Guest roboz Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on as it said I didnt have enough disk space. some advice, please.
Guest poatt Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 RE: disk space required With the cost of HD being low. I would not think about installing XP on anything smaller then 20gigs. Yes it will load/install on the 9gigHD. But you will soon run out of space. Too soon. But if I remember right MS recomends 10 gig just for the XP OS. I have a lean OS with only XP on the C drive plus direct work programs.ie; AV program,Firewall,Printer and CD burn. And with those and the constant temp files XP creates it is constantly setting at 9gig useage. I have a 320gb HD that cost me around $90. You can get like a 120gb HD for far less. "roboz" wrote: > i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. > some advice, please.
Guest Tony Meloche Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required roboz wrote: > i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. > some advice, please. I don't think this is the advice you were hoping for, but it is sincerely the best advice: Buy a larger hard drive, or a whole new computer. XP Pro, Office and SteadyState will just about - if not completely - shoot that hard drive's available space. Remember, the drive needs a few gigs of "playing around" room, too. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----
Guest Erik Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required On Sep 9, 7:50 pm, roboz <ro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. > some advice, please. Get a new HD. If your HD is more than 75% full, bad things start to happen.
Guest Curt Christianson Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required As Poatt, Tony, and Erik have already said, buy a larger HD. *If* you could squeeze all three onto a 9GB HD, there would not be enough room for the pagefile(also known as Virtual Memory or swapfile too), or enough room to do a simple defrag. of your HD. -- HTH, Curt Windows Support Center http://www.aumha.org Practically Nerded,... http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm "Erik" <jaywalkersunite@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1189390940.788145.311370@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... | On Sep 9, 7:50 pm, roboz <ro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: | > i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and | > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. | > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this before | > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it on | > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. | > some advice, please. | | Get a new HD. If your HD is more than 75% full, bad things start to | happen. |
Guest roboz Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required the reason i was asking this question was because the pc is for a community centre and we do not have money for hd upgrades. The pc we have was donated with XP pro installed, and we were looking to install steadystate for its lock down capabilities. Looks as though we cant use the pc? "Curt Christianson" wrote: > As Poatt, Tony, and Erik have already said, buy a larger HD. *If* you could > squeeze all three onto a 9GB HD, there would not be enough room for the > pagefile(also known as Virtual Memory or swapfile too), or enough room to do > a simple defrag. of your HD. > > -- > HTH, > Curt > > Windows Support Center > http://www.aumha.org > Practically Nerded,... > http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm > > "Erik" <jaywalkersunite@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1189390940.788145.311370@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > | On Sep 9, 7:50 pm, roboz <ro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > | > i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and > | > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. > | > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this > before > | > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn > it on > | > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. > | > some advice, please. > | > | Get a new HD. If your HD is more than 75% full, bad things start to > | happen. > | > > >
Guest Tony Meloche Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required roboz wrote: > the reason i was asking this question was because the pc is for a community > centre and we do not have money for hd upgrades. The pc we have was donated > with XP pro installed, and we were looking to install steadystate for its > lock down capabilities. Looks as though we cant use the pc? If the lockdown capability is essential, then I would say "No", sadly. It was like yesterday (truthfully, just a small handful of years ago) that a 9 gig hard drive was considered *mongo* storage space. Today, it is hopelessly small. I've shuttled a half-dozen scenarios through my head in the last few minutes, trying to think of how you can get what you want with that hard drive - I came up empty. If the OS, an office suite, and Steadystate are all essential, the hard drive is just too small. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----
Guest roboz Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required thanks, anyway tony. looks like have to seek out some donations for upgrade to hdd. And i remember my first pc with 20MB hdd!! "Tony Meloche" wrote: > roboz wrote: > > the reason i was asking this question was because the pc is for a community > > centre and we do not have money for hd upgrades. The pc we have was donated > > with XP pro installed, and we were looking to install steadystate for its > > lock down capabilities. Looks as though we cant use the pc? > > > If the lockdown capability is essential, then I would say "No", > sadly. It was like yesterday (truthfully, just a small handful of years > ago) that a 9 gig hard drive was considered *mongo* storage space. > Today, it is hopelessly small. > > I've shuttled a half-dozen scenarios through my head in the last few > minutes, trying to think of how you can get what you want with that hard > drive - I came up empty. If the OS, an office suite, and Steadystate > are all essential, the hard drive is just too small. > > Tony > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- >
Guest LVTravel Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required Instead of Office 2003 you may want to consider Open Office http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html as its replacement. Smaller footprint. Instead of Adobe reader 8 use Foxit reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm, again much smaller footprint (hard drive use) and much faster to load. Go to a local computer store and see if they will donate a small usable hard drive (20 GB or so) that they have pulled from a traded or discarded machine. That may be the ticket to get the machine up and running. Ask the members of the community center if they happen to have an old hard drive laying around (I have drives from 30 - 100 GB that I don't use anymore stacked on my spare part shelves to build machines to donate.) Have some of the members of the community center chip in to purchase a small drive. "roboz" <roboz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F2783742-BD7B-4FC7-9426-7C515FFE1679@microsoft.com... >i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this > before > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it > on > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. > some advice, please.
Guest Tony Meloche Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required LVTravel wrote: > Instead of Office 2003 you may want to consider Open Office > http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html as its replacement. Smaller > footprint. Instead of Adobe reader 8 use Foxit reader > http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm, again much > smaller footprint (hard drive use) and much faster to load. > > Go to a local computer store and see if they will donate a small usable hard > drive (20 GB or so) that they have pulled from a traded or discarded > machine. That may be the ticket to get the machine up and running. Ask the > members of the community center if they happen to have an old hard drive > laying around (I have drives from 30 - 100 GB that I don't use anymore > stacked on my spare part shelves to build machines to donate.) Have some of > the members of the community center chip in to purchase a small drive. All very good suggestions, Roboz. Even with a 20 gig hard drive, you'd be pushing the envelope, but at least that would be *doable* for what you want. Tony > > "roboz" <roboz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:F2783742-BD7B-4FC7-9426-7C515FFE1679@microsoft.com... >> i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and >> steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. >> Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this >> before >> with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it >> on >> as it said I didnt have enough disk space. >> some advice, please. > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:30:00 -0700, roboz <roboz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > thanks, anyway tony. looks like have to seek out some donations for upgrade > to hdd. And i remember my first pc with 20MB hdd!! Just to put it into perspective, you can buy a 60GB drive for as little as $60-70, maybe less if you look around. > "Tony Meloche" wrote: > > > roboz wrote: > > > the reason i was asking this question was because the pc is for a community > > > centre and we do not have money for hd upgrades. The pc we have was donated > > > with XP pro installed, and we were looking to install steadystate for its > > > lock down capabilities. Looks as though we cant use the pc? > > > > > > If the lockdown capability is essential, then I would say "No", > > sadly. It was like yesterday (truthfully, just a small handful of years > > ago) that a 9 gig hard drive was considered *mongo* storage space. > > Today, it is hopelessly small. > > > > I've shuttled a half-dozen scenarios through my head in the last few > > minutes, trying to think of how you can get what you want with that hard > > drive - I came up empty. If the OS, an office suite, and Steadystate > > are all essential, the hard drive is just too small. > > > > Tony > > > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- > > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups > > ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- > > -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Unknown Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: disk space required Don't waste your time with a 9gb drive. "roboz" <roboz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F2783742-BD7B-4FC7-9426-7C515FFE1679@microsoft.com... >i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this > before > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it > on > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. > some advice, please.
Guest roboz Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: disk space required thanks for all the advice from everyone, although ken blake missed the point that we don't have money to spend, even $60. But the suggestions fron LVTravel et al have been very constuctive and enlightening. Thanks once again for your help - I'll see if we have some other pc's with larger hdd's which can be swapped. "LVTravel" wrote: > Instead of Office 2003 you may want to consider Open Office > http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html as its replacement. Smaller > footprint. Instead of Adobe reader 8 use Foxit reader > http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm, again much > smaller footprint (hard drive use) and much faster to load. > > Go to a local computer store and see if they will donate a small usable hard > drive (20 GB or so) that they have pulled from a traded or discarded > machine. That may be the ticket to get the machine up and running. Ask the > members of the community center if they happen to have an old hard drive > laying around (I have drives from 30 - 100 GB that I don't use anymore > stacked on my spare part shelves to build machines to donate.) Have some of > the members of the community center chip in to purchase a small drive. > > "roboz" <roboz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:F2783742-BD7B-4FC7-9426-7C515FFE1679@microsoft.com... > >i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and > > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. > > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this > > before > > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it > > on > > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. > > some advice, please. > > >
Guest Curt Christianson Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: disk space required Good luck roboz, and post back if need be. -- HTH, Curt Windows Support Center http://www.aumha.org Practically Nerded,... http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm "roboz" <roboz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:262B3C3E-C512-441F-AAF2-1165F37F47CE@microsoft.com... | thanks for all the advice from everyone, although ken blake missed the point | that we don't have money to spend, even $60. But the suggestions fron | LVTravel et al have been very constuctive and enlightening. | Thanks once again for your help - I'll see if we have some other pc's with | larger hdd's which can be swapped. | | "LVTravel" wrote: | | > Instead of Office 2003 you may want to consider Open Office | > http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.1/index.html as its replacement. Smaller | > footprint. Instead of Adobe reader 8 use Foxit reader | > http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/down_reader.htm, again much | > smaller footprint (hard drive use) and much faster to load. | > | > Go to a local computer store and see if they will donate a small usable hard | > drive (20 GB or so) that they have pulled from a traded or discarded | > machine. That may be the ticket to get the machine up and running. Ask the | > members of the community center if they happen to have an old hard drive | > laying around (I have drives from 30 - 100 GB that I don't use anymore | > stacked on my spare part shelves to build machines to donate.) Have some of | > the members of the community center chip in to purchase a small drive. | > | > "roboz" <roboz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message | > news:F2783742-BD7B-4FC7-9426-7C515FFE1679@microsoft.com... | > >i have a 9gb hard disk on which i want to load XP pro, office 2003 and | > > steadystate, as well as adobe reader 8, avg. | > > Is the hard drive large enough for these programs - i have done this | > > before | > > with a pc, and when i loaded steadystate it would not allow me to turn it | > > on | > > as it said I didnt have enough disk space. | > > some advice, please. | > | > | >
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