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More info?)
To me it sounds more likely you did a parallel install and have ended up
with two copies of XP on the same drive and in the same partition. But
without actually at your Windows Explorer it's difficult to tell!
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
In Loving Memory of our dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
"eepp" <eepp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:16CEAD41-BE54-4346-B920-4849F1E4BA3C@microsoft.com...
> Cari
> I will look at this when I get back to my computer. Temp files are easy
> to
> get rid of. Do you think it doubled all of my files. Like stated before,
> I
> had a 50% room, now only about 1-5%. It would make sense that everything
> was
> doubled and can I find these to delete one set?
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> It will delete Temporary Files, Temporary Internet Files etc.
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>> Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
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>> In Loving Memory of our dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
>>
>> "eepp" <eepp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9107A8E0-EAE9-4AAF-AFE3-D6ED0E2C14F9@microsoft.com...
>> > Not sure of what Disk Cleanup will do. Please explain
>> >
>> > "riverdogs05" wrote:
>> >
>> >> The operative word is non-destructive which I believe makes a new copy
>> >> of
>> >> things without overwriting the original. Try Disk Cleanup.
>> >> "eepp" <eepp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:9B9E5AE3-9C54-4B7F-B89C-F295ADD6D322@microsoft.com...
>> >> >I had to perform a system recovery (non-destructive). Everything
>> >> >appears
>> >> >to
>> >> > be fine but now my 150g hard drive is nearly full! I know it was
>> >> > only
>> >> > about
>> >> > 40-50% before I had the crash.
>> >> >
>> >> > How did this happen? How can I get rid of the files that probably
>> >> > got
>> >> > doubled?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for the assistance.
>> >> > HP 370n MCE 2004 XP
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