Yes, quite normal.  I would suggest a minimum partition of 6 GB for an XP
system.  Best idea would be to reformat and start over with a larger
partition.

You can eliminate the hiberfil.sys by going to
   Control Panel / Power Options / Hibernate
and remove the check-mark from "enable hibernation".  Of course this means
you can't use the hibernate feature.

Carl

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leigh Jennings
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 10:51 PM
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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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