I've been trying to clear out my folders on my C drive.
I have a 40GB drive, but only have drive C set to 4GB partition.
I've used partition magic, but only have version 6 and does not seem to work with XP and/or Norton av 2002.

I only have about 500mb of spare space on C:, even after deleting lots of things. I think Windows it clogged up, but am retisent to do a fresh install (although this is an option).

Any advice on clearing things out? My system32 folder is nearlt 800MB, which seems huge to me. The registry also totals about 80MB. What options do I have?
If I do a fresh XP install, what is the best way of going about this? I don't mind re-installing my programs, but need to keep the data on partition D:.

Any help would be great thanks.

My system32 folder is 850MB. That seems about the normal size.


Roger

you should have at least allowed 6gig for c ,you can try and put as much of your work as you can on d,uninstall programmes and reinstall on d. or you could make yor partition bigger

Thanks. I need to re-adjust C:, but partition magic is not happy under XP. Does anyone know if this is resolved under v7?

I have used Version 6 on XP fine. I now have version 7. I guess it has been improved for XP.


Roger

Yes v7.0 is XP compatible. However do backup your C drive first! (also a good idea to backup D: too) As when I tried to sesize a part in XP with v7.0 I ended up losing all the data on my E drive, due to an error.
I would recommend only working from the Part Magic DOS based utilities and not trying to do it from Windows.
But if you are installing your appz to the same Partition as your OS (XP) then you need at least 6GB or more & at least 3-5 for XP alone.
THis would also be one way to get more room on your C drive ...uninstall some appz and move/install them to another drive. I also believe you can set a max size for the Registry in XP, however I don't know that I would recommend doing so!


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Cheers Hoss, I'll have a go moving as much as I can across to D. I only install apps on d: anyway, so will need to have a good clearout!

Thanks all

One thing i did which took which my system32 folder size down to 470MB's was to delete the content's of the dllcache folder which contains a backup of all the system dll's so that windows can automatically restore them with out asking for the XP disc. I done this a couple of moths ago and my system work's fine. And you can always put them back again by puting the xp disc in a drive opening command prompt and type: SFC /purgecache

Thanks, but I cannot find a dllcache folder in XP?

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache


Roger

Good job DIABLO you beat me to it. Thats correct by default winxp stores your backup dll's in the folder dll cache. You can safely delete these files.
If you don't use hibernate, disable it .
(uses as much harddrive space as you have ram). Also if you don't use system restore, I would suggest disabling this as well. (free's up a ton of space depending on how long you have had winxp installed.) Also delete temp internet cache and any temp folders files.

It seems partition magic 6 cannot cope with drives formatted as NTFS under XP. If you havn't got any of these it should work ok.

I don't have this folder, so presume it has been deleted by some cleanup program in the past?
I will certainly disable system restore, didn't realise it take up so much space. I have goback anyway, which is ususally much better.

Thanks all

Yes, you do have that folder. It's usually a hidden, system folder. You have to go to Folder Options --> View --> Select "Show hidden files and folders" --> then uncheck "Hide protected operating system files".

Also, the amount of disk space that System Restore uses can be adjusted by going to System Properties --> System Restore tab --> Click on the settings buttons --> Then adjust the slider for the amount of disk space to use. In my opinion, System Restore is alot better and reliable then GoBack. It's kind of redundant to install another program (and take up even more disk space) just to do what the OS already did fine. But do whatever you want.

OK thanks qwerty, I'll have another look for it.
I find goback better as it can recover file by file if you want. Perhaps system recovery can do this, I've not really looked into it much.

arr fouond that pesky dllcache!!

cheers all