Problem with wife eee 901 PC

Andybtsn · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:00

Hi guys,

My wife is having a problem with her Asus eee 901 PC. I'm unsure of this but the eee's have two physical drives, one 4gb, the other 16gb.

The local C drive is showing total size 3.75gb and 121mb free!
The D drive is 15gb totaland 14.9 free!

Now I presume Windows XP is clearly installed on C:\ to take some of the space but nothing else is really installed yet there is no space on it.

Is there any program that I can use to identify what is taking up all the space?

There's hardly any apps on it and browsing the C: drive there are no big folders neither. I'm a bit puzzled as I have a similar setup on my eee PC too

Any help appreciated

neil_g · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:05

3Gb is a bit small for an XP install..

in fact my test machine on my desk at work, the windows folder alone is 3.46Gb and its a fresh default install.

Andybtsn · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:12

Ah right, didn't know it took that much up

I thought Asus did this smaller drive for the installation of XP, bit of a bind as I think I'm going to have reformat the whole thing now

PiKe · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:14

Make an nlited xp install.

Andybtsn · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:35

PiKe said:
Make an nlited xp install.

How does one do this?

PiKe · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:37

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

You can remove individual components you don't want/need.

Kriist · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:38

3Gb is a bit small for an XP install..

in fact my test machine on my desk at work, the windows folder alone is 3.46Gb and its a fresh default install.

nope, its almost a must to nlite an xp install on these machines. i have a 2gb surf eeepc somewhere and had a 1.1gb xp install on it, with a 16gb SD card as the storage/programs location. so it's not that small tbh.

neil_g · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:43

furr doos, never had to work with that little disk space to be honest..

Kriist · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:46

yea spose but these were some of the first netbook about when they were going for cheap and cheerful with enough space to surf the net.

Andybtsn · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:50

Should there be any problems installing Win XP on the 16gb drive? I didn't know if it was a slower drive

siuko · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:51

How to nlite xp for eeepc

I have used this to great affect.

Also read the other articles on the eeepc wiki about moving all your temp files etc to another drive to free up the max amount for XP.

bledd · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:57

just nlite it

you need to keep the 'manual setup' for installing over usb, unless you have a bootable cd drive instead.

the smallest usable xp install I had took up about 300mb (not including the pagefile)