Silly me. Need to boot from disk Win XP.

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I've filled up the HDD on my Laptop and now there's not enough room to
boot. How can I boot from a floppy? Sorry to waste your time by being a
moron. Cheers.

Matt
 
Trouble is. I can't start the computer to clear some space. Is there
another way to clear the space ie without booting?
 
If you are on an XP computer type recovery console in help. You can't access data areas with the recovery console (unless you said you could to windows when it was working - too late know) so look for wallpaper as the safest thing to delete.

Sure you can't boot in safe mode?
 
Trouble is. I can't start the computer to clear some space. Is there
another way to clear the space ie without booting?
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At this point, you can do a couple of things:

1. Remove the laptop's hard drive and slave it in another XP desktop
machine. You won't be able to uninstall programs from it, but you can
delete temporary and Temporary Internet Files, copy off data and delete
it, etc. You will need a laptop/IDE adapter or an external laptop drive
enclosure.

OR

2. Create a Bart's PE disk and boot the laptop with it and delete files
that way.

Obviously, doing either of those things requires knowledge, skill, and
extra equipment. If you don't have what is necessary (and there is no
shame in admitting this), take the laptop to a professional computer
repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA) and have them do
it for you.

Malke
 
I've filled up the HDD on my Laptop and now there's not enough room to
boot. How can I boot from a floppy? Sorry to waste your time by being a
moron. Cheers.

Matt
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If the laptop drive is formatted NTFS forget the floppy - you may be able to
boot the machine but you can't get to the filesystem. Use the XP CD and
boot from it to the recovery console, then delete what files you can get to.
In particular, look for the content.ie5 folders as Internet Explorer can
easily allocate gigabytes to these. Empty them. This can take some time.

If you have no bootable XP CD and the drive is formatted NTFS, you can
download the six-diskette set that will get you to the recovery console.

The problem is that the recovery console has access to a limited set of
directories unless you have made some registry changes while the system has
booted, which you can't do right now.

An alternative is to remove the drive and pop it into a powered USB case,
and attach it to another system. This will let you locate all the
content.ie5 folders and delete them - that should get you nearly a gigabyte
back. Also, locate all temp folders and delete their contents.

HTH
-pk
 
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