Not enough disk space message on drive with plenty of space

[Guest]

Recently I tried to install an upgrade to a program that I use for work
called 20/20 Design. The upgrade file is only 20MB although the installed
program and associated files is quite large maybe 1GB. I get almost al the
way through the installation and i get a message that says " Not enough disk
space on target drive while attempting to copy files" I checked my 80GB hard
drive and found I had 45GB of free space which seems more than enough. I
contacted the program vendor and they suggested I delete temporary files an
try to reinstall. I did that an d the program would still not install, no
change. They suggested that it was my computer so I contacted Dell support
and cleaned up and checked out my hard drive. I can find no problem with my
hardware. The hardware vendor says its the software, the software vendor says
its the hardware. Help! this is making me nuts. I did install the software on
another machine with less free space so I know it works, but I can't find
anything wrong with my current system. I have windows XP Pro with SP2, NTFS
file sytem. I recently downloaded a 70MB File with no problem so it has
something to do with the insstallation software not recognising the amount of
free space available.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Usually, that error has to do with "Virtual Memory" settings, (which can be set to allow windows to do it automatically)

I suggest setting a manual amount larger than three times the space needed for that app.

Go to start/run, and type:

HH %windir%\Help\sysdm.chm::/sysdm_advancd_perform_change_vmpagefile.htm

Another setting is for "what Windows does if the system stops unexpectedly"

Go to start/run, and type:

HH %windir%\Help\sysdm.chm::/sysdm_advancd_startrecover_recovery.htm