MY COMPUTER

[jha_gkp]

I bought an HCL pc with "WINDOWS XP MEDIACENTRE EDITION", about 3 months ago. It has a preloaded "UNISTALL'S CRASH PROOF RECOVERY TOOL". The tool never completes its image taking function. All time, it starts copying the O/S, an error message follows indicating "Can not take O/S non distructistructive image,the hidden partition free space is less than 300 mb". I often recieve an error message after I turn on my computer indicating, "You are running out of disc space on local drive E:". My service engeneer says that low disc space at E: drive is the resion for all this problem but he did not give any solution for it. I don't understand the meaning of this message because when I want to use the disc cleanup wizard, I see the total used space on the disc to be 0 mb. Further, I never saved any document of mine to the E: drive. I allways use the C: drive for all of my works. My hard disc has three partitions C:,D: and E:.One more thing to be noted is that, I am not able allways to see the E: drive in "MY COMPUTER", sometimes it looks here and sometimes not. PLEASE GIVE ANY SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEMS.

 

[popcorn]

some questions to understand your problem....what is the size of the partition E. is it FAT or NTFS?. And who made that partition? you or HCL?

 

[waterloo_sunset]

Ok first of all, are the C: and E: partitions of the same size? Coz if E: is smaller, then the software is bound to give an error.

 

[jha_gkp]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2005, 08:43 AM
some questions to understand your problem....
what is the size of the partition E. is it FAT or NTFS?. And who made that partition? you or HCL?
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FIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR GIVING ATTANTION TO MY PROBLEM.
The size of E partition is 10 GB and it is FAT32. The partition is made by HCL.
The size of D partition is also 10 GB and the rest is C partition out of the total 80 GB hard disc.
My computer had preloaded softwares and I never performed any formatting to the hard disc.

 

[popcorn]

fat32 may be the culprit...fat32 does not support a single file over 4 GB.if you dont have any data on drive E try formating drive E to NTFS and restart and try the backup again..... but do it at your own risk!!