How much space is free? I ask because space may be lost between
"used" and "free" (ADS, file system corruption)
What caused the original crash, and why was it necessary to "just"
re-install? Problems often persist when folks paper over them...
That "feature" is supposed to be useful, but pretty much everyone
just finds it incredibly annoying.
That's because it's so badly implimented.
You can turn it off by getting a copy of TweakUI for XP.
The problem is that Windows determines whether or not it should display
that warning by checking the percentage of free space to total space.
Same dumb logic used to determine IE cache allocations, as well as
pagefile size (e.g. "128M RAM? Well, you'd never have to swap more
than 192M to disk, would you?")
More to the point, there's zero awareness that different HD volumes
might be used differently.
I can see it making sense to reserve (say) the size of the pagefile
(on the basis that a similar size of temp files may be needed) for C:,
and the size of a CD or DVD wherever "CD Burning" is located.
But only the user can know how much space is needed elsewhere, and
without the automatic disk-hogging effects of Temp etc. there may be
no reason to alert at all, or just alert if SR hits the wall there.
OTOH, I may want an earlier warning. Say I devote a 2G volume to
holding the last 5 automatic backups of whatever; I'd need enough free
space to create a new one before deleting the oldest - say 22% of
volume size, as opposed to an absolute size.
If you would prefer, there is a way to change the threshold instead of disabling it altogether.
Can you selectively enable this (or change the threshold) for
different volumes?
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