At 11:53 04/02/02, Chris Simants wrote:
>I am receiving a "Disk Full" message but I have over 500meg
>free space on boot disk C:, I have it partitioned into a
>2meg and 18meg (D:) drives using Win 98. I have moved all
>applicable software to D:, but still getting the message.
>Any suggestions? Thanks, CSS


Hi Chris

There's a limit to how many entries there can be in the root
folder of any logical drive. For example, double click C: in
My Computer and check how many files and folders are visible
in the C:\ window. If you see a lot more than a hundred files
and/or folders, move a bunch of items to an already existent
folder and see if it solves your problem.

    The actual maximum allowed might be a couple of hundred...
    the limit depends on the total number of characters in
    all the file and folder names.

    Note that you probably wouldn't be able to create a new
    folder in C:\ if you have reached the maximum number of
    entries.

The error message you get when you get to the limit
on number of entries in the root folder is the same
error as you get when you actually do run out of disk
space.

I have always tried to have as few as possible files
and folders in the root directory of C:\. It's a good
idea to delete (or move somewhere else) as many of the
backup and temp files (like msdos.bak, msdos.---,
config.001, detlog.old, etc.) that end up in the C:\
folder. But be careful that you don't delete or move
files that are actually needed to properly boot Windows.

If I'm wrong in the above, try emptying your recycle bin
and empty all temporary folders. You could also make
sure that your C: drive is partitioned using FAT32 to
limit slack waste due to cluster size.

By the way, your disk drive has 2 GB and 18 GB partitions,
not 2meg and 18meg, yes?

Regards,
Bill

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