Hello Leigh,

I think you are allowing much to little space for Windows. Granted it fits
so far and Microsoft says a minimum of 1.5 GB is sufficient, but when you
consider updates, downloads that I'm sure you will be getting eventually
that install on C: drive by default without giving you an option, etc., 3 GB
is simply not enough.

I'm traveling at the present time and don't have my Home edition computer
handy but my XP Pro installation on this computer occupies 5.4 GB of a 10 GB
partition. Note that this is nothing but Windows, minus the My Documents
folder which I've moved to a second drive. None of the programs I've
installed or anything I've created is on C: drive.

I strongly recommend you consider a minimum of 10 GB. More would be even
better. Hard drives are cheap nowadays so space is not as critical as it was
a few years ago when small drives and high prices was the norm and Windows
only needed 400-600 MB of space.

Sven Swanson, Sr.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Jennings" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 7:51 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] HELP! extra large system files in win-XP


Hi

I have just done a system format and upgrade from win98 to xp
I made a partition for the operating system of 3 gig thinking this would be
plenty of space.
now I find that there is only 433meg free on this drive!!!

There are 2 HUGE system files in the root C:\
they are: pagefile.sys (805,306,368meg) & hiberfil.sys (536,383,488meg) Is
this normal?
What can I do to reduce the size of these files, anything?

Part of the reason I did the reformat was to free up some space on C: which
was continually running out of space. If I am stuck with these huge files
it looks as though I will have to go through the whole re-partition,
re-installation again. Understandably I dont want to.

TIA

Leigh Jennings
Hound Heaven Web Design
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