New XP Install Went Bad
Posting from my Microtel.
I just installed XP on my demon HP and chose new install but it was
too big. It said all my stuff would be lost but it wasn't.
I finally got it down to 3.36 gigs by deleting stuff.
Here's two things that are too big:
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pagefile.sys Properties - 720 MBS - won't delete
hiberfil.sys Properties - 479 MBS
3.36 gigs
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Any ideas?
Thump
I just installed XP on my demon HP and chose new install but it was
too big. It said all my stuff would be lost but it wasn't.
I finally got it down to 3.36 gigs by deleting stuff.
Here's two things that are too big:
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pagefile.sys Properties - 720 MBS - won't delete
hiberfil.sys Properties - 479 MBS
3.36 gigs
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Any ideas?
Thump
Comments
But you can set it not so much.
go to my computer's properties, click advanced then settings.
Go to Advanced tab and click Change
Click Custom Size and set it to 200Mb
Hiberfil.sys is a hibernation file, if you dont use hibernation you may turn it off.
Go to control panel, then go to power options.
Go to Hibernate tab and uncheck "Enable hibernation"
This will free up some space.
Thanks Slash but I made a new primary partition and started over.
I hope i don't need that but when I'm back on a monitor I can see,
I'm going to copy that.
It wouldn't boot to the CD so I tried the 6 floppy install and it didn't
work. I couldn't get into the bios with delete or esc but finally got in
with f1 or f2, I'm not sure which.
I set it to boot from CD first but all I got was "click any key to boot from
CD but that's good enough.
It's installed, let me see what I can do with it.
Thump
oh yeh so it was.... danm
complained about VM I don't think.
Anyway it's done and I'm writing from the new install. I installed the new
OS on a smaller partition first and then restored the demon OS that
was so big there wasn't enough room for another bootable partition.
It was crowded but I got it in and can double boot now that the smaller one is first. I'm not worried but I've used about 2.9 gigs now and only
have about a gig left. I may just keep testing stuff and then restoring
the smaller disk image. I'm running a test on Google desdtop search
and it's on another partition so probably won't crowd this one.
Thanks everyone!
Thump
Alternate Abr.=
Vitural Machine, but that is not what it was used in this case.
Machine but not enough to post back that I wasn't using it.
It didn't complain about the virtual memory, it was just one of the things
I noticed that was "bloated". I abandeoned that OS copy in the end.
I wasn't able to cut down the size enough to use anything else.
Thump