I recently took the brave step of trying to install XP on my netbook without any assistance. Although marginally successful it has proved to have been a bad idea. My netbook is limited to a 20 gig hard drive. When I was given the option of which partition to house the install I opted for the 4 gig section. I figured that if it turned out to be too small it would tell me and I would then put it in one of the bigger ones. It seemed to complete the install and all was well. Then I realized that I was missing drivers and other software and had an IT tech do the job for me. Again all seemed well. But I now realize that there is almost no space remaining at all in the partition. If I want to download applications and make installations they go to the 'program' section of this partition and can not fit. I looked on the net at instructions of how to correctly install XP on my machine and it says 'do not install in the 4 gig partition'. If only I'd read this before.

So, is there anything I can do? Can I even place my downloads in one of the other partitions? Any ideas?

If I hadn't read your other thread about not having drivers I'd recommend sticking the install disk back in and give it another go. You could resize your partitions using a tool in Ubuntu, but given that you've got nothing on the OS so far worth saving, other than the OS itself, it's probably best to start from scratch again.

The guy who you got to install the drivers for you - did he leave you any files to use should you require the drivers again at a later date?

Programs are not required to be installed in c:\Program Files.

You can chose any other drive (partition). Even if programs are installed outside the usual C:\ drive

they fill up the Windows directory with files needed to run the program.

Don't forget the virtual memory, the swap file and/or hibernation.

Partition your Netbook 8/12GB or 10/10GB. For additional data storage you can use flash memory or external Hdd

I use Gparted to resize partitions (even existing ones).

I've never had it fail on me but all the same, do it at your own risk.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/