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Old 03-31-2007, 05:15 PM
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Re: XP mostly unresponsive, why ???

"Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@sc3.net> wrote
> 15% free, no matter what the size of the disk? That seems odd ...
>
> The C: disk is 111 GB total, only 3.44 GB (3%) free. I'll try freeing up
> some space, and running the defragmenter.


> "Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote
>> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:23:32 -0600, Chris Shearer Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> Hum ... C: disk has 3 GB free, D: disk has 7GB free.
>>>
>>> If the BIOS was resetting to defaults, and the defaults weren't right, I
>>> would expect that I would have to change the BIOS settings each time it
>>> hung
>>> before it would work again?

>>
>> You want about 15 percent free space on C: (assuming that's where Windows
>> resides and boots from).


You need 15% free to run the defragmenter.

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Old 03-31-2007, 05:15 PM