Do I have XP installed twice?

[Lance]

Hello, can someone please help me I have two hard drives and I try putting all my stuff on drive D because it's 120 gigs and drive C is only 20 gigs, so on drive C it's telling me now I can't defrag the drive because I only have about 2% left on there. I checked all the programs I could and really only have Microsoft office on that drive and a few other things that came with my printer. I can't figure out what's taking up all the room. Is there a way to see if a friend of mine accidently installed XP twice on my machine when he was trying to fix it? I'm thinking maybe that's why I don't have any room left on my C drive? Thank you very much



Lance

 

[sir]

if your friend installed XP twice you'd probably get a dual boot screen up - a command line style interface asking you if you want to boot from windows or windows (in your case).

Sounds more like one of those drives used to be a recovery partition. When you go into my computer and go into the root of the drive (C:\ and D:\) do you have a "windows" directory in both partitions?

 

[Lance]

if your friend installed XP twice you'd probably get a dual boot screen up - a command line style interface asking you if you want to boot from windows or windows (in your case).

Sounds more like one of those drives used to be a recovery partition. When you go into my computer and go into the root of the drive (C:\ and D:\) do you have a "windows" directory in both partitions?

Hi, thanks for responding, ummm I checked and there is only a windows folder in the C drive, hmmmmm that makes sense what you're saying though, I just dont know why there is no more room on here. I don't get any kind of dual boot screen like you said either, well thanks.

 

[sir]

Whats probably happened is windows was reinstalled onto the recovery partition, and then everything is being installed/saved to it. maybe repartiton it so C: is your full hard drive instead of a 20GB partition

This thread might help:
http://www.computerforum.com/113857-hard-drive-partitioning.html

This might help clean up files:
http://www.dupkiller.net/index_en.html

when you have anything in my documents, pictures, music, videos its using up your drive space as is any applications you may have. make sure you start saving things to the other partition if you're not gonna carry out any partition resizing...

Hope that helps!