That's silly - just use the whole 70Gb to install everything. Trying to
stick XP in only 10Gb is not reasonable.

"Edge30" <edi_llerena@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everybody, hoe someone could help me.
> I installed Win XP SP2 on two PCs, one has a SATA drive partitioned as
> C:10GB and D:60GB. The other one has an IDE HDD with the same
> partitioning.
> I installed the system on C on both PCs.
> In the one with the IDE drive almost 8GB are left as free space while in
> the one with the SATA drive lestan 5GB are ledt (which are not enough for
> my applicactions).
> Can anybody tell me why may this happend? what am I doing wrong? how can I
> solve this??
>
> Regards
> e,
>
>