XP pro installation size

[Guest]

Hello,

I installed XP pro onto a 6 Gb partition and the free space left on it is 1
Gb !
Adding up the three folders created by the install comes to 1.7 Gb.
So where has the remaining disk space gone ?
Should I be worried about this. Also I did format the partition before.

Thankyou so much for any informative replies.

 

[BillW50]

Hello,

I installed XP pro onto a 6 Gb partition and the free space left on
it is 1 Gb !
Adding up the three folders created by the install comes to 1.7 Gb.
So where has the remaining disk space gone ?
Should I be worried about this. Also I did format the partition
before.

Thankyou so much for any informative replies.

The rest might be in the "System Volume Information" folder. Hard to
find a utility that will let you in there. Amust Disk Cleaner v1.0 will
though and it is free.

http://www.amustsoft.com/disk-cleaner/

That "System Volume Information" is all or mostly "System Restore"
backups. You can adjust this between 0% to 12% of the disk space I
think.

 

[Rock]

Hello,

I installed XP pro onto a 6 Gb partition and the free space left on it is
1
Gb !
Adding up the three folders created by the install comes to 1.7 Gb.
So where has the remaining disk space gone ?
Should I be worried about this. Also I did format the partition before.

Thankyou so much for any informative replies.

I recommend using at least a 20GB partition for XP. That said, look at the
free utility, TreeSize, from JAM software which will give you a view of
where the space is being used.

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

 

[Andy]

Look for hidden files such as pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys.
dir /ah c:\
or
dir /s /ah c:\