[access-uk] Re: Update to my drive space issue
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:32:21 -0000
Hi Andy - I'd actually meant a sighted person to help delete stuff
from the main partition.
However, your idea of Partition Magic is sound. Apportioning the
spare 4 GB makes a great deal of sense.
George.
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of ANDY COLLINS
Sent: 21 February 2010 12:02
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Update to my drive space issue
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 <mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 <mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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