Missing Free Space after SP2 installation (WXP-Pro)

[Ichise]

I have partitioned my SATA drive into my D,E,F drives and I put XP Pro on D with 6 gigs free space before the installation.
I set my pagefile to E, but after SP2 was installed my D drive's free space suddenly turned into 199 MB(more or less).
This is insane... from 6 gigs to 199 MB after SP2 was updated.
Help anyone... cant seem to find the missing spaces.
Thx in advance.

[Dfyant]

Have you tried running chkdsk on the drive? Chances are the drive's free space is being incorrectly reported.

Regards,

Chris

..if it ain't broke, I'm determined to fix it..

[The_Dude]

During the install you get an option to save any files needed to uninstall SP2. If you used that option the files were saved to a hidden folder in your windows directory. There should be a hidden folder in the windows directory named $NtServicePackUninstall$. There should be several other folders labeled $NtUninstallKBnnnnnn$ or $NtUninstallQnnnnnn$. These are folders for windows patch's and updates that can be uninstalled. If you are sure you will not need to uninstall SP2 delete the $NtServicePackUninstall$ folder. I wait about a month or so and then delete the other $.....$ folders for the hotfixes etc.

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[The_Dude]

If you want to clear up more space you can turn off system restore, this deletes all the restore points. Then turn it back on and set a point. You can also delete all but the last restore point in disk cleanup.

PC performance buffs have long measured hardware advances using a few simple metrics: Is it faster? Is it bigger? Does it have more blinky lights?