Re: Win XP takes more space on SATA than IDE
- From: "Edge30" <edi_llerena@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:07:24 -0500
Thanks for your help.
Following your procedure I found the problem.
There two files pagefile.sys and hiberfi.sys these file are taking most of
the space.
I checked the web and found that both files are dependant on the size of the
RAM which is different in both PCs. The PC with IDe has 512MB while the
onewith the SATA has 1.5GB of RAM.
pagefile is calculated by windows by default as aprox. 1.5 times the RAM
size!!! so... for the SATA this is more than 2GB. Hiberfil.sys is the same
size as the RAM so another 1.5GB are used. So this two in total are more
than 3.5GB for the Pc with the SATA (1.5GB Ram) but only 1.1GB for the PC
with IDE (512MB Ram).
Now, for the solution.
I never use Hibernation, so I disble it and automatically recovered 1.5GB.
For the pagefile.sys, I read that "if you have enough RAM then you don't
need this feature". I guess 1.5GB is enough memory (or not??) so I disabled
it and deleted the pagefile.sys. This gave me back another 2 GB. In your
experience, may this be Ok?
Regards
e.
"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Are the drives formatted as FAT32 or NTFS? Have the drives been
> compressed?
>
> The figures for the system on the IDE drive look wrong. You are in effect
> saying
> that Windows XP is taking up 2 gb , which does not sound credible.
>
> To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure
> that
> you can see all files. Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View,
> Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and
> folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files " is
> unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should
> also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known file
> types"
> is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details is
> selected
> and then select View, Choose Details and check before Name, Type, Total
> Size, and Free Space.
>
> How large is your hard drive? How much free space on each
> drive / partition. To get this information whilst in Windows Explorer
> place
> the cursor on each drive in turn, right click and select Properties.
>
> FileSize -a useful tool for use with Windows Explorer when investigating
> how
> disk space is being used.
> http://markd.mvps.org/
>
> The download link is not obvious. Click the here in the two sentences of
> the
> web page accessed through the link above. "I can't count the number of
> times
> someone has asked for this. So here is a module you can install that shows
> a
> Folder Size column in Explorer."
>
> --
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Gerry
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> "Edge30" <edi_llerena@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hello everybody, hoe someone could help me.
>> I installed Win XP SP2 on two PCs, one has a SATA drive partitioned as
>> C:10GB and D:60GB. The other one has an IDE HDD with the same
>> partitioning.
>> I installed the system on C on both PCs.
>> In the one with the IDE drive almost 8GB are left as free space while in
>> the one with the SATA drive lestan 5GB are ledt (which are not enough for
>> my applicactions).
>> Can anybody tell me why may this happend? what am I doing wrong? how can
>> I solve this??
>>
>> Regards
>> e,
>>
>
>
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