I'd recommend adjusting the partition, using something like Partition Magic.
Although: I think that the f-disk that comes with XP will allow you to
resize partitions "on the fly" without losing data. Maybe some of the
"Nospin" folks can give some more info on this.

William Pike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Jennings" <[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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