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I've got a secondary large hard drive...it's used only for games etc...swap file is on another drive...I've got a big 12 gigs of space left on the drive but I can't install anymore games etc as I keep getting the the pop up "you have run out of disk space" & the option to clean up disk. & whatever I'm doing terminates. (I've unchecked the auto run disk clean up option elsewhere to no use)
Is there a way to stop this warning popping up or at least lower the percentage of free space which activates this warning?
Any help appreciated...TIA Andy
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q193/6/83.asp&NoWebContent=1
Jimi_l
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Already done that Jimi...& also gone into the registry to do it that way...
Also tried the recycle bin Anenefan...even put it down to 1% for that drive still no joy...
Thanks for the support all the same both of you..appreciated ;¬)
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Hi
OK - definitely sounding interesting.
So you are having trouble writting to the drive. All sorts of posibilities aprt from bung OS, like some sort of data/partition/file volume (thats probably not the right terminology for it but ..) corruption.
I would suggest boot from floppy with the problem drive only as master. Use comand DIR *.* /s and copy down the details.
Looks how it should, then I would run scandisk.
Then with the system back to original - boot 98 and run defrag.
This seems pointless but it make prompt windows to correct this disk full problem.
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Some games and programs will not install on
a secondary drive no matter what. They want the C drive. You might want to consider that
if your C drive is getting full.computer solutions
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Cheers Yeah I'm ok with Norton's & even did a spyware check....& These games will run on the secondary drive..It's a general prob...Tnx anyways...Jennifer/kal
I'n answer to Anenefan, I don't think it's a write problem..more a threshold of available space I'm reaching as I can delete large files & then don't get the popup when I install something else on top..untill I again reach that space limit...Just flaming annoying. Will just have to put up with it..delete some more games & burn more backups!...(just deleted a 2 gig game & I can now currently install another)
I appreciate your help all ;¬)
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I understand the drive has 12GB space left on it. Do any of those games reserve space on the drive for a swap file or something, just a thought. Is that drive one large partition? When I have a problem like that I usually go back to the beginning to check all possible reasons for the problem(There has to be one) even though you have been there done that. First obvious question is; Is there really 12GB of free space. Either windows is lying to you or the space isn't available. If My computer shows the space as being available, Why? In all of my systems I have an Icon for a recycle bin in every drive. I know that the only active bin should be the one on the boot drive, but? I am just trying to get you to think outside the box.
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Hi
Thanks for the reply. I agree I understood - it is a threshold problem where you were unable to write any more files.
It make perfect sense that you are able to delete and copy/install back to the "invisible limit".
In addition to the steps above (#4), after getting the final details of the DIR (free space and space used) Run DIR *.* /ah /s as well and copy the same (free space space used)
After that I could only suggest loading up Partition Magic/ similar and scan all the partitions. Just look - don't change anything.I have seen a "hidden partition" materialize iside of another. How did it happen? Don't know, I'm not very good with Vfat and how MS OS's derive partition information, but have never found a comprehensive but easy to understand book about it.
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