DR,
It's a 2.54GHz P4 laptop, 40gig HDD, 512Mb ram. It's a fresh WinXP Home re-installation on a freshly formatted NTFS system drive, with no apps installed. SP 1 and online updates were applied. The only folders are the standard ones that the installation and updates create.
Fixed size 800Mb pagefile on a separate FAT32 partition (but on the same physical drive - it is a laptop!). Moving the pagefile around different partitions (I have C and D, both NTFS and E, FAT32) and changing its size makes no difference to the amount of "reserved system space" that's locked up on the system drive.
I checked the issue before and after installing SP1, before and after the on-line updates, before and after the updated drivers for audio and video and before and after installing the driver for the only additional hardware, which is a PCMCIA wireless LAN card. Again, there was no difference.
Before the reinstall this reserved space was not reported by my de-fragger (Diskeeper). Now it is, and it's bigger than the space occupied by the OS.
AA
Last edited by Ausatco; 20th August 2004 at 04:51.