[Tacocaster]

I have a 40GB HD and I've got 17 GB free. I have 9 GB of music and music videos. A GB or so for Neverwinter Nights. I'll say 2 GB of program files, but that is probably pushing it. So that adds up to 12 GB's. Why do I only have 17 free? I'm running XP Pro but the computer came with Home edition installed on it. Someone mentioned a hidden partition or something like that, with it running XP home. regardless I would like to save a couple of files, my music stuff, and then reformat as to get everything Dell off the computer. Any suggestions as to how to go about doing this? I've heard of programs that overwrite every part of the HD with random 0s and 1s. Is this the best way to go? Advice? Do's, don'ts? Suggestions. Thanks.

 

[eddie5659]

Hiya

I have a HP pc, and they have a seperate partition that is the recovery disk. Its all the same harddrive, but about 4GB is taken up on that.

If you go to Windows Explorer, does it mention a Recovery drive?

Regards

eddie