Howdy,
Got a bit of a question here regarding HD + XP. My computer has a 320gig HD which I partitioned into 3 parts. The C drive has 10 gigs and is meant to have the OS only as well as a couple of programs, and the rest of the space was supposed to be used to whatever the other programs that I install throw at it.
Now, I just discovered that I am using maybe 50% of the space (including hidden files if all of it is added up) yet it also states that I have roughly 1.5 gig left that I can use. I've cleaned out temp files, restoration points and whatnot else that you can think of and scoured through all hidden files, but no matter how I twist and turn it there's a couple of gigs missing still.
I'm kinda curious if XP happens to reserve space to something else besides restoration points or whether there is something else which I have overlooked. Defragging the drive is a bit of a pain now since I use Diskeeper and although being a really nice program and all, it insists for some silly reason that at least 20% of a drive's space must be free, and currently it refuses to fully defrag this drive.
The HD isn't damaged in any way either as far as I can tell.
Got a bit of a question here regarding HD + XP. My computer has a 320gig HD which I partitioned into 3 parts. The C drive has 10 gigs and is meant to have the OS only as well as a couple of programs, and the rest of the space was supposed to be used to whatever the other programs that I install throw at it.
Now, I just discovered that I am using maybe 50% of the space (including hidden files if all of it is added up) yet it also states that I have roughly 1.5 gig left that I can use. I've cleaned out temp files, restoration points and whatnot else that you can think of and scoured through all hidden files, but no matter how I twist and turn it there's a couple of gigs missing still.
I'm kinda curious if XP happens to reserve space to something else besides restoration points or whether there is something else which I have overlooked. Defragging the drive is a bit of a pain now since I use Diskeeper and although being a really nice program and all, it insists for some silly reason that at least 20% of a drive's space must be free, and currently it refuses to fully defrag this drive.
The HD isn't damaged in any way either as far as I can tell.