XP says theres not enough room

Seanie M

I don't get it. When I print, it does so no bother but a small pop-up says that there is not enough room on my hard drive, and I should delete some old fies. And for n Ejay disc, I can't click on Full OR Minimal Installation, OR Quickstart, as there is not enough room on myhard drive...


...surely 68GB is enough free space??? What is XP doing?

seamus

Have you got quotas activated?

tman

is your hard drive split into two partitions?
could be that you're out of space on the c: drive and have loads left over on the d: drive...

rok

dunno if you have the same error but I was getting a similiar error when I printed - "Insufficient disk space in the current directory to spool print file please select another directory".
I also had plenty of space on the hard drive. Wouldn't print no matter what other directory I selected, but Printer worked fine with an Administrator account, so I assume the user account I was using didnt have rights to access the spooler directory/files.
Could have tried to move the spooler directory/files to another directory or drive, but I just turned off spooling in the printer settings (right click printer, Advanced tab, unselected 'Spool print documents tab' and selected 'Print directly to the printer' tab instead) and I could then print ok

Seanie M

seamus wrote:

Have you got quotas activated?

No.

Seanie M

tman wrote:

is your hard drive split into two partitions?
could be that you're out of space on the c: drive and have loads left over on the d: drive...

No. my c: drive is on a RAID 0, and my other hard drive (f:) is seperate altogether.

Seanie M

rok wrote:

dunno if you have the same error but I was getting a similiar error when I printed - "Insufficient disk space in the current directory to spool print file please select another directory"......

I only have the one account, Administrator, on this pc, and there are no restrictions at all.

Orion

have you loaded the RAID drivers?

Seanie M

Fcukin' XP... problem has gone now. Well, except for that printer pop-up, but its not affecting performance.

Macros42 wrote:

have you loaded the RAID drivers?

Yeah, did that at the start. Had to, other wise XP cold not have found a mass storage device!

Standard Toaster

Hey Seanie, what printer you got there?

Seanie M

The_Edge wrote:

Hey Seanie, what printer you got there?

Brother HL-1230 mono laser... also have a Brother MFC-840 5-in-1, but I don't get any errors with that at all on XP.

Standard Toaster

Yeap, go here. About halfway down the page.
Looks to be an XP driver issue.

Seanie M

Thanks Edge, that seems to have worked!

Standard Toaster

Nice one!