Windows XP Pro Ate my Hard Drive- No space left to run programs

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I have a 6 GB HD. After installing Windows XP Pro and then
the SR-1 upgrade my hard drive is full. How much space
does Windows XP take? Are there so setup files or old
Windows 2000 Pro (former OS) that can be deleted. I had
2.3GB free before I installed Windows XP.

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Sorry, but a 6 gig drive is far too small for XP to work effectively, and
the 2.3 gigs you had left was used up by XP. Hard drives are cheap (cost
less than XP!). Even if you delete your old 2000 files, the drive is too
small.
 
2GB just for C:\WINDOWS
1GB to allow XP to "breathe"

If you had done a "clean instal" then you should still
have 3GB free.


| a 6 GB HD...

....is tiny by today's standards.


Also that equals 6,000,000,000 (decimal), which would be
reported by Windows explorer as 5.59 GB (binary).

See the article

http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v30/vic30.htm
by ~~Vic Ferri, titled...
"The Hard Drive Size Discrepancy: When a Byte Isn't a Byte"

It has an online converter.


In any case, read this

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

"Prefixes for binary multiples"
- International Electrotechnical Commission [Dec 1998]

Jan

-----Original Message-----
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I have a 6 GB HD. After installing Windows XP Pro and
then the SR-1 upgrade my hard drive is full.

How much space does Windows XP take?

Are there so setup files or old Windows 2000 Pro (former
OS) that can be deleted. I had 2.3GB free before I
installed Windows XP.
 
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