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Since: Jan 12, 2009
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 8:55 pm
Post subject: Files on second hdd?
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My comp was originally assembled with two hard drives, with XP Home loaded
on one of them. When I first looked at the second drive, it had a few files
on them, but I paid no attention to them. At one point, I had problems with
the system, so I reformated the main drive and reinstalled XP on it. During
the reinstall I always made sure to select the main drive when presented
with that option, and everything works fine. I don't remember being given
any options with regard to the second drive, and I suppose the reinstall was
default in that respect. There are again a few files on the second drive
(total about 150mb) , but I have no idea if the files were recreated during
the reformat/reinstall. Looking at the files now, I see that many of them
have to do with "Visual C++ redistrubutable", ie eulas, installers etc.
(Sounds like a programming language to me, but why would I need one? Don't
remember paying for one.) There are also a couple of folders, one with what
looks like a long random name (3a2d457...etc.) I suppose the name is random
to protect it from being mistaken for something else. Inside that folder
there are two more folders, one labeled "amd64" and the other "i386" . I
just read somewhere that "i386" probably contains important files. (My
processor is Intel, not AMD, and XP Home is 32 bit, not 64). The other
folder besides the random name one is labeled "binaries". In that folder
there are just two very small files, one labeled _svdir.VBS (12kb) and the
other " SOAPVDIR.CMD" (1kb). I want to install Ubuntu on the spare drive,
and obviously I am going to burn these files onto a cdr before deleting
them. I don't want to partition the spare drive, just empty it and install
Ubuntu whole onto it. Will my XP Home still work if I delete these files?
Thanks in advance.
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:32 pm
Post subject: Re: Files on second hdd?
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I should make it clear that there are two separate physical hard drives, one
is 10,000 rpm and the other 7200rpm.
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Since: May 2, 2009
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Files on second hdd?
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On Sat, 2 May 2009 20:55:14 -0600, "Francis Marsden"
wrote:
>I don't want to partition the spare drive, just empty it and install
>Ubuntu whole onto it. Will my XP Home still work if I delete these files?
>Thanks in advance.
Make a new directory on your system partition. Copy everything intact
to that directory (can you zip it all into one file?). Then delete it
all from the original location and see what happens.
No doubt nothing will happen. >> Stay informed about: Files on second hdd? |
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 11:31 pm
Post subject: Re: Files on second hdd?
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Yes you can delete them, any folders that have
names that are made up of a long series of letters
and numbers are temporary files and folders and
as such are safe to delete.
Example:
D:\c8b4800dc02b4bb681\ >> Stay informed about: Files on second hdd? |
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Since: Nov 22, 2008
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:23 am
Post subject: Re: Files on second hdd?
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Understood.
Some Windows update will look for the drive or partition that has the most
free space and create those odd looking temporary folder on that drive. It's
not drive speed (rpm) but free space that is the key. >> Stay informed about: Files on second hdd? |
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