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Old 05-19-2007   #1 (permalink)
dprizal


 
 

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.
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dbp

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Old 05-19-2007   #2 (permalink)
Michael A. Covington


 
 

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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Old 05-19-2007   #3 (permalink)
XS11E


 
 

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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Old 05-19-2007   #4 (permalink)
JW


 
 

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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