BritishBeef Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I have an Acer Inspire 1690 laptop, and recently have been getting some strange capacity anomalies.For example, today, I was unpacking a file with Winrar to my external Freeagent 320GB hard drive and midway through I got an error message saying that the disk was full. I checked the disk and it has 82GB free on it and the file I was unpacking was just 1GB.This follows a series of similar events. Last week I bought a new MP3 player (8GB Samsung YP-P2) and whilst I was transfering some movies to it, windows threw up an error that the device was full. Upon checking, just 3GB of the 8GB was used and the movie files only totalled about 1GB. I did a test and deleted everything from the MP3 player and the device under my computer showed as still being full!!??Another time recently, I was transfering some files onto a Micro SD card and I had the same problem - windows reporting that the card was full when it clearly wasn't. I think I had to restart windows to sort it out.Is this a known issue? Has anyone else had this problem?My laptop is 2 years old and is extensively used daily and is probably in need of a clean Windows install. Will that fix it?Any help is greatly appeciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Welcome to the Windows Forum.Your external HD is not the one your Windows is installed on, correct? So, how full then is your Windows disk or partition?Most compression or decompression programs need some space on your Temp folder, which is by default located on your Windows partition. (You can check the location of your Temp folder by opening a command prompt windows, then type echo %TEMP%)What you can do if indeed your Windows disk is too fullInstall and run CCleaner. (Configure your cookies you want to keep before running it for the first time.)Move your Temp folder to your external HD (right-click on My Computer -> Properties -> tab Advanced tab -> Environment variables; select the TEMP variable, click Edit, then enter the new location in the Variable Value field). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Apparently this can happen with a corrupt document or file. This may not be your exact problem, but may help you fix it:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224041 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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