Re: Win XP takes more space on SATA than IDE
- From: "Edge30" <edi_llerena@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 01:09:25 -0500
That all was very helpful. My problem is solved now.
Thanks a lot for your help.
E.
"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It is not desirable to have no pagefile!
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
>
> To increase you free space on your C select Start, All Programs,
> Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and
> remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be
> quite
> large.
>
> You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and
> Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove redundant files you
> should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All Programs,
> Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
>
> It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on
> your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb.
> Right
> click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore.
> Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find the
> slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you
> get to the
> Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.
>
> --
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
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>
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> "Edge30" <edi_llerena@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eHclmjzDGHA.1384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>> news:ewVg%23azDGHA.2040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 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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