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by hardiskcafe

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I get a pop-up message that my drive D: is running out of space even though File Manager and My Computer Properties show that I have approx. 2GB of free space.

What gives?

George

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by clutchmaster

First You May Have Errors on your hard disk..

- Run Scandisk
If you have Norton Disk Doctor
- Run Norton Disk Doctor

this normally happens when you shutdown your pc incorrectly then data becomes corrupted and stuff..

hope this fixes your problems.

by thechas

My first thought, is how big is the "D:" drive, and what are your notifications set to.

When you first start up the low drive space notification, it defaults to a percentage of the free space on the drive.

For a large drive, 2GB may be a smallenough percentage to be the trigger point.

I get nervous when I have less than 10% free space on any drive. 2GB is 10% of a 20GB drive. If your drive is an 80GB, 2GB is less than 2.5% free space.

You can either adjust the notification threashold, or disable the low disk space warning.

Chas

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