Hey I got a problem.... When i try and install or download ANY programs it says "you have no space left on your disk" but my PC and Diskdata both tell me i have about 6gigs left I cant install or download anything whats goin on? has my hard drive become "damaged" in that part or what? Thanks for any help

Have you tried running Scandisk? Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?”

Hi this might help you find out whats taking up space http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ Have you tried running diskcleanup, emtptied ur recycle bin etc? Also run scan disk and defragment.

As spirit says, run a defrag. You may have 6 gig but it may all be in small fragments. If you have too little unfragmented space left you may find you have to "burn off" a cd or two of files to even get defrag to run. D4Dog "beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder"

Hey guys Thanks for the tips Defrag wouldnt work but Scandisk found 5+gigs of space too laden with errors to use (i never realised errors could screw up that much space) scandisk fixed it and its all good now thanks for the suggestion :)

Sure - that's a common disk error (misreporting free space) and usually easily corrected. Defrag?? It's not really the Holy Grail - sure, it's part of good maintenance, but the drive must be error free first. Glad it all worked out. Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?”

Be sure and keep backups of important things, if that drive is heading south! You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users