Re: XP DRIVE SPACE PROBLEMS

IMHO it is a very bad practice to do any drive re-arrangement (partition
resize,de-frag) on a failing drive (or one with corruption caused by problems
that have not been totally repaired). You may cause an acceleration of the
failure or further the corruption. Image now, while there is any life in the
drive. fix problems after you have an Image. FIX other system problems or
move the drive to a working system (as a non-boot drive), Yes, you can make a
Boot drive image on another system and have it bootable on return to the
original system (Example: Notebook computers using cheap IDE adapters).


On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:22:48 GMT, "Malcolm Austin"
<malcolm.austin4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
yes your correct I could do with a bigger HD. But my MS Office CD's
have
some unreadable files so it would be difficult to move forward and reinstall
everything.
I'll wait till my office buys me Office 2007, because I would find it
difficult to justify
the cost on my own :-(

So far I've moved my Outlook Express files to another drive as well as my
Internet
Explorer files. That helped for a bit. I've also tried with Partition
Magic to move the
C & D sizes around, but it cannot for some reason (get error message)

But I've just deleted all the Uninstall directories and that has cleared a
850 meg of
room which should take me out of harms way for quite a while. The biggest
directory
was for a Service pack at 324 meg!

Malcolm...


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"Malcolm Austin" <malcolm.austin4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
for various reasons I am running out of room on my main drive which
contains Windows.

Looking in the directory listing I note that I have 125 directories that
contain un-install data.
Mostly these are the KB numbered update files. Now it seems to me that
if
everything is
running well that these could be deleted now.

So questions are: -

1/ Can these directories be deleted?
2/ Is there a specific method to do this or can I just go in via
Win/Explorer and hit the
delete key?

Thanks,
Malcolm



The folders could be deleted but don't take up
significant space.


Looks like you need a larger HD
*however* if you do want to make at least a bit more room on your drive...
you can reduce your system restore point to maybe 500 megs or so...
by default, Windows has it set *way* higher than is needed



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