Hi,

Win2000 is giving me Disk Full errors when I try to run most applications (Word, Excel, Crystal Reports, E-mail...).

I was trying to run a complex Crystal Report and I kept getting an errors that my system was low on virtual memory. So after looking through the help files I increased the min and max virtual file size. This helped for the first report, but on the second one Crystal crashed and now whenever I try to open some files or application I get disk full errors. There's over 800mb of disk space and I've re-set the max virtual file size to a lower limit (250mb) but I'm still getting the problem.

Win2000 help is not good as the help system seems to have been effected..

Can anyone offer any advice before I try to re-install my Laptop. Not looking forward to that...

Cheers

 

could be a permissions error - are you a local admin on the machine ?

virtual memory should be 2xphysical ram for both initial and max size

 

Thanks guys,

Chris,

Yes, with no problems reported.

Ga22er,

I have admin rights...

Anyway, looks like I may have solved it

I think the problem was with the temp folder. The last Crystal report I ran must have left a huge temp file after it crashed, but it was not showing in explorer. I ran disk clean up, which looked like it hung when scanning the temp folder. After about half an hour it finally completed the scan and reported some huge files in the temp folder. I selected all the files to be deleted.

It now works fine

Thanks for your advice.

 

Have you run a CHKDSK on the drive?

My Computer > Right Click the drive > Properties > Tools

Does that help?

ChrisB.