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transferring folder contents between installs
It is normally in the :\Documents and Settings\<user-name>\Local Settings folder on an XP system. If you have files there you want to keep, move them to another folder. If your XP partition/drive is getting low on free space, this could present a problem while attempting to install some WU offerings.

Backup/restore a Windows XP partition?
Ralph Fox ralphfral...@xtraxtra.coco.nznz.undo-echo.invalid alt usenet offline-reader forte-agent modified On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:08:44 +0000, in article <mg855ugfp5a73ad7tduc2ggr80idu4s...@4ax.com>, Geoff Bayes wrote: I've just installed Agent on a new XP partition and I'd like to copy the contents of a folder in

Windows 98 system folder empty
The initial boot files will be in the ME partition, leading to the Windows XP folder in another one. (I hope - if he mixed XP and ME in one partition the only safe course is to format and clean install). Things will get in a bad muddle if you do not retain that structure. Edit the boot.ini file in that boot/ME

How to delete XP partition
This only needs to contain a few small files (listed in someone else's post), and the Windows or Winnt folder can be in a logical partition elsewhere. You set that during installation. My XP C:\ contains less than 300KB of system files. Make the main XP partition FAT32 if you need full access to it from Linux,

Dual boot screw up!!
Ben Armstrong [MSFT] ben...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public virtualpc Install the DOS virtual machine additions and use shared folders (read the help the following: How can I move or copy a large file (about the size of 3-4 floppies) from the VPC partition (a dos partition) to the WIN XP area on a laptop.

optimum HD partitions?
I was asked where I would like to install the new partition. I put it at the front of the drive before the XP partition. I now how Mandrake and XP on the Look around. try clicking the tutorial folder and index.html If I were you, I would create about a ~4gig free partition on a disk, pick an Expert install,

How do i change the location of the 'temp' folder?
Tip make sure you xp partition is at least 9.4 gb Make sure you 95b,98,me, are at least 4gb Reboot into windows 98se. Temporally Disable boot manager. Copy the win9x folder to the d drive. Copy the i386 folder to the e drive. Reboot with 98se bootdisk. Change directory to c:\windows directory Copy win.com win.co$

Running FS9 on a compressed XP partition ???
The answers posted so far are about how to move the My Documents folder. In my opinion, a very worthwhile thing to do if you have another partition or drive. Extra worthwhile if you have limited space on your XP partition. If this change is implemented on a per user basis, the amount of files removed from

I'm considering setting up a dual-boot of Me and XP...
... have mentioned you want to have adequate space for XP, the paging file, Hibernation (if you use it), System Restore points, Temp folders and of course your apps. I use a 6GB partition for my XP partition and it seems to be adequate. One large advantage to Partition Magic is it's ability to resize partitions

Delete temp files and folders?
I want to make the partitions for several things (XP Pro on one, swap file on another, data on another, etc) Thanks for the help "LX" Even though you are going to put the pagefile on a separate partition, you should still use at least 5 GIG for the XP partition. Reason...1.5 to 2 GIG just for the Windows folder

PartitionMagic Question
You will likely wish to format the XP partition as NTFS which you can't do with the Windows 98 Startup floppy anyway. f) Once the C drive is formated you can "D:\My Documents" From Outlook Express go to Tools->Options->Maintaence Tab->Store Folder and change the location to a suitable folder on D drive as well.

XP partition size
Whenever I try to write from Vista to a folder on the XP partition I get an access-denied error. Now I wouldn't have been surprised at problems writing from XP to folders on the Vista system partition (although I haven't tried that yet and I have no problem accessing Vista folders (not junction points) by network

Why Windows XP partition keeps running out of space?
My reference to the _restore folder on XP was in fact the _restore folder in SVI. My fault. Will "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message news:eCDve8kKBHA.1408@tkmsftngp05... Yes Will, I know about the XP SVI folders but what I don't understand is your reference to a _restore folder on your XP partition

Access denied TO XP-partition folders from Vista on dual-boot ...
You may be limited in what you can do with the installer (as in, you may be limited to a clean install only after deleting the existing XP partition... this will vary by what HP has "done" to the standard NT installation code) or you may even be able to select your existing XP partition and perform a "Repair" which

windows partition
Mark eagleref...@netscape.net netscape public beta feedback mail mcom beta feedback mail I have a dual boot of Windows ME and XP. I have Netscape 6.1 installed on the ME partition and 6.2 on the XP partition. I need help on moving the local mail folders to the partition with XP, I can not find the files and if I

Partition Size for XP?
3GB is partitioned for windows XP and 3GB for Windows Me (I dual boot) The other 500MB is for data files etc. All i have on my XP partition is XP, Office XP, Norton Antivirus and WinDVD and I had to delete Office 2000, Publisher 98, and several programs and file folders to gain enough free space to do a defrag.

Sharing my NTFS partition on LAN
Is it Ok to delete these old and/or empty folders? I don't know if some of them might be used on an ongoing basis by the system. Thanks for any comments. raf You can go round deleting absolutely anything you like, XP will try to stop you from doing anything really stupid. Now, if you take a partition image and put

Partition advice and help needed !!!
wouter van zuilekom wouter....@zuilekom.nl alt os windows xp I have Windows XP on a PC with 4 partitions. Suddenly I have on three of the partitions (except the Win XP partition) folders with the name: .inf They contain the same files as the root of the specific partition with this difference: Where there are

Dual boot W98/XP - which XP version?
You can delete the Windows folder and then from System tools, Advanced, Edit, remove the line referring to the unwanted boot option. My suggestion would be to backup important data and do a clean install. You can boot with the XP CD and when it finishes scanning for previous versions, select the partition where XP

can't boot Windows XP on partition 2
First of all is there supposed to be a system volume information folder in each partition, or only the partition which XP is installed in. There seems to be one in my partition that ME runs from too. Can I safely delete any of them? Those in my XP partition seem to contain a lot more files in them.