This has got me confused, the partitions I've created on my new 160GB HD are: C: 8.4GB D: 47GB E: 47GB F: 47GB Before I partition the HD I noticed in XP's disk manager that the disk was only showing I had 149GB not 160GB. Since installing XP and downloading updates and drivers the total size of all those files add up to 3.4GB, the problem I'm having now is XP keeps telling me I'm running out of room on drive C: My calculations are telling me I should have at least 4 or 5 GB left. I've looked high and low trying to surf the net and here but I've hit a brick wall. I've gone to system restore and made D: the restore drive location and zero down C: but I've run out of ideas.

First, your hard drive only shows 149GB because of drive manufactures measure bytes differently than everyone else. Seriously. So the hard drive is showing it's correct size. Secondly, your C drive probably is full. 8.4GB isn't much when you add up all the Windows files, program files, swap file, hibernation file, etc. Finally, you can't change where system restore files are saved. You can only change what drives system restore is active for. It sounds like you just disabled system restore on the C drive. You should probably turn that back on. What you need to do is re size your partitions and make the C partition larger. -Ryan Adams Free Computer Tips and more:http://RyanTAdams.com Paid Tech Support: Black Diamond

Hi Ryan Thanks for getting back to my post.Is it possible to increase the size of my partition with out loosing all the data. And I guess my next question is if so do you know of a good free software that would do the job.

Did you partition the drive using FAT32 or NTFS? The difference in file size and size on disk is always present. A file of one K will use one cluster. NTFS cluster size is 4K by default. However, FAT 32 cluster size increases with the partition size. Below is a chart. In addition you have a swap file on the OS partition. That reserves space. Cluster sizes for FAT32 are as follows: 512MB to 8,191MB = 4KB 8,192MB to 16,383MB = 8KB 16,384MB to 32,767MB = 16KB Larger than 32,768MB = 32KB NTFS - All partitions on a PC = 4KB default 8.4GB is enough space for your OS. You should install your programs to a different partiton, which you must not have done. To solve the problem Uninstall your programs and install on one of the other partitions. If you store all your music and picture files in My Documents and you have many of those then you will not have enough space. Look at the link below for help with partitioning. http://partition.radified.com/

Hey, I used Easus Partition manager, it was free, NEVER lost any data and increased my C drive capacity, here is the post: http://www.computing.net/answers/wi... Good luck and they have great support too which helped me through the ordeal. I would suggest to make your partition AT LEAST 50GB, that will give you room to play with and when it comes to defragging. I also installed my progs on the D drive partition so as not to overload C again. You can also resize the other partitions with Easus if you'd like. Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers

I agree with Othehill. Keep a small OS partition and reinstall your software on another partition. Use a program like Ghost or Acronis to backup the OS partition. You can also move your 'My Documents' folder to another partition. Use Tweakui in the My Computer > Special Folders section. You can also move your Page File.

I have been were possible installing programs on D: partition but some programs are C: addicts no matter what I do their going nowhere else. I've downloaded Easeus home edition and for what ever reason it keeps aborting what I'm trying to do. What I have realized though is my partitions are all primary ones. I think what I should have done was made the OS partition primary and the others extended partitions.