Persistent Disk Space Low Error-Still No Solution

[abradaxis]

In spite of a few suggestions about possibly having my C Drive partitioned
(which is not the case), I still continue to get Disk Space Low errors from
windows event log, although I have 120 Gig remaining on a 160 Gig Drive. I
believe this is causing me errors in my applications. I ran a chkdsk and
defragged, and I am sure that I have only one large partition. Any ideas
would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

In spite of a few suggestions about possibly having my C Drive partitioned
(which is not the case), I still continue to get Disk Space Low errors
from windows event log, although I have 120 Gig remaining on a 160 Gig
Drive. I believe this is causing me errors in my applications. I ran a
chkdsk and defragged, and I am sure that I have only one large partition.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Let's have some hard evidence. Please do this:
1. Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
2. Type these commands:
dir c:\win* > c:\test.txt{Enter}
notepad c:\test.txt{Enter}
3. Copy & paste this text into your reply.

By the way, it is not good practice to start a new thread on
an existing subject. By doing so you are likely to cause
potential respondents to repeat what their predecessors
recommended, thus wasting everybody's time.

 

[Elmo]

In spite of a few suggestions about possibly having my C Drive partitioned
(which is not the case), I still continue to get Disk Space Low errors from
windows event log, although I have 120 Gig remaining on a 160 Gig Drive. I
believe this is causing me errors in my applications. I ran a chkdsk and
defragged, and I am sure that I have only one large partition. Any ideas
would be greatly appreciated.

You can turn the notification off.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=285107

I had a similar error years ago when I first installed a hd that was
larger than the 2.1 GB limit. After writing a few files, deleting,
etc., and possibly changing the size of VM (I don't remember exactly
what I tried.), I eventually made it past the roadblock and never had
another problem. There certainly shouldn't be a 40GB limit, but it's
something to consider. If you resize the VM settings, then change to
"let XP handle it", that might get it cooperating again.

 

[Poprivet`]

In spite of a few suggestions about possibly having
my C Drive
partitioned (which is not the case), I still continue
to get Disk
Space Low errors from windows event log, although I
have 120 Gig
remaining on a 160 Gig Drive. I believe this is
causing me errors in
my applications. I ran a chkdsk and defragged, and I
am sure that I
have only one large partition. Any ideas would be
greatly appreciated.

You still haven't answered the questions that were put
to you in your original thread.
And don't go starting a new thread for an old subject
when you haven't had anything change; wastes lots of
time.

 

[abradaxis]

Thank you all who responded. Sorry for any breach of etiquette. I thought I
had answered all previous questions. As far as the test that was requested,
the resulting text is:

Volume in drive C is BOOTDISK:
Volume Serial Number is D4BA-C075

Directory of c:\

12/09/2007 01:14 PM <DIR> WINDOWS
0 File(s) 0 bytes
1 Dir(s) 131,349,008,384 bytes free

Hope this provides some helpful information.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Indeed, you had answered all the previous questions, but then
you asked a new question yourself on the same subject. You
should have asked it in the same thread instead of starting a
new one.

The test you ran confirms what you wrote: That you have oodles
of free disk space. It appears that the algorithm that determines
a low disk space condition has gone haywire. I suggest you
turn it off altogether, as suggested by Elmo in his reply.

 

[abradaxis]

Thank you for your prompt reply. I'll turn off the notification. I just hope
that this error is not the cause of the persistent disk write errors I'm
getting on my backup/restore application.