Due to progressively failing hardware and my financial constraints I was obliged to junk a HD and partition my FS drive to install a cloned XP from the original XP drive. Unfortunately the guy got the numbers wrong and I now have only 25Gb free on the FS partition and a gazillion Gb free on the XP partition.In the two flights I have made since I got crashes on short final due to lack of space.(I have 4Gb RAM, with the Userva and Address Aware mods correctly set up.)Is a free 25Gb simply not enough?If so, can I resize my partitions with a free, safe and reliable freeware tool, or will I have to pay the guy to re-do the job or buy a commercial program?Thanks.

Due to progressively failing hardware and my financial constraints I was obliged to junk a HD and partition my FS drive to install a cloned XP from the original XP drive. Unfortunately the guy got the numbers wrong and I now have only 25Gb free on the FS partition and a gazillion Gb free on the XP partition.In the two flights I have made since I got crashes on short final due to lack of space.(I have 4Gb RAM, with the Userva and Address Aware mods correctly set up.)Is a free 25Gb simply not enough?If so, can I resize my partitions with a free, safe and reliable freeware tool, or will I have to pay the guy to re-do the job or buy a commercial program?Thanks.

HelloA quick google found this, http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.htmlAlthough I am sure there are a few more out there.Hope it works for you, I use the partitioning tools in my bootmanager to resize without any issues.http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal-ss.htm

Easeus Partition MasterBack up your system before resizing system partitions

You can often download "free" older versions of payware such as Partition Magic or it may come bundled with a computer magazine and that would be ideal for win XP.RegardsPeterH

Answered, then removed due to an OOM ten minutes into a new flight - just to make sure it wasnt the newly-installed freeware desination that caused the problem."Instruction 0x2077660c referenced memory at 0x09dcf440. The memory could not be written".Is this a DEP thing? Ive been googling this and the consensus seems to be that DEP should be off for everything.My modified Boot.ini:multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with /3GB" /3GB /NoExecute=OptIn /fastdetect /userva=2900This is the original modified .ini from when I had 2 HD with the OS on a partition of one, and FS on a non-partitioned other.What I am reading is that "No Execute=Always Off" is the desired setting.Should DEP be off?Grateful.

Just seen that in Control Panel-System-Advanced-Performance-Settings-DEP is "On for all programs and services except those that I select".I dont recall ever having seen this tab, let alone messed with it.Is there some conflict here?

I wish I could start this thread all over again. Actually it should never have been started.I have wasted everybodys time by making a basic newbie-simmer mistake - a freeware Landclass file (alicant2.zip on the other site) with a Texture folder in it.I have a CPU/Ram monitor on my keyboard, and all I had to do was turn it on and watch the Ram consumption start at a normal 35-39 and rise as I programmed the FMC and taxied out at a freeware LEAL - until it hit 91% before line-up and then crashed. All I had to do then was look for the obvious and simple causes of OOMs. It took me three crashed "flights" to think of the obvious. I apologize to you and thank you for taking the time to offer help.But - I would be very grateful for opinions regarding the small amount of free space on my FS partition: there is 25Gb free on a 95Gb partition. Is this okay or should I try and free up more space.