Dumb mistake on WinXP?

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"BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> Well, I really did a dumb thing. I have WinXP Pro on a small partition (C
> drive) and made the mistake of installing OfficeXP on the same 3 gig
> partition.

My C partition contains XP Pro, Office 2000 AND Office 2002 and has only
used about 1.8 GB of disk space.

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"BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
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>
> "Gordon" <me6@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> > "BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
> > newsjKsc.13064$Fo4.183297@typhoon.sonic.net...
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > Well, I really did a dumb thing. I have WinXP Pro on a small partition
> (C
> > > drive) and made the mistake of installing OfficeXP on the same 3 gig
> > > partition.
> >
> > My C partition contains XP Pro, Office 2000 AND Office 2002 and has only
> > used about 1.8 GB of disk space.
> >
> >
>
>
> Geeez, I am using 4.5 gigs and only have about 600 megs free on the
> partition (it is really a 4.87 gig partition). I wonder what is going on?
I
> did have the sasser worm at one point but cleaned it.
>
> I can't imagine what is using all the space. All my documents are on
another
> drive.
>
> I am also not sure why my documents were showing up a second time on the C
> drive. When I moved these files off the drive, all my Office programs did
> not recognize the user.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Bob
>
>

Hibernation can use HUGE amounts of disk space AFAIK, also your pagefile
could be quite big. I have my pagefile on a separate partition (waits for
the flame war to start.....) and My Documents are on another partition. I
don't have Hibernation enabled.....

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"BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
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>
>
> However, I moved a set of files to another drive that appears to be
recently
> used Word and Excel files. Now all Office applications do not recognize me
> as the user. Error messages like Excel has not been installed for the
> current user. But I can't recall where those file should go on the C
drive.
>
> Do you have any idea?
>
> Bob
>
>

Moving Office DOCUMENTS should have no effect on the applications. It looks
like you moved program files. I should move them back! Your Documents should
be in a folder such as C:\Documents and settings\Your User Name\My
Documents. You can move that easily enough to a different partition.

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"Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
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> Gordon wrote:
> > "BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
> > newsjKsc.13064$Fo4.183297@typhoon.sonic.net...
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> Well, I really did a dumb thing. I have WinXP Pro on a small
> >> partition (C drive) and made the mistake of installing OfficeXP on
> >> the same 3 gig partition.
> >
> > My C partition contains XP Pro, Office 2000 AND Office 2002 and has
> > only used about 1.8 GB of disk space.
>
> I'm sorry, but that's physically impossible. Windows XP uses 1.5GB by
itself
> and two lots of Office will take up about 300MB+ each - there is *NO WAY*
> all that could fil on a 1.8GB partition.
>
>

It's worse than that - it is a 4.8 gig partition and about 3.8 gigs are
being used. No other programs or data files are loaded on that partition. I
think I will just do a clean install.

I wonder if I should put office with the rest of my programs on a different
partition?

Bob

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"Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
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> BobK wrote:
> > "Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
> > news:c90bqu$hei$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >> Gordon wrote:
> >>> "BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
> >>> newsjKsc.13064$Fo4.183297@typhoon.sonic.net...
> >>>> Hi Everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, I really did a dumb thing. I have WinXP Pro on a small
> >>>> partition (C drive) and made the mistake of installing OfficeXP on
> >>>> the same 3 gig partition.
> >>>
> >>> My C partition contains XP Pro, Office 2000 AND Office 2002 and has
> >>> only used about 1.8 GB of disk space.
> >>
> >> I'm sorry, but that's physically impossible. Windows XP uses 1.5GB
> >> by itself and two lots of Office will take up about 300MB+ each -
> >> there is *NO WAY* all that could fil on a 1.8GB partition.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It's worse than that - it is a 4.8 gig partition and about 3.8 gigs
> > are being used. No other programs or data files are loaded on that
> > partition. I think I will just do a clean install.
> >
> > I wonder if I should put office with the rest of my programs on a
> > different partition?
> >
> >Bob
>
> I'd strongly advise the purchase of Partition Magic 8 or similar, resize
the
> C partition, maybe 20GB or so, depending on the size of the drive. Then
I'd
> relocate My Documents to the secondary partition (more for security than
> anything else) and install Office - and any other apps - on D.
>
> Basically, my set-up at the moment is thus: -
>
> C - 60GB
> D: - 60GB
> E: - 60GB (this is storage for Drive Image 7 images)
> F: - 20GB (mainly image files)
> G: 1GB (Linux swapfile)
> H: - 60GB (SUSE 9.1)
> I: - 60GB (Fonts - I'm a complete fontaholic and I'm afraid there's no
> chance of me drying out! LOL)
> J: - GDG (General Dumping Ground)
>
> Of course, this is raw disk size, it doesn't take formatting into
> consideration, but you get the idea.
>
>

Yes, I have a 20 gig C=4GB, D=16GB and an 80GB split in half.

C= WinXP & OfficeXP
D= Backup
E= Programs
F= My Documents

I am going reinstall WinXP and Put OfficeXP on E with my other programs.
Then make C 5GB and D 15GB.

I am also setting up a nework with an older computer for a full backup of
the new one.

That has to work.

Bob

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>-----Original Message-----
>Gordon wrote:
>> "BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
>> newsjKsc.13064$Fo4.183297@typhoon.sonic.net...
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> Well, I really did a dumb thing. I have WinXP Pro on a
small
>>> partition (C drive) and made the mistake of installing
OfficeXP on
>>> the same 3 gig partition.
>>
>> My C partition contains XP Pro, Office 2000 AND Office
2002 and has
>> only used about 1.8 GB of disk space.
>
>I'm sorry, but that's physically impossible. Windows XP
uses 1.5GB by itself
>and two lots of Office will take up about 300MB+ each -
there is *NO WAY*
>all that could fil on a 1.8GB partition.
>
>

It could if it was compressed.

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You might try taking a look at your temp folders and you
temporary internet files. They can hog a lot of sapce.
Every time I have problems like that they are usually the culprits.
The temp folders are

C:\temp and
C:\windows\temp
you temporary internet files should be in your profile folder I think.


"BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
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>
> "Gordon" <me6@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:%230ASBnnQEHA.3140@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > "BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
> > news:aMKsc.13067$Fo4.183604@typhoon.sonic.net...
> > >
> > > "Gordon" <me6@privacy.net> wrote in message
> > > news:uTq4IbnQEHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > "BobK" <rk1@usernomics[no spam].com> wrote in message
> > > > newsjKsc.13064$Fo4.183297@typhoon.sonic.net...
> > > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, I really did a dumb thing. I have WinXP Pro on a small
> partition
> > > (C
> > > > > drive) and made the mistake of installing OfficeXP on the same 3
gig
> > > > > partition.
> > > >
> > > > My C partition contains XP Pro, Office 2000 AND Office 2002 and has
> only
> > > > used about 1.8 GB of disk space.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Geeez, I am using 4.5 gigs and only have about 600 megs free on the
> > > partition (it is really a 4.87 gig partition). I wonder what is going
> on?
> > I
> > > did have the sasser worm at one point but cleaned it.
> > >
> > > I can't imagine what is using all the space. All my documents are on
> > another
> > > drive.
> > >
> > > I am also not sure why my documents were showing up a second time on
the
> C
> > > drive. When I moved these files off the drive, all my Office programs
> did
> > > not recognize the user.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hibernation can use HUGE amounts of disk space AFAIK, also your pagefile
> > could be quite big. I have my pagefile on a separate partition (waits
for
> > the flame war to start.....) and My Documents are on another partition.
I
> > don't have Hibernation enabled.....
> >
>
> I have My Documents on another partition. I don't know how to play with
> hibernation or pagefile.
>
> However, I moved a set of files to another drive that appears to be
recently
> used Word and Excel files. Now all Office applications do not recognize me
> as the user. Error messages like Excel has not been installed for the
> current user. But I can't recall where those file should go on the C
drive.
>
> Do you have any idea?
>
> Bob
>
>