WDGC Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 With my installation of XP Pro SP2, the I386 folder on the hard drive has a size of 964MB. I'm somewhat surprised it is this large, particularly as others I've spoken to report sizes of 450 - 500MB. What is the size of this folder on other machines?Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on.--Sonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glent Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 what is the Cd source? retail cd, XP home ,Media centre etc? how did you copy the files to your hardrive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
net_user Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 With my installation of XP Pro SP2um...i'm assuming pro.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepali Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 well, its hard disk,, so we can assum some body might have messed with ur xp sourcemight have placed some xtra filescopied some filesexpanded *.cabhide some private files inside i386 folder..any thing could have happned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 From the official CD:Windows XP Pro 5.1.2600 - 460Mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDGC Posted March 5, 2006 Author Share Posted March 5, 2006 what is the Cd source? retail cd, XP home ,Media centre etc? how did you copy the files to your hardrive?The computer is a Dell and the OS was pre-installed.well, its hard disk,, so we can assum some body might have messed with ur xp sourcemight have placed some xtra filescopied some filesexpanded *.cabhide some private files inside i386 folder..any thing could have happnedI'm the sole user and I haven't touched the folder in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glent Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 thats the problem right there, you need a retail or OEM version not the one dell gave you, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDGC Posted March 5, 2006 Author Share Posted March 5, 2006 thats the problem right there, you need a retail or OEM version not the one dell gave you,The XP CD hasn't any thing to do with it. The machine is 2 weeks old and the OS, as I said before, was pre-installed, not installed from the CD and nothing has been copied from the CD.I can only assume extra files were added to the I386 folder as part of the factory installation process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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