C Drive Help???
- Thread starter don'tkno
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You didn't use up memory but by the sounds of it reached the capacity of the hard drive itself. That's called "drive space" not memory there. I assume you are seeing the "out of drive space" error message there. The simple step is boot in safe mode if you can get Winodws to load in the limited mode there and delete a few "useless" or easily replaced files of no importance.
If you have a floppy drive you can copy a number of small files onto a few of those and delete them off of the C drive to then free up drive space for Windows to use the default 2gb for what is called "virtual memory". Don't feel bad! When capturing videos to the hard drive I've run into that enough times. Just dump several small or some large useless files if you don't have a second hard drive to copy them onto in order to free up drive space.
If you have a floppy drive you can copy a number of small files onto a few of those and delete them off of the C drive to then free up drive space for Windows to use the default 2gb for what is called "virtual memory". Don't feel bad! When capturing videos to the hard drive I've run into that enough times. Just dump several small or some large useless files if you don't have a second hard drive to copy them onto in order to free up drive space.
SimpleSimon
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Yea, if you have a lot of video files, they take up a LOT of drive space!
don'tkno isn't looking to add another drive at the moment. The problem is choosing what files and even folders to remove. Those will have to hand picked to avoid deleting anything important or simply unreplaceable.
The main problem is gaining acess to the drive. This has to done manually by booting with a prepared XP boot floppy, installation disk to the recovery console, or even much easier a live for cd Linux distro like Knoppix Live. Something like those mentioned would be needed if not slaving the drive in another case to manually delete files through a command prompt.
The main problem is gaining acess to the drive. This has to done manually by booting with a prepared XP boot floppy, installation disk to the recovery console, or even much easier a live for cd Linux distro like Knoppix Live. Something like those mentioned would be needed if not slaving the drive in another case to manually delete files through a command prompt.
If Windows can be started in safe mode excess files can be removed. The reason Windows stalls in the first place is that there's not enough drive space for the virtual memory not physical memory. It doesn't cost a dime to delete files! 
Well unless they are downloads you paid for. 
! Simply dump some useless or unneeded files and Windows will be running again. 
Well unless they are downloads you paid for. ! Simply dump some useless or unneeded files and Windows will be running again.