Re: disk space free errors and unable to unshare

From: Steven Umbach (n9rou_at_comcast.com)
Date: 09/30/03


Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:32:00 GMT


Possibly your disk is partitioned into logical drives and maybe one of those is
getting full, particularly the one where your operating system is located. If
that is the case, try moving some data files to a different partition or install
the programs into a different partition. --- Steve

"jeff a" <adam0488@umn.edu> wrote in message
news:0eba01c386db$d1977630$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Whenever I try to install anything via auto-extracting
> EXEs (Games, MS Office, really anything that requires
> extracting to a temp directory) I get a disk full error or
> something about being unable to copy files; however, I
> have 10gigs free on my hard-drive, and I am able to
> download files and save them to any place on my hard drive.
>
> To boot, I can't disable sharing on either of my hard
> drives. If I do it is simply re-enabled when I reboot.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>



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