XP pro installation space

[Mani]

hello,

I have just installed XP on a 5gb partition which was previously a system
partition and formatted thro xp setup, and the install is taking up 4gb of
space !
If I add together all the folders like windows,programs,my docs they come to
2gb,
so what is taking up the rest of the space(2gb)? and why do MS say XP needs
only 1.5 gb?

TIA

[Poprivet]

Mani wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have just installed XP on a 5gb partition which was previously a
> system partition and formatted thro xp setup, and the install is
> taking up 4gb of space !
> If I add together all the folders like windows,programs,my docs they
> come to 2gb,
> so what is taking up the rest of the space(2gb)? and why do MS say XP
> needs only 1.5 gb?
>
> TIA

1.5G for a minimal install. And nothing else installed. Rest of the space
is allocations for XP Restore Points & swap file mostly plus anything you
installed that allocates reserved space. The default allocations for both
can be changed & Restore Points can even be turned off.
But, within a very short time you're going to find that incredibly too
little room! If space is that tight, time to think about a larger drive.
You'll end up having to do disk cleanup every few hours in the space you
have there unless it's a single-application machine and never touches the
internet.


Pop`

[John Barnett MVP]

The rest of the space is more than likely taken up by system restore and
page file. 5GB is rather low for XP and the installation of other programs.
I'm running a copy of XP on a virtual machine with 14GB of space allocated.
I initially tried the virtual machine software with 8GB but, after just a
few programs were installed (nothing large) and XP had updated it had
already consumed 6GB of space, leaving only 2GB spare.

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"Mani" > wrote in message
...
> hello,
>
> I have just installed XP on a 5gb partition which was previously a system
> partition and formatted thro xp setup, and the install is taking up 4gb of
> space !
> If I add together all the folders like windows,programs,my docs they come
> to
> 2gb,
> so what is taking up the rest of the space(2gb)? and why do MS say XP
> needs
> only 1.5 gb?
>
> TIA

[Mani]

Thankx pop -that was useful to know :)

"Poprivet" wrote:

> Mani wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I have just installed XP on a 5gb partition which was previously a
> > system partition and formatted thro xp setup, and the install is
> > taking up 4gb of space !
> > If I add together all the folders like windows,programs,my docs they
> > come to 2gb,
> > so what is taking up the rest of the space(2gb)? and why do MS say XP
> > needs only 1.5 gb?
> >
> > TIA
>
> 1.5G for a minimal install. And nothing else installed. Rest of the space
> is allocations for XP Restore Points & swap file mostly plus anything you
> installed that allocates reserved space. The default allocations for both
> can be changed & Restore Points can even be turned off.
> But, within a very short time you're going to find that incredibly too
> little room! If space is that tight, time to think about a larger drive.
> You'll end up having to do disk cleanup every few hours in the space you
> have there unless it's a single-application machine and never touches the
> internet.
>
>
> Pop`
>
>
>