Vista Tutorial - Warning Claims I Am Running Out of Space

Periodically, I receive a balloon popup message in the lower-right corner of
my screen that claims that I am low on disk space. I am sure that this is
untrue, however, because I have about 121 GB of free hard disk space.

This error started when I resized my partition to make room for another
operating system. I could probably suppress the error message, but I'd
rather fix it altogether.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks!

Jason

The warning pertains to a particular partion (drive letter) not the total
available on the hard drive. One of your partions is close to being out,
check each drive letter to see how close you are on space.


"Jason Freeman" <loosus@coastalnet.com> wrote in message
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> Periodically, I receive a balloon popup message in the lower-right corner
> of my screen that claims that I am low on disk space. I am sure that this
> is untrue, however, because I have about 121 GB of free hard disk space.
>
> This error started when I resized my partition to make room for another
> operating system. I could probably suppress the error message, but I'd
> rather fix it altogether.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason

You know, I thought the warning mentioned the partition that has so much
space available, but it may be mentioning the partition that has almost no
space available! I haven't seen the popup recently, so I can't verify.

Here's my setup: Windows Vista Home Premium is on my C Drive with about 120
GB free. Windows Server 2008 Beta is on my W Drive with probably less than
10 MB free (since I'm just playing with it and it didn't want to dedicate
much space to it). When I'm in Windows Vista Home Premium, is it still
possible that the message could concern the W Drive, even though I have
Vista loaded on my C Drive?

Thanks!


"Michael" <mexxwalraven@verson.net> wrote in message
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> The warning pertains to a particular partion (drive letter) not the total
> available on the hard drive. One of your partions is close to being out,
> check each drive letter to see how close you are on space.
>
>
> "Jason Freeman" <loosus@coastalnet.com> wrote in message
> news:eL9Vk1FwHHA.4300@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Periodically, I receive a balloon popup message in the lower-right corner
>> of my screen that claims that I am low on disk space. I am sure that
>> this is untrue, however, because I have about 121 GB of free hard disk
>> space.
>>
>> This error started when I resized my partition to make room for another
>> operating system. I could probably suppress the error message, but I'd
>> rather fix it altogether.
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jason
>

I would suspect the W drive, 10MB is not much free space. If you do not need
access to the W drive when in Vista you could remove the drive letter (NOT
the partion) from your currently W drive, that will stop the check for space
as that is only done for drive letters. The multiple boot structure may very
well keep the drive there the beta, don't know as I don't have a multiple
boot structure to test with.
Michael

"Jason Freeman" <loosus@coastalnet.com> wrote in message
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> You know, I thought the warning mentioned the partition that has so much
> space available, but it may be mentioning the partition that has almost no
> space available! I haven't seen the popup recently, so I can't verify.
>
> Here's my setup: Windows Vista Home Premium is on my C Drive with about
> 120 GB free. Windows Server 2008 Beta is on my W Drive with probably less
> than 10 MB free (since I'm just playing with it and it didn't want to
> dedicate much space to it). When I'm in Windows Vista Home Premium, is it
> still possible that the message could concern the W Drive, even though I
> have Vista loaded on my C Drive?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> "Michael" <mexxwalraven@verson.net> wrote in message
> news:OJdcy$JwHHA.4384@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> The warning pertains to a particular partion (drive letter) not the total
>> available on the hard drive. One of your partions is close to being out,
>> check each drive letter to see how close you are on space.
>>
>>
>> "Jason Freeman" <loosus@coastalnet.com> wrote in message
>> news:eL9Vk1FwHHA.4300@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Periodically, I receive a balloon popup message in the lower-right
>>> corner of my screen that claims that I am low on disk space. I am sure
>>> that this is untrue, however, because I have about 121 GB of free hard
>>> disk space.
>>>
>>> This error started when I resized my partition to make room for another
>>> operating system. I could probably suppress the error message, but I'd
>>> rather fix it altogether.
>>>
>>> Anybody have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Jason
>>
>

Jason Freeman wrote:

> Here's my setup: Windows Vista Home Premium is on my C Drive with about
> 120 GB free. Windows Server 2008 Beta is on my W Drive with probably
> less than 10 MB free (since I'm just playing with it and it didn't want
> to dedicate much space to it). When I'm in Windows Vista Home Premium,
> is it still possible that the message could concern the W Drive, even
> though I have Vista loaded on my C Drive?


I'm going to guess at "Yes" because is the OS can still see the drive
then any access to it will assess it's parameters to some extent. Any
read or write such as opening "My Computer" will examine the drive.