more space. And System Restores can build up fast as well.
It goes quickly.

I would buy another hard drive if 4.87GB is all you have. I cannot even
imagine the rest of the specs on that computer.

If you use something like "SequoiaView" and scan your drive (the one with
the issue) - do you find any large visible areas that you could remove? (
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ )

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Yes, regroup and proceed with a clean install.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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"Blue" wrote:

| is there a way to have a clean install now?
| to reclaim space on my hard drive? I did chose the "upgrade" option when I
| installed XP.. thanks for responding!

 

[Guest]

thank you Shenan and Carey!

Windows XP should take up 800MB to about 1.6GB. Depending on your
PageFile - that could add another 1GB used. Then Office XP likely takes up
200MB to 500MB more space. And System Restores can build up fast as well.
It goes quickly.

I would buy another hard drive if 4.87GB is all you have. I cannot even
imagine the rest of the specs on that computer.

If you use something like "SequoiaView" and scan your drive (the one with
the issue) - do you find any large visible areas that you could remove? (
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ )