I have a SATA drive on an adaptor card that shows as having 20 GB still available. Yet when I try to save to it the drive cancels the save and gives me a message that the disk is full.
What's going on?
What's going on?
Yes. Though I reboot at least once a week.Berlin said:Is your pc on 24/7 ?
I have the latest patches and drivers for the mobo and SATA adaptor.data1960 said:Questions:
Yes that is true from my experience. However, recycle Bin does not reserve disk space. When you delete a file, it does not leave your drive, it gets moved to the recycle directory and stays there until you clean the recycle or you run low on disk space and the system needs to delete it to create free space.data1960 said:I though system functions like system restore and the recycle bin actually reserved disk space - therefore it doesn't show up as "free space" on the drive.
free Space (in this case, 20 GB) is always going to be free space on Disk after the files in the recycle bin are taken into account. If you clear the recycle bin, you will have more than the 20 Gb never less.shrek71 said:How much crap is in the recycle bin on that drive?
Keebler Elf said:When chkdsk showed no bad sectors I decided to defragment the disk. The analysis shows only 7% free space, total fragmentation of 41%, and file fragmentation of 83%.
That fragmentation seems pretty high so maybe that's part of the problem?
So I went to defrag and it says I need 15% free space. So I'm going to have to do some cleaning up first...
So does this mean you no longer get the Disk Full Error message and your only problem is a wonky drive ... which is the other thread you have?Keebler Elf said:I can move files back and forth to the drive so long as it's being detected. When it's down, obviously I can't.
I'm constantly emptying the recycle bin.
The rest of my computer works normally.