Hello,
My daughter has a laptop with XP but it is Vista Compatible. I tried to load Win 7 and it would hang expanding files. By the way I was booting off the CD/DVD drive. I repartitioned the hard drive and formatted it during the installation process but it still was throwing an error message (error 0X80070001). I finally reloaded XP and then tried to install Win 7 again and it worked. The issue. When I looked at the hard drive usage and the install had used 116 gigs of hard drive space. At that point I had not loaded any files or programs.
When I got to the point to select where to load Win 7 I selected the hard drive which was partitioned. I was told I should have unpartioned the drive and that would have forced the install to partition the hard drive and then format it.
When I looked at each folder under the C:\ drive all of them combined did not add up to more than 25 Gig. Where is all that disk space being consumed? I really do not want to re-install win 7 because I would have to deal with reactivating the license. I am not sure if that is a big deal or not.
Thank you in advance,
Athan
My daughter has a laptop with XP but it is Vista Compatible. I tried to load Win 7 and it would hang expanding files. By the way I was booting off the CD/DVD drive. I repartitioned the hard drive and formatted it during the installation process but it still was throwing an error message (error 0X80070001). I finally reloaded XP and then tried to install Win 7 again and it worked. The issue. When I looked at the hard drive usage and the install had used 116 gigs of hard drive space. At that point I had not loaded any files or programs.
When I got to the point to select where to load Win 7 I selected the hard drive which was partitioned. I was told I should have unpartioned the drive and that would have forced the install to partition the hard drive and then format it.
When I looked at each folder under the C:\ drive all of them combined did not add up to more than 25 Gig. Where is all that disk space being consumed? I really do not want to re-install win 7 because I would have to deal with reactivating the license. I am not sure if that is a big deal or not.
Thank you in advance,
Athan