Win XP question

[goslac]

I updated win 98SE to Win XP Pro. This is on a 2 Gig partition. I have another partition for all my programs. However, I found out that I only have 130 MB free on this partition. What happened? I thought that 2 GB was enough.
Is Win XP supposed to take so much space, or did I screwed something??

Thanks for your help

Goslac :)

[avih]

yes, xp takes too much HD space.
my xp is not more than 2 months old, and already consumming 2.5G of of my 4G partition dedicated to the OS only. (whenever i have the choice, i choose disk d for installations).

:(

cheers

[goslac]

OK, I think I am goona have to format everyhting...
By the way, I saw that you have a TNT2 M64 video card. I have the same one and tsince I installed Win XP, the screen recolution seems not to be as good as before. My DivXs look bad though I know they should look great. I downloaded the last nvidia driver and it is not resolving the problem.

Thanks

Goslac :)

[avih]

yes, you're right, with latest drivers it has terrible problems in full screen (both 16/32 bpp, different resolutions etc). i tried few drivers but no good. strange enough, the only driver that shows ok in overlay is the one that comes with win xp (default one), BUT it's not good enough for me, as i think it doesn't have good opengl...

a solution i found to work, is to use ffdshow with it's resize option, and then it looks ok even in full screen.

cheers
avi

ps.
it COULD be that i have an outdated bios.. but i'm lazy to upgrade it atm ;)

[theReal]

OK, I think I am goona have to format everyhting...

Get yourself a copy of Partition Magic 7 - it is, as the name says, magic! You can move and resize partitions without loosing data, plus a whole lot more stuff you thought you couldn't do with your harddrives.

[goslac]

Yeah, I already had the idea, but I don't know what's wrong, I am missing some file called xmnt2001. I know that a known problem. If anybody can send this file to me I would really appreciate it. The file is in /system32 directory

Thanks

Goslac :)

[TRILIGHT]

Use the "System Restore" utility. You can access it from the "Help and Support" section or by typing C:\WINDOWS\system32\Restore\rstrui.exe at the Run prompt.