[access-uk] Re: Update to my drive space issue
- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:02:23 -0000
Hi George - I did have some sighted help look at it a couple of days ago, and
to all intents and purposes, it appeared as if we were doing things correctly.
I had JFW on a pen drive, and chose custom install for the programme.
All I did under custom install, was to change the destination from the c drive,
to the d drive or partition, and according to my sighted help, that look to be
ok, but when I click the install button, I got a message telling me there
wasn't enough space on the chosen volumes, this was because it was trying to
install 133mb of JFW to the c drive, and just 27mb to the d drive. I've no idea
why it wanted to split the installation in this way, or why it wouldn't install
the whole programme to the d drive as selected. So, even with sighted help, I'm
stumped, and could do with some more ideas as to what I might do, I know I
could buy a programme such as Partition Magic, to increase the c drive from
it's meager 4gb, but am not convinced this will solve the problem, as I have
7gb of free space on the d partition, but this system is not allowing me to
install jfw to it. -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:10 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Update to my drive space issue
Hi Andy - I hate to say this, but I'm afraid you may be forced to enlist some
sighted help here.
George.
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
ANDY COLLINS
Sent: 20 February 2010 19:18
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Update to my drive space issue
Hi George - Haven't yet managed/had time, to look more in to those $uninstall
files; I've been using Narrator [can't seems to get JFW to install to the D
partition, wonder if you know why this might be?] and I find it difficult to
hear Narrator, not just the tone of the voice, but the volume of Narrator is
pretty quiet too; if I could only get JFW installed on my D partition, which
has 7gb of available capacity, I'd be in a much better situation. -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:26 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Update to my drive space issue
Hi Andy,
One thought is to check out if the Microsoft Works Installation Files are
still there.
It's a pity you didn't try to run Disk Cleanup immediately removing Works,
since that may have picked that up.
BTW, did you get rid of those Update $ files I told you about in an earlier
message?
George.
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
ANDY COLLINS
Sent: 19 February 2010 17:47
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Update to my drive space issue
Hi all -
Problem update:
Thanks to certain suggestions, I've managed to free up some drive space,
but still can't reinstall JFW [I want to reinstall to the D:\ partition,
and not the C:\ where it originally resided].
Here's what's happened in detail, please bear with me, and hope I've
made sense, as I very much need to resolve this.
This issue is on an XP netbook, which seems to have turned off System
Restore automatically because of low disk space, I know this, because I
get a message telling me to free 200mb in order to turn it on again.
I've now managed to delete some programmes that came pre-installed, such
as Office Works, and Star Office, and Acrobat reader, but here's my
current problem. with All the above installed, along with JFW, together,
they produced the low disk space message, so firstly, I uninstalled JFW =
planning to reinstall it from a pen drive, to the d:\ partition [the c:\
is where the OS resides, and where all programmes have installed by
default.]
I then found I couldn't get JFW to install to the D:\ drive, even though
I chose the custom install, and change the drive from C:\ to D:\. What
was happening was that when I clicked the install button, I got a
message telling me that there wasn't enough space on the chosen volumes
for the installation, it wanted to install 132mb to the C:\ drive, and
27mb to the D:\ drive. I had some sighted help, and it looked as if we
had chosen the d:\ as the destination, and couldn't figure out why the =
installation wanted to put the bulk of the installation on the C:\
drive, and that small 27mb on the D:\ drive. What it was saying in
respect of the C:\ drive, was that it needed 132mb, and there was only
45 mb free space, thus giving a deficit of 87mb.
As we couldn't get any further with this, we uninstalled the above
mentioned programmes, which through up another strange issue; for
example, it says that the Office Works programme was 400mb, but when we
uninstalled it, it only gave us back about 180mb of drive space. Although
we were puzzled about this, we thought we'd have a go at
installing JFW back to the C:\ drive, where it originally resided, but
when we tried, we got a message telling us that JFW needed 160mb, and we
only had 132mb, begging the question, what the hell had happened to the
extra capacity of a few minutes earlier, that said there was 185mb free?
Hope this makes sense.
Being totally frustrated by now, we decided to turn off, before it got
chucked out of the window! but when doing so, we then got a screen
telling us that updates were being installed, and not to turn off, so we
left them to install. After they had done so [35 items] our capacity had
come all the way down to 19mb!
Can anybody offer any thought/ideas/counselling :)
Thanks
Andy
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