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by nhoerner

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I need to free up some hard drive space on a O/S partition. Unfortunately there are no extraneous programs to uninstall. Can I remove old service pack and hotfix uninstall files?

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by curlergirl

There's no reason not to remove them as long as you're reasonably sure you'd never want to uninstall the SP or hotfix. What I usually do is just move them somewhere else, just in case of the _remote_ possibility that I might need them some time in the future. Just my paranoia I expect ;-O

Hope this helps!

by nhoerner

That's what I figured...the ones I'd remove first are the REALLY old ones (there are some there from 2001 and 2002) and since I've added lots of stuff since then, I doubt I'd need to worry but I know about paranoia so I probably will move them. Thanks.

by sohohelpdesk

Do you have space on another partitation sitting there not being used? If so use partition Magic 8, I just had this exact problem with a customer computer. I did a back up of the DATA just in case, and used partation magic 8 to take 5 GB from the larger partition "E" and place it on the "C" partition, it took awhile but man did it work great. Partition Magic 8 saved the day.

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