Where's my drive space?

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The system partition got down to 50MB of available space so I began deleting
anything I could and got to 75MB. I then ran cleanmgr and was able to
increase the available drive space to 350MB or so it would seem. The problem
now is that it says the disk is full and I am unable to copy over files of
1MB or less. I tried running the disk defrag utility but it stops because it
says the disk is full.

Is this a problem with cleanmgr, my hard drive, or what?

Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
 
TomG said:
The system partition got down to 50MB of available space so I began deleting
anything I could and got to 75MB. I then ran cleanmgr and was able to
increase the available drive space to 350MB or so it would seem. The problem
now is that it says the disk is full and I am unable to copy over files of
1MB or less. I tried running the disk defrag utility but it stops because it
says the disk is full.

Is this a problem with cleanmgr, my hard drive, or what?

Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
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There is no problem with cleanmgr or your hard drive. The problem
lies with the things you store on your hard disk. Under Win2000,
you must have at least 1 GByte of free disk space but 2 GBytes
would be better. If you have less then you paint yourself into a
corner.

Defragging a disk will ***not*** free up space. It merely re-arranges
the various fragments that make up a file.

Your first task must be to find out what's eating up your disk space.
Use one of the links below. The second task is to delete what you
no longer need. Don't forget to empty the recycle bin!

DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/
 
I know that defrag will not free up space. It was only an example of
messages I was getting that the drive is full. It still begs the questions
as to why the drive reads as having 350MB of free drive space yet there seems
to be no available space for storage.
 
The reason is simple: Whatever you're trying to run requires
more than 350 MBytes of space. In your original post you
wrote "it says the disk is full", without saying what you really
mean with "it". It's that "it" that demands more space.
 
If you fill the dive till it's chock full, and then delete a little
here, and a little there, the free space is scattered all over and then
the defrag refuses to play because it can't find any contiguous
freespace to work with. If defrag won't run, move stuff off the drive to
storage, uninstall, delete stuff, until it WILL run. Then run it a
couple times. Now you should have a little breathing room, and should
consider acquiring additional drive storage.
 
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