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New XP Install Went Bad

ThumpThump
edited December 2004 in Software
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

Comments

  • SlashSlash
    Pagefile.sys is the swap file, you can't delete it.
    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.
  • BODBOD
    turn off hibernate in power properties
  • SlashSlash
    BOD wrote:
    turn off hibernate in power properties
    Wasn't that already said by me?
  • ThumpThump
    :?
    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
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  • BODBOD
    Slash wrote:
    BOD wrote:
    turn off hibernate in power properties
    Wasn't that already said by me?

    oh yeh so it was.... danm
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    Shouldn't the hibernation file mirror the ram size? What kind of video do you have? Is it getting shared ram from your physical ram? If so I'd guess you have 512MB of ram...
  • BODBOD
    hibernation file is uusally the same size as ram
  • SlashSlash
    Tomchu wrote:
    Slash, WTF are you doing blindly recommending a 200 MB page file, if you don't even know how much RAM he has?

    Thump, the page file has to be set to at least 1.0x times your RAM. If you're low on RAM, use 1.5x.
    He has a lack of freespace so it's best for him because his HDD needs a maximum freeup..
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  • ThumpThump
    Tomchu wrote:

    What good is unused space on his hard drive if he can't run certain programs because his Windows complains about VM?
    I guess it's something I don't know yet but what's VM? And it really
    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!
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    Thump
  • FatTurtleFatTurtle
    VM= Vitural Memory or Swap File, Page file.

    Alternate Abr.=

    Vitural Machine, but that is not what it was used in this case.
  • ThumpThump
    James Babb wrote:
    VM= Vitural Memory or Swap File, Page file.

    Alternate Abr.=

    Vitural Machine, but that is not what it was used in this case.
    Thanks James Babb. I was afraid Tomchu thought I was using a Virtual
    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
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  • BODBOD
    disable system resore as well, that eats hdd space like theres no tommrow
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    BOD wrote:
    disable system resore as well, that eats hdd space like theres no tommrow
    Yeah, it took a few gigs of space one my 40GB hard drive. Depending on drive size the amount used varies. I think 10% is the most space it will take.
  • BODBOD
    and when i have a 20GB drive 2Gb is a lot
  • BlueSunBlueSun
    you can udjust it bod..... mine was set to 12% (the max O_O) so i set it to like 2% i might as well just turn it off though......
  • BashBash
    I set mine to 5%, on a 60GB drive, 6GB can be used for better
  • NitricAcid666NitricAcid666
    mine is turned off im not woried about it. anyway an xp install going bad?? i cant see how that could happen lol
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