Low Disk Space Information

[Guest]

Does anyone know where I can find information how Windows (2k/XP/etc.)
determine how little disk space is too little? I am trying to put together
some documentation for a product, and need to be able to tell my users either
where to find it or what it is (preferably what it is).

I came across a few articles on MSDN, but they either appeared to be for old
software (Win98/SE) and/or the numbers didn't seem correct from personal
experience. (E.g. My current Win2k system with a 20GB hdd and 256 MB RAM
reports low disk space at 1 GB. According to the doc, it should have until it
went under 200 MB.)

Help very much appreciated,

TIA,

BRM

 

[Dave Patrick]

This article may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q112509/

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:
| Does anyone know where I can find information how Windows (2k/XP/etc.)
| determine how little disk space is too little? I am trying to put
together
| some documentation for a product, and need to be able to tell my users
either
| where to find it or what it is (preferably what it is).
|
| I came across a few articles on MSDN, but they either appeared to be for
old
| software (Win98/SE) and/or the numbers didn't seem correct from personal
| experience. (E.g. My current Win2k system with a 20GB hdd and 256 MB RAM
| reports low disk space at 1 GB. According to the doc, it should have until
it
| went under 200 MB.)
|
| Help very much appreciated,
|
| TIA,
|
| BRM

 

[DL]

As well as this,
Your swap/page file by default uses 1.5* ram - in your case 384mb
Many win processess will not run with a low disk space eg Cleanup, defrag

 

[Crouchie1998]

I always thought it was 10% of free space left, but I could be wrong

 

[DL]

The MS article states 10%