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[theman]

I'm having a really strange problem with my hard drive. I installed something called Acronis OS Selector which creates a small FAT32 partition with a GRUB. I also formally had two parititions, one 50GB and the other 10GB, the 10GB partition was unformatted. I formatted the old partition and resized the main one with the new partition. When I booted up again, suddenly I get a message- your hard drive is critially low on space! I ran Diskkeeper and found that a HUGE amount of space is taken by "system files" but my files only account for 20GB. Anyone have any ideas? Windows works fine but I'd really like more than 35 mb left on that drive! lol..

[Neon]

Get Partition Magic mate and alter the sizes of all.

[Sphere]

Why do you have a grub partition? why not just write it to the hdd's root?

[theman]

Well I tried resizing the partition a few times, and even the cluster size- using Acronis software and Partitionmagic- and it kept on doing the same thing. And I'm not sure why the GRUB wanted to make its own FAT partition, other than the fact that all of its files were located on it and it's meant for loading many different types of operating systems.

But I reformatted the hard drive yesterday and now everything's working fine. It's still a mystery though.

Edited by theman, 15 March 2006 - 04:18 PM.

[Sphere]

You're running grub as an independent boot loader?
Might as well attach it to a Linux installation, saves you space for the partition! (though... how much difference would it make?)

[theman]

I guess so..lol..it's just whatever Acronis Boot Loader does. I had originally planned on setting up OSX86 on my extra hard drive, and I had heard that Acronis worked well with it.