Re: Freeing up space on C partition

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To the contrary--10-20 gigs of free space on a documents partition is plenty. It has 40% free space. To break it down for you, 10 gigs free space on a 28 gig document partition isn't going to slow down my computer. Many hard drives are larger today--yes I realize that. Its just that this isn't going to be the cause of a problem here.

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007
"Jdr" <jd.ross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:er6DYfEDKHA.4004@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Still it 10-20 GB free space is - these days, rather insufficient for
good performance of PC.


"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:59251E72-9BCC-4BA1-BD6C-D4F8FA3751D0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I didn't say I had 10-20 gigs on a partition--I said that was the amount of free space I had on the other partition (the documents partition).

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007


"Jdr" <jd.ross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uyH9lXqCKHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Paul,
Considering present requirements of Windows OS (XP & Vista)
having partition of 10-20 GB is rather insufficient. Think of 100-200 GB
rather. Hard drives these days are cheap and worth to invest . That would
improve significantly your PC's performance.



"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FCCF988F-7AA7-4B4C-B7B5-246F6E7B8C35@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The other partition has 10-20 gigs of empty space but its my documents partition and I'd hate to just shrink that---if there is a problem or some hidden file taking up lots of space I'd rather detect and delete it than shrink my docs partition. Besides, this whole exercise is being done, to run the Windows Easy Transfer wizard (to back up my Office 2007 settings, since they threw out the 2003 save my settings wizard), which is telling me I need to free up 9 gigs of space, to transfer 67 megs of data.

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007

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