First off, like a lot of people around here I recently encountered a BSoD which required me to reinstall XP. I also had some troubles reinstalling but Sager sent me a .pdf describing the process in full. If you think it would help I wold be more than happy so send it to anyone, just pm me with your email address.
OK, onto the problem. After I had XP up and running, I noticed that a lot of my data (as I assumed would happen) had been deleted. However not all. Anything in My Documents/Music/Pictures, Start Menu, and Desktop had been deleted. But all the software on the C Drive was still there. I wanted to start fom a clean slate so I went to remove programs and none of them showed up... so I just deleted them manually. After I started to reinstall stuff I noticed a lot of missing disk space. I went into to C drive and with a calculator I added the size of all the folders inside together and I got an estimate of roughly 17.5GB. Its probably a little more, but in the C drive properties it tells me I have 29.3GB of used space. That's a big difference! Even if my math is a little off I know the software I have on there doesn't take that much space.
Also my old profile is still in Documents and Settings but I cant delete or view it, apparently I dont have permission even though I'm the only user and I have Administrator permissions.
If anyone knows whats wrong and/or how I can fix it, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
OK, onto the problem. After I had XP up and running, I noticed that a lot of my data (as I assumed would happen) had been deleted. However not all. Anything in My Documents/Music/Pictures, Start Menu, and Desktop had been deleted. But all the software on the C Drive was still there. I wanted to start fom a clean slate so I went to remove programs and none of them showed up... so I just deleted them manually. After I started to reinstall stuff I noticed a lot of missing disk space. I went into to C drive and with a calculator I added the size of all the folders inside together and I got an estimate of roughly 17.5GB. Its probably a little more, but in the C drive properties it tells me I have 29.3GB of used space. That's a big difference! Even if my math is a little off I know the software I have on there doesn't take that much space.
Also my old profile is still in Documents and Settings but I cant delete or view it, apparently I dont have permission even though I'm the only user and I have Administrator permissions.
If anyone knows whats wrong and/or how I can fix it, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
