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