Hi,
     Are you by any perchance running this harddrive with fat16?  Also, do
you use directories?  I know in fat16 there is a limit to the number of
filenames the root directory can hold (I think it is 256).  As soon as you
make one directory, you can put as many files in the directory as you want.
 I don't know if NTFS has the same limit.  I had an identical problem with
a zip disk I keep graphics on.  I moved a couple of files, created a
directory called graphics and moved all my graphics into it.  This fixed my
problem, and it might fix yours.

HTH,
Donald Gaither

>I keep a partition of one of my two hard drives in Windows NT devoted to
>storing my MP3z.  I am therefore not particularly worried about filling
>up the entire drive, which might hurt performance, because only the MP3z
>are stored on the drive.  However, the partition is 948 MB in size and
>NT is now forcing me to leave 23.1 MB of space free.  Initially I was
>forced to leave approximately 27.2 MB free.  However, I shifted 502 MB
>of files from the drive and then wiped the free space of the drive and
>was eventually allowed an extra 4 MB.  Yet I still can not convince NT
>to allow me to fill the rest of the drive.  Whenever I try to move a
>file from another partition (it is approximately 1.5 MB in size) NT
>informs me that it was unable to move the file because there was not
>enough free space on the drive.  Now considering I'm attempting to move
>a 1.5 MB file onto a partition with 23.1 MB free this seems ridiculous
>to me.  I do not seem to have this problem with any other partition on
>the computer, because I was able to fill another partition, that is 500
>MB in size, so that it only had 3.x MB left free.  I can not seem to
>reason why this is occuring on this single drive, the only thoughts I
>have are possibly that Diskeeper is limiting the drive, i changed some
>tiny setting somewhere that I can not now find, or there is possibly a
>virus that has infected only this partition?!?  The last idea seems
>ridiculous but I have no other idea as to what might be causing such
>strange behavior.  If anyone could provide an answer to this dilemna I
>would greatly appreciate it.
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