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pcharouz · 05-21-06

I just instaled a fresh copy of windows on a 15gb partions and I have 904kb left, I instaled it on "E:" could that be a problem? any ideas? I cant even post a screenshot cause it wont open paint.

Edit: now its 4.00kb, and now 0 bytes

**ENTERPRISE** · 05-21-06

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Originally Posted by pcharouz

I just instaled a fresh copy of windows on a 15gb partions and I have 904kb left, I instaled it on "E:" could that be a problem? any ideas? I cant even post a screenshot cause it wont open paint.

Edit: now its 4.00kb, and now 0 bytes

Have you got 2 partitions on 1 HDD? The naming of the Drive wont affect it but it sounds like you have 2 partitions on that one HDD. Have you thought about deleting things you just dont need

**Chipp** · 05-21-06

Expanding page file? Check that first.

pcharouz · 05-21-06

I have the hd's, in my sig. And my windows mesed up like a week ago, so I made a new partion and instaled windows there so I still have my old windows on, it just wont boot. Expanding page file? My page file I think is 2gb

Edit: here is a wierd thing, I am loking at the paging file right now, and its on custom size 2046-4092, but at the bottom of it it says,

"
Total paging file size for all drives
Minimum allowed: 2mb
Recommended: 3070mb
currently allocated: 15839mb
"

on my other 2 drives (c,d) its on "no paging file"

pcharouz · 05-22-06

I disabled the paging file, and now I have 2gb~ left, so everything works now, but its still enoying. The windows folder takes up 15gb but when I select everything in it, and go to properties, I get 95megs. So I am gessing something is wrong there.

**Chozart** · 05-23-06

I'd recommend you make a backup of all important data, and start completely from scratch. Right now you ahve a pretty messed up situation with one working Windows (with some memory hogging program somewhere) and a non-working Windows installation (that's my understanding at least).

Thus, back everything you need up. Re-partition and re-format the entire disks, and do a completely fresh Windows installation on C:\

pcharouz · 05-23-06

I would love to do that, but, I have about 450gb of important data and no where to put it, so I made a new partion on one of the drives and istaled it there, but it didnt let me change it to "c:". Thanks

**Chozart** · 05-23-06

Yikes... 450GB of important data on a RAID0 array... you seriously should think about a backup plan for that. Hard disk failure is always a possiblity (however slight) and in RAID0 the risk is nearly doubled (still slight, but failure always happens at the worst possible moment). Also, if a RAID0 array fails, it is by far less likely to be able to retrieve any data then when a single drive fails (often you are able to retrieve data from a single failing drive, while when a RAID0 array is gone...it's gone!)

I also will have a lot of data soon (video stuff), and I choose for a RAID0+1 solution with four 250GB hard drives, despite the fact that it doubles the cost per GB.

Also, when you hit <CTRL> <ALT> <DEL>, can you identify the process that takes up all the disk space/memory?

pcharouz · 05-23-06

Its not on raid 0, and almoast all of the data is video and music that I spend mamy, many hours downloading(legal stuff of course). So If I lost it, it would be really bad, bad I could get it again, all the important school work and stuff is copied on my lappy. And its not a process, it something in the windows folder, note that I disabled the paging file for all drives

PROBN4LYFE · 05-23-06

You have unwelcome HOSTS...scan for malware and viruses...Trend Micro Online is good...

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