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Low Disk Space Error!

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Name: Vas
Date: November 11, 2005 at 19:25:50 Pacific
OS: WinXP Pro SP2
CPU/Ram: P3 1GHZ, 256 Ram
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Hi,

I have a problem with my PC. I have two partitions C and D drive totally 20GB. I have installed Win XP Pro SP2 in C and D is for back up and for other stuff. No Operating System in D. C has 2GB free space after all installation and D has 15 GB.

Today, when I unzipped one big .rar file in D drive to open the file, I got the error message saying "Low Disk Space in C" and I got only 1MB space left. I was shocked to see it. I closed the .rar incompleted file and opened again. But same message again "Low Disk Space".

I tried all, Free Disk Space, Defragmentation, Disk Check, etc but all in vain. Finally, I free 1GB space from D drive by using PartitionMagic. But the problem is I couldn't add that 1GB space to C drive. But I can add that 1GB back again to D drive with the same option I was trying for C drive.

This is my problem now. Can anyone help me to solve this problem.

Thanks & Regards,

Vas




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Name: Richard59
Date: November 11, 2005 at 22:30:21 Pacific
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I think you need to tell windows to use Pagefile only on D drive. Since you only have 256mb system ram, when you try to open up a large file, and the operating system cannot hold it all in ram, it uses harddrive space in pagefile as temporary ram. That requires diskspace.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307886&sd=tech

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