I've never had disk space issues before I tried to format and re-install Windows XP. I don't have any games or space hording programs on my computer and only about 4GB of music and photos. When I reboot, it does it like normal and does not ask me what OS to start (I've read that it does that when you have 2 OS's installed) What happened?
2007-03-02 14:19:25 · 7 answers · asked by wake_ryder2 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Here's what is in the add/remove programs section:
Adobe 43 MB
InterVideo WIN DVD 45 MB
J2SE Runtime Environment 98 MB
J2SE Runtime Env Update 120 MB
Muvee Auto Producer 63 MB
Quicktime 51 MB
Sonic My DVD 264 MB
Synaptics Pointing Device 25 MB
Y Messenger 21 MB
2007-03-02 14:38:24 · update #1
Disk degragmenter doesn't mention anything about partitions. It says the volume size is 55GB, used space is 55GB and free space is 146 MB. All I did was re-install Windows XP.
2007-03-02 14:44:14 · update #2
When I actually look at the C: drive using My Computer, there are 7 folders in there:
Anycall 27 MB
Documents and Settings 157 MB
HP 860 Kb
I386 (what is this?) 452 MB
Program Files 277MB
SwSetup (what is this?) 2.72 GB
WINDOWS 448 MB
2007-03-02 15:07:39 · update #3
well... only way this can happen.. is if you have some virus.. which is hiding your hard disks true information....
try some anti virus... or format it again....
2007-03-02 14:35:21 · answer #1 · answered by importer911 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you create partitions before installation. Check the total size of your C drive if it is less than 55GB. If there is another partition which is taking some space and not visible then it needs to be formatted.
control panel > Administrative tools > Computer Management > Disk Management
in the right panel you will see hard and its partitions. right click on unformatted partition to get the menu option of formatting
2007-03-02 14:26:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sounds like you did, but you are not getting the 2 os option at the beginning. a second copy of xp should have only taken up another 5GB of space. my next guess is that when you reformatted the drive, you actually took the original space, unformatted it, and then accidently split it up into another partion with less space and then actually installed on that partion. if you look at disk managment, do you have 1 or 2 partitions, or do you have 1 partition, with an unformatted area on the disk.
2007-03-02 14:36:52 · answer #3 · answered by mjlee105 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 04:20:04 · answer #4 · answered by santella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you re-formatted the drive,. It would of been empty. XP takes around 3gigs. Try running a disk check on the drive thru the options from the my computer screen, see what it says. Make sure you didn't make 2 copies of all your saved item by accident. Then I would try to de-fragment the drive and see what happens.
2007-03-02 14:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by fullerfyed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs and see what's taking up all the space. I'm sure some program in there must be doing it. Otherwise, you could manually look at the size of files within your main hard drive to look for what's filling it up.
2007-03-02 14:26:29 · answer #6 · answered by Justin A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it didn't get replaced with your old program and you have two programs there. Or check your hard drive. Delete some of the things you don't use.
2007-03-02 14:33:45 · answer #7 · answered by 1spurs1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋