Re: Hard Drive Space after reinstall

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Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.

The reason I did a reinstall was I was told that it was a good idea to do it
about once a year to keep things clean and running fast. My computer was
taking several minutes to boot up and shut down, and the reinstall seems to
have sped that up.

While I still have the several folders from before my reinstall in my
"Program Files" folder from the "WINDOWS" folder, the programs themselves
don't seem to be there as I get an error saying that the programs failed to
initialize and to reinstall them.

Is my computer going to run faster if I reinstall Windows again, this time
erasing my old partion? (by doing what you're calling a clean install) How do
I do that?

Thanks so much for helping me out.

"Ken Blake" wrote:

> In news:B16BC75F-0B03-400F-B6D3-1A6AC829418A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Jeremy <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
>
> > Yes, I have a single partition on my hard drive. I don't know
> > if I
> > did a clean installation (by deleting the old one), I might
> > have just
> > used the old one. I have also noticed that all of my program
> > files
> > are all still in my WINDOWS folder. Does that mean that I
> > didn't do a
> > clean installation?
>
>
> If your old programs are still installed, clearly you didn't do a
> clean installation. And if you didn't do a clean installation,
> it's no surprise that you got no disk space back.
>
>
> > Should I?
>
>
> I can't answer that from where I sit. I don't know why you did
> any reinstallation at all? What problems were you having? What
> did you hope to accomplish?
>
> But my personal view is that it's a very rare situation in which
> a clean reinstallation is desirable.
>
>
> > Also, what are the advantages of doing partitions on my hard
> > drive?
>
>
> There are arguments both for and against having multiple
> partitions, although most people would recommend at least two
> partitions for most people. However, in my view, with such a tiny
> drive you shouldn't consider more than a single partition.
>
> --
> Ken Blake
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
> > "Ken Blake" wrote:
> >
> >> In news:F54F3141-3D30-4B62-9806-2F563775103F@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> >> Jeremy <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> >>
> >>> I recently reinstalled XP on my 3 year old laptop, but
> >>> afterwards I
> >>> noticed that out of 20G, I still only have about 8G
> >>> availible.
> >>> Is
> >>> there something I can do to get more of my hard drive space
> >>> back?
> >>
> >>
> >> Is this on a 20GB drive with a single C: partition, or is some
> >> of
> >> that 20GB drive perhaps in a different partition?
> >>
> >> Did you do a clean installation (delete the existing partition
> >> by
> >> pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one) or some
> >> other
> >> kind?
> >>
> >> Did you install any applications or just Windows?
> >>
> >> Did you restore the data you backed up before reinstalling
> >> Windows?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> >> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>
.

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