My hard drive is suddenly full and I can't delete files

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I recently added a 40 Gig hard drive to a system with a 60 Gig drive.

I suddenly got a "no page file or page to small " error when starting the machine. Going to My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Performance - I get a window telling me "Windows creadted a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuraiton when starting your computer. <etc>". I can't change the page size. Properties for both drives show them to be full.

Any suggestions on fixing the problem

thank
 
Hi, Hugh.

Did you use Disk Management to specifically assign your drive letters? If
you did not, then Win2K reassigns letters each time you reboot, based on
whatever drives are installed at the time. Installing that second drive may
have shifted the letters so that the page file is no longer where Win2K
remembers leaving it.

If you assign the letters, Win2K will try to remember them, even when the
configuration changes. Then you can delete all your existing page files and
use the Performance screen to create the new one wherever you want it to be.

RC
 
I added the new drive a couple of months ago and things worked great until this last weekend. When I installed the new drive I reasigned drive letters so the primary drive as C (no change), the new drive as D: and the CD and DVD as E and F. The odd thing is that properties show both C and D as being completely full. I can even access the drives. When trying to open the drives I get and "access denied".

Hug


----- R. C. White wrote: ----

Hi, Hugh

Did you use Disk Management to specifically assign your drive letters? If
you did not, then Win2K reassigns letters each time you reboot, based on
whatever drives are installed at the time. Installing that second drive may
have shifted the letters so that the page file is no longer where Win2K
remembers leaving it

If you assign the letters, Win2K will try to remember them, even when the
configuration changes. Then you can delete all your existing page files and
use the Performance screen to create the new one wherever you want it to be

R
 
Hi, Hugh.

I can't think what might cause that symptom. My only suggestion would be to
go into Disk Management and explore the program and the Help file there.

I'm one guy with one computer and no network or other users, so I don't know
about permissions and such. Could something like that have caused your
dilemma?

RC
 
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