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In news:B16BC75F-0B03-400F-B6D3-1A6AC829418A@microsoft.com,
Jeremy <Jeremy@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> Yes, I have a single partition on my hard drive. I don't know
> if I
> did a clean installation (by deleting the old one), I might
> have just
> used the old one. I have also noticed that all of my program
> files
> are all still in my WINDOWS folder. Does that mean that I
> didn't do a
> clean installation?
If your old programs are still installed, clearly you didn't do a
clean installation. And if you didn't do a clean installation,
it's no surprise that you got no disk space back.
> Should I?
I can't answer that from where I sit. I don't know why you did
any reinstallation at all? What problems were you having? What
did you hope to accomplish?
But my personal view is that it's a very rare situation in which
a clean reinstallation is desirable.
> Also, what are the advantages of doing partitions on my hard
> drive?
There are arguments both for and against having multiple
partitions, although most people would recommend at least two
partitions for most people. However, in my view, with such a tiny
drive you shouldn't consider more than a single partition.
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Ken Blake
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> "Ken Blake" wrote:
>
>> In news:F54F3141-3D30-4B62-9806-2F563775103F@microsoft.com,
>> Jeremy <Jeremy@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>>
>>> I recently reinstalled XP on my 3 year old laptop, but
>>> afterwards I
>>> noticed that out of 20G, I still only have about 8G
>>> availible.
>>> Is
>>> there something I can do to get more of my hard drive space
>>> back?
>>
>>
>> Is this on a 20GB drive with a single C: partition, or is some
>> of
>> that 20GB drive perhaps in a different partition?
>>
>> Did you do a clean installation (delete the existing partition
>> by
>> pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one) or some
>> other
>> kind?
>>
>> Did you install any applications or just Windows?
>>
>> Did you restore the data you backed up before reinstalling
>> Windows?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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