Re: C:Drive is full

Thanks much John John!
Your suggestions as to the files I could move seems to have worked.
I now have 446MB free space on the C: drive which should last me
till I spring for a new computer (after Vista comes out).
E-Jo

"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok. In any case, the little bit of space that you can reclaim by
moving/deleting stuff in the winnt folder won't really make much
difference to alleviate your problems. You can move/delete the folders
that are named $NTUninstallxxxxxxx$, these contain uninstall information
for hotfixes and updates/patches. You can also move the i386 folder at
C:\WINNT\Driver Cache\. But in the grand scheme of things that won't
amount to all that much, you might save about 100 to 200MB by moving these
items, a stop gap measure at best.

As I see it you have 2 alternatives.

1- Use non destructive partitioning software like Partition Magic or
BootItNG and increase the size of the C: partition. Note that this is not
without dangers, it's best to have a reliable backup of your data before
you try this. It usually goes well and is relatively easy to do, but one
wrong move, or being so unlucky has to have a power outage during the
repartitioning, and there goes the data on the drive!

2- Providing that there is an available drive bay in the computer, buy a
new hard drive and install Windows or clone the current installation to
the drive and use the old drive for storage only.

John

Everett Joline wrote:

No I just have one OS installed. I guess WINXP-2K is just a directory
name used by NVIDIA to hold supporting stuff for the graphics.

WINNT is the directry name MS uses for the operating system files
and the associated uninstall files.

Sorry, John John, for the confusion.
E-Jo

"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Everett Joline wrote:


....I'm afraid to move the operating system
stuff in the WINNT and WINXP-2K folders

Could you tell us what that means? Specifically: "the WINNT and
WINXP-2K folders"? Do you have 2 operating systems installed on the same
partition? What is the "WINXP-2K folder"?

John







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