New hard drive running out of space before its supposed to

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May 7th, 2003, 12:24 AM
Arc

New hard drive running out of space before its supposed to

I just replaced my old 15gig HD with a new 40gig. I dont have the old HD installed only the new one. Currently i have almost 15 gigs of space gone from my new HD. I downloaded and tried to install a new program and it's saying my C drive does not have enough room, even though my drive shows that i still have around 25 gigs left.

The only thing i can think of is the OEM software i installed is telling the computer that i only have 15 gigs of space, since i totaly reinstalled everything from scratch using the OEM Windows CD that came with the computer.

I am totaly off base? Why is my computer saying i am out fo room when it shows that i have 25 gigs of space left?

Thanks!:D
May 7th, 2003, 08:36 AM
Kzin

Re: New hard drive running out of space before its supposed to

Quote:

Originally posted by Arc
I just replaced my old 15gig HD with a new 40gig. I dont have the old HD installed only the new one. Currently i have almost 15 gigs of space gone from my new HD. I downloaded and tried to install a new program and it's saying my C drive does not have enough room, even though my drive shows that i still have around 25 gigs left.

The only thing i can think of is the OEM software i installed is telling the computer that i only have 15 gigs of space, since i totaly reinstalled everything from scratch using the OEM Windows CD that came with the computer.

I am totaly off base? Why is my computer saying i am out fo room when it shows that i have 25 gigs of space left?

Thanks!:D

First thing to do is to defragment your drive - there may not be a single area on your drive big enough to fit your file. When you are doing that you will get a drive map that will show you how files are distributed on your HDD
May 7th, 2003, 10:20 AM
parksie

Some older installer programs get confused if you have more than 2gb of free space (since that's the maximum value that can be held in a signed integer). Others go odd at 4gb (unsigned integer).

Windows has been using 64-bit numbers for file sizes and disk capacities for a loooong time though now.
May 7th, 2003, 01:41 PM
Arc

Hmm well it's a brand new drive, less than a week old so i seriously doubt i need to defrag.

The package i'm trying to install is a MS product, SQL SERVER 2000 so i doubt it's a problem with the installer.
May 7th, 2003, 03:58 PM
siyan

Re: Re: New hard drive running out of space before its supposed to

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Originally posted by Kzin
First thing to do is to defragment your drive - there may not be a single area on your drive big enough to fit your file. When you are doing that you will get a drive map that will show you how files are distributed on your HDD

umm....if there is no single space big enough then it will just split the file into smaller fragments and write them.

thats why we have a disk defragmenter.

as long as you have enough free clusters to write the file, it should write properly.

Arc:
As a follow up to parksie's post, try running the software in Windows 95 compatability mode and see what happens....I think 95 was the first version of windows that supported FAT32. (aside from maybe hacked 3.1 DLLs)
May 7th, 2003, 08:22 PM
dogsby

Are your hd settings in the bios set right? heads, cylinders etc?
your oem disk might have the 15 g hd in the config.

Dogsby
May 7th, 2003, 10:15 PM
Arc

Yah thats what i was thinking... but i am not familiar with how to chane the setting in the BIOS if there are any..
May 8th, 2003, 10:10 AM
plenderj

Could be a bug...
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;316046
May 8th, 2003, 10:31 PM
siyan

Quote:

Originally posted by Arc
Yah thats what i was thinking... but i am not familiar with how to chane the setting in the BIOS if there are any..

its usually automatic.
May 11th, 2003, 01:35 PM
<ABX

does just the install tell you that you dont have any space or does windows?

what os?

have you tried the drive in another computer?