Alan2273 Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 A friend brought me a Dell computer, saying it kept on blue screening (BSOD).I switched it on and after about a minute the lovely BSOD.As I had no other parts to test the computer out, I took the hard drive out and hooked it up to an IDE/SATA/USB connector and hooked it up to the wife's computer running Win 7.In disk Management it said there was only 1.9GB's free on the hard drive.I heard a long time ago that to run XP you need 10% of the hard drive free.So I rang my friend to tell him what I had found out and were there any files he wanted backing up as a fresh install was best.He said there was nothing important, (it was an 80GB hard drive with 1.9 GB'S free), so god only knows what was on there.After a format and fresh install, he is now a happy bunny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 It would have been interesting to see whether deleting just up to 10% worth of files would have fixed the BSOD - or whether the problem was deeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 I did think about trying that but I did not particularly want to open any of his folders as they might have contain personal information, that is why I formatted it, then I ran Prime 95 for two hours with no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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