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hard drive full after upgrading vista

  1. #1


    dprizal Guest

    hard drive full after upgrading vista

    when i installed my uprgrade to vista it took up all the space on my hard
    drive. how do i get my hard drive space back it is like i have two copies of
    vista on my C: drive. my hard drive is 160gb and is full, i have 3gb left.
    --
    dbp



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  2. #2


    Michael A. Covington Guest

    Re: hard drive full after upgrading vista

    "dprizal" <dprizal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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    > when i installed my uprgrade to vista it took up all the space on my hard
    > drive. how do i get my hard drive space back it is like i have two copies
    > of
    > vista on my C: drive. my hard drive is 160gb and is full, i have 3gb
    > left.


    Two copies of Vista? Delete one of them, obviously. Can you tell us more?



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  3. #3


    XS11E Guest

    Re: hard drive full after upgrading vista

    dprizal <dprizal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

    > when i installed my uprgrade to vista it took up all the space on
    > my hard drive. how do i get my hard drive space back it is like i
    > have two copies of vista on my C: drive. my hard drive is 160gb
    > and is full, i have 3gb left.


    My Vista install is 12gb with all the installed programs such as MS
    Office, Quicken, etc. etc..

    What else is on your harddrive?


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  4. #4


    JW Guest

    Re: hard drive full after upgrading vista

    If you upgraded from XP have you deleated the XP folder yet?

    "dprizal" <dprizal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:CD6C5FBF-F484-4CB6-A556-3B2EBDEE7C5C@microsoft.com...
    > when i installed my uprgrade to vista it took up all the space on my hard
    > drive. how do i get my hard drive space back it is like i have two copies
    > of
    > vista on my C: drive. my hard drive is 160gb and is full, i have 3gb
    > left.
    > --
    > dbp




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hard drive full after upgrading vista

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