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Lost Hard drive space
Name: Campy Date: March 2, 2003 at 12:00:29 Pacific OS: Win 2K CPU/Ram: Pent 4 / 512 Mb
Comment:
Thinking that the upgrade to W2K from 98SE was corrupt (it wasn't), I reinstalled it. Everything is working fine, but I lost 4% of hard drive space after the second W2K install. Is there anyway to reclaim that space.
Name: Bill Posters Date: March 2, 2003 at 14:20:22 Pacific
Reply:
4% of what? How big is your hard drive? There is always a small amount of drive space not alloacted.
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Response Number 2
Name: Campy Date: March 2, 2003 at 14:40:52 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for your interest in my question. The total amount of hard drive space available was 75% of my 20GB HD. That was after the first upgrade to Win 2K. After reinstalling Win 2K and nothing else, the hard drive space available was 71%. Shouldn't I have still had 75%? Have some files been duplicated?
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Response Number 3
Name: Merlin Date: March 2, 2003 at 23:11:44 Pacific
Reply:
When you reinstalled Win 2000 it installed as a clean install instead of an upgrade, so parts of windows 98 you had disabled/removed (like games, screensavers, whatever) were added the second time, since Windows 2000 doesn't let you customize the install. Go into the control panel and go to add/remove programs, then click on the button labeled "add/remove windows components" and remove anything you don't want. This may be your problem. Another reason may be that the first time you installed Windows 2000 you used the NTFS file system and the second you used FAT32 or vice versa. Good luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: Campy Date: March 3, 2003 at 07:06:39 Pacific
Reply:
Merlin, I did select NTSF over the FAT32 (which I had), believing it the better. Now I can understand a reason for the space loss. Thank you, Campy
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Response Number 5
Name: BDX1 Date: March 4, 2003 at 08:42:43 Pacific
Reply:
Turn off the Hide system files from folder options. You will then probably see several temp install directories at the system root. Delete those.
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