Now then I find out why my C drive become Low Disk Space.?

Dear Sir

Pardon me for not understanding what you actually means.

Kindly explain clearly.

Sincerely yours.

haris

There are many that have tried to run XP on C: of such space, and most end up fighting with this issue rather than using the machine.

Next time, just make a big fat C drive and it will be less work.

Bob

If you were wishing to create a partition purely for the OS, what size would you recommend it should be? 10GB?

120GB on one machine and the other is 250GB. I keep organized by using directories. I don't want to be bothered with battling XP about disk space.

Some do want this battle, but they usually don't post about it. They fuss and fume a lot about how big XP has grown and more.

-> About the failing software. Try installing it again, then remove it proper, then install it as you see fit one more time.

You can also use the Search tools to find files a week old on C: to spot where they dropped.

Best of luck,

Bob

and my computer runs fine. If you read this board for a while, you will find many posts about partitioning gone wrong. You can organize your files and folders without a partition.

How do you set up an unpartitioned drive to be managable and well-organized? I am discussing this in my thread about partitioning an 80 gig drive. What tips do you have on organizing an unpartitioned drive?

File what I want where I want to keep things where I can find them.

There are some that have other goals and will try to partition a small place for the OS and divy up the rest into "programs", "data", "mp3" and more, but that's far more work as you can't foresee far enough into the future exactly what each partition size should be.

Furthermore some of these owners lose it all as they resize the partitions.

Bob

You just keep the drive intact and install everything on that drive, but divide it up using directories, like ''music,'' ''antivirus,'' ''games,'' etc.? that would be easier to make directories and sub-directories. That is a good idea. I, along with many others, get the idea that it's a good idea to put Xp on its own partition to keep it intact. But this may be unnecessary it seems.

At one time it saved a few from virus attacks but those days are gone too.

Bob

for the data I download or create. That includes music, photos, documents, updates, etc. I name the folders by what's inside and access through windows explorer.

I owned a computer that had a partitioned hard drive. Back in those days, it was the only way to have a larger hard drive. What a pain. Most programs want to install by default to the C drive. Changing the drive wasn't difficult but, it did cause some conflicts when saving or finding stuff.

On the C drive my current PC I have folders as follows;

Entertainment, with sub-folders inside for Music, Video, Photos,

Games, with sub-folders for each game I install,

Utilities, sub-divided for the utility programs I have like anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-adware, media editing, 3rd party browsers,

Downloads, where I keep all program installation files I download, (like Firefox, AVG, Spybot, etc), and they're sub-divided into appropriate folders. If ever I have to uninstall a program for some reason, I have the downloaded installation file to re-install if I want to.

Work, divided into work related topics,

and so on. But of course, this is just my personal choice of filing. My C/Program Files is already pretty large because of the pre-installed programs that Dell put on, so I try not to add to that. And Documents and Settings I have little control about, except I don't install programs there, but I don't use XP's My Documents at all.

Mark

that a good partition would be at least 10 gigs, maybe more in order to hold all Windows OS files and additional programs. It gives you enough space and the fact that the files are all on one partition will make defragging much less of a pain.

1. I set mine to do so once a week automatically. I haven't run it manually this year.

2. There are a few that claim dramatic speedups after defragmenting. For those I offer this XP BUG. The drive DMA setting silently degrades from DMA to PIO and doesn't show up in the page that you set DMA as PIO, but it is in PIO (poor i/o?) MODE. Here's the article in which the bug is noted -> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx

Do you find it odd to set it to PIO, OK it and then back to DMA then OK it to get it to DMA? I wonder why this is the way it is.

Bob