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[Moose]

After using my recovery disc to install XP back onto my system,I keep getting a little box from my tray that pops up and says:
LOW DISK SPACE
You are running very low disk space on LOCAL DISK (C:).
To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files,Click here

So then I went into my Defrag and this is what that box tells me:
(C:) NTFS Capacity-5.09GB Free Space-78MB %Free Space-1%
(D:) NTFS Capacity- 144GB Free Space-132GB %Free Space-%91

How can this be when this is a brand new machine that I just bought? Did I not install that recovery CD correctly? How do I change this around?

[Moose]

Update:
Every time I get that pop up message,it shows my MB's getting lower and lower.Usually I have to restart my computer.

[Berton]

It would be my observation that, if it is an OEM/Brand computer, the small partition should be D: and hold the Restore/Recovery files provided by the builder of the computer. C: should be the main partition that Windows and programs are installed on.

If it were mine and had the CD or DVD I'd use a program such as GPARTED to wipe out the partitions then boot to the Recovery disc and start fresh. When the Recovery disc is available there is no pressing need to have the smaller partition.

And it's not necessarily an NTFS formatting issue, can happen with FAT32 formatting except Win2000, WinXP, WinVista and Win7 cannot create partitions larger than 32GB.

[Moose]

Well Thank you but that still don't help me because I would not know what I was doing if I downloaded that sort of program.