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

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

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

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"Blue" wrote:

| 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!

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Blue wrote:
> 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/ )

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thank you Shenan and Carey!

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Blue wrote:
> > 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/ )
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>