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Thread ID: 87338	2008-02-17 20:46:00	At what point does XP tell you "your running out of space on your...."	wratterus (105)	Press F1

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641233	2008-02-17 20:46:00	XP. Had a dodgy 40GB HDD, out of an old HP PC. (Maxtor, naturally) Used Acronis to clone it to a new 80GB drive. (Seagate, naturally) :p Now the recovery partition, (which I didn't change the size of), had 2MB free, and still does, but obviously the "you are running out of space on your d:" message keeps coming up. I'm not concerned about getting rid of the message, but rather at what point. (I assume it's a percentage of the drive left empty) does Windows start bitching about having no space. I'll simply resize the partition to suit, but rather than mucking around, trial and error, hopefully someone knows exactly when Windows starts moaning. TIA. :cool:	wratterus (105)
641234	2008-02-17 20:55:00	From Memory - and its to early in the week to be accurate:p I think its around 5-6Mb,on a 40Gb Drive	wainuitech (129)
641235	2008-02-17 21:37:00	From Memory - and its to early in the week to be accurate:p I think its around 5-6Mb,on a 40Gb DriveUnless it's the drive on which a swapfile lives - in this case the warning is displayed when the free space drops below the maximum allowable swap size. We have a whole bunch of PCs at work reporting low disk space at 2GB free because of this :groan:.	Erayd (23)
641236	2008-02-17 21:56:00	Ok guys, thanks. Think I'll add 50mb just to be safe. They are hardly short of space now.	wratterus (105)
641237	2008-02-17 22:42:00	I think the general rule was when there is only 15% left? I cant remember exactly	rob_on_guitar (4196)
641238	2008-02-17 22:57:00	I think the general rule was when there is only 15% left? I cant remember exactly Maybe your thinking about the defrag thing? Windows says it won't defrag properly if your drive has less than 15% free space? :illogical	wratterus (105)
641239	2008-02-18 00:43:00	Oh yea. Maybe your correct.	rob_on_guitar (4196)
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