If you have a PC that shared for all family members, you need to manage and protect your computer wisely. And one of the important things is manage hard disk space so that you can’t run out hard disk space suddenly.

Windows XP gives you a smart tool to set quota your hard disk by user. So, you can set user A get 3GB, user B get 4GB, and so on. But this feature needs a NTFS partition to run.
So, how does to doing that? Just follow these steps:

1. Open your My Computer window.

2. Click right mouse button on your hard disk icon and choose Properties menu.

3. Click Quota tab, and check the Enable quota management & Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit radio button then set limit disk space to size that you want on Limit disk space to option and set Set warning level to option (you must set this smaller than Limit disk space value) as well, and then click OK button at hard disk Properties window.

4. And click Yes when Disk Quota confirmation dialog appear to make a confirmation to you.

5. Repeat step 1, 2 to apply to others hard drive, and then click Quota Entries button and you will see Quota Entries window.

6. At Quota Entries window, you’ll see entire of users limit list. Also, you can see them one by one and if you’re an Administrator, you can set them through this window too. Just double click a user in list. In Quota Settings window you can set Limit disk space to and Set Warning level to value.

7. If you’re done, click OK button. Then the changed of limit can be looked in Quota Entries window.

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