Re: upgraded to XP form 98SE and my hard drive space is gone! help?



Apparently, you did not perform a "clean install' correctly!

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"Blue" wrote:

| I am hoping that someone can tell me how to recover my hard drive space, I
| upgraded to XP SP2 from Win98SE and I wiped my hard drive (C:)clean first
| which is fat32 at 4.87 GB and after loading WinXP SP2 and NO applications
| besides Office XP I am down to only 900MB free space... what is eating up all
| my hard drive space, and how can I recover the space?
|
| with 98SE fully loaded with the same programs and more apps I had free hard
| drive space at 2GB!
| thanks to all who can help! :)
.



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