Error: There is not enough space on the disc

Error: There is not enough space on the disc!

I keep getting this error, I have over 50 gigs of free space. It will download for a while then the error pops up. I can restart the download and it will work for a bit and then it does it again. I have tried utorrent and bittorrent and I get this error with both. Any ideas?

Thanks for any help!

Is your hdd in your pc formatted to NTFS if you are using winxp as this kinds sounds like that kind of a problem, because the FAT32 filing system has a 4 GB size limitation and this may be why you are getting this error.

Not 100% that this is the cause but is the first thing to check.

Start > Run > CMD

convert x: /fs:ntfs (repalce X: with the drive letter you wish to convert)

mrzoo welcome to torrentbox. Smile

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The Drive is all ready NTFS. Whats next? Very Happy

Thanks again for the help

This is really a long shot but it has happened to me. If you deleted some files to make room for others on a hard drive it may show the new space as available but until you empty the recycle bin and can muck up transfers or new allocations.

This has not happened frequently to me, so there could have been other factors that I am missing.

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nope recycle bin has been cleared. I even ran a disc defrag to make sure the drive was good and clean. not sure what to do next

Since we are giving long shots here.. Wink

..you could try running chkdsk (check disc) and it might find some problems and correct them.

Just click on Start>'run and in the run window type chkdsk /f with a gap between k and / and a dos window will open and ask if you want to run chkdsk on your next reboot, just press the Y key on your keyboard and then press the enter key.

Then when you restart your pc it will go through the chkdsk procedure, it will say at first you can skip chkdsk but let it run its course and see if it finds any problems and once done the pc will restart by itself and chkdsk is compelte, see if that will help in your situation. Smile

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	d1111s. wrote:
	another long shot, something may be creating large temporary files, what AV are you using?

AVG 8

starhammer wrote:

Since we are giving long shots here.. Wink

..you could try running chkdsk (check disc) and it might find some problems and correct them.

Just click on Start>'run and in the run window type chkdsk /f with a gap between k and / and a dos window will open and ask if you want to run chkdsk on your next reboot, just press the Y key on your keyboard and then press the enter key.

Then when you restart your pc it will go through the chkdsk procedure, it will say at first you can skip chkdsk but let it run its course and see if it finds any problems and once done the pc will restart by itself and chkdsk is compelte, see if that will help in your situation. Smile

Tried it, no problems found. Still getting the error

Keep the ideas coming guys, thanks again for all the help

How much Virtual memory do you have set? Somehow things might have been altered and a gross amount of disc space is allocated for memory purposes. My computer is set up for 1.5gigs of virtual memory. Goto the control panel and open system, then advanced, where you will find performance settings, again goto advanced and you will find your virtual memory there.

Also you can goto your control panel and open the administrative tools. From there click on computer management, then strogege there you will find disc management. This will show you how your disc is partitioned and may show any hidden partitions that are inaccessible for some reason, maybe there is somehow a partition formated to Unix, (for running Linux or mac OSX). a Unix partition would not be recognized by windows for any type of read/write operation. At least by doing this you can see a visual of what your disc is formatted to.

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	damaged0972 wrote:
	How much Virtual memory do you have set? Somehow things might have been altered and a gross amount of disc space is allocated for memory purposes. My computer is set up for 1.5gigs of virtual memory. Goto the control panel and open system, then advanced, where you will find performance settings, again goto advanced and you will find your virtual memory there.

I checked this and it was set to 748mb. So I bumped it up to 1.5gigs

damaged0972 wrote:

Also you can goto your control panel and open the administrative tools. From there click on computer management, then strogege there you will find disc management. This will show you how your disc is partitioned and may show any hidden partitions that are inaccessible for some reason, maybe there is somehow a partition formated to Unix, (for running Linux or mac OSX). a Unix partition would not be recognized by windows for any type of read/write operation. At least by doing this you can see a visual of what your disc is formatted to.

In disc management I did not find any hidden partitions.
The drive I am trying to write to is my D: drive Layout=partition, Type=basic, File System=NTFS, Status=Healthy (Page File), Capacity 166GB, Free Space=49GB, Fault Tolerance=No, Overhead 0%

This all looks normal to me(?)

Oh and just for the record I have got this error with several torrents so I don't think it is the torrent its self.

Any ideas?

Do you have another Drive you can download to?

Just to see if its your D: Drive at fault here or something else with your system.

Cool

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This may sound strange, were is the c:\ as you mentioned d:\ and I always thought windows was installed on c:\, make sure the torrent client isn't pointing to a c:\ directory of some sort like the download path.

This may not help but was worth to mention just in case. Wink

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Are you using a network or something like asp maybe?

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Not a solution just a comment, virtual memory should bet set to never ever more than 1.5 x RAM available, it should be custom set to start and end at the same size, this much reduces disc fragmentation, if you have more than one drive then set it to zero on your Boot drive and allocate it on another drive, finally if you have 3 gig or more on a 32 bit system then you should set no paging file, or 4 gig on a 64 bit system the same applies. Cool

On topic, what is the client you are using ?, it could be trying to pre-allocate too much space.
Try either uninstalling your client, rebooting, clean the registry then reinstall, or simply try another client. Cool

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