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Solution to Low Disk Space Warning

May 16, 2008 by Amit Bhawani

Hard Disk Drive ATALow Disk Space Warning is not a new message and this is a general notification which is shown by the windows operating system when any of your hard disk drive’s partition is out of space and cannot accept any new data into it. There is no serious problem when this kind of message is displayed in the status bar.

Low Disk SpaceThere can be a problem when the low disk in on the drive where your operating system is installed since the OS needs readily available space to perform actions and run applications and if its on low disk space, problems get started. When the ‘Low Disk Space’ message comes up and you click on it you get a Disk Cleanup Wizard which is a inbuilt feature of Windows Operating system and it helps you in removing some useless files and folders from your computer.

Here are some of the notification timits setup by default :
When your disk space is less than 200 Mb , Notifications are shown for 10 seconds.
When your disk space is less than 80 Mb , Notifications are shown every 4 hours.
When your disk space is less than 50 Mb , Notifications are shown for 30 seconds every 5minutes in order to make sure that you perform the Disk Check up wizard and increase some free space on your hard disk drive.

Because of this Low Disk problem you cannot create or add new data on the hard drive and the only option would be to move all your important data to a online backup or to a external hard disk.A low disk problem can also make your computer Crash, Disable any Antivirus / Anti Spyware program and also shut down any large running applications.

Hard Disk Cleanup Properties

Another Option would be to right click on your drive and selecting the properties section. Following which you click on the Disk Cleanup which will start scanning your complete drive and try to compress old files in order to save some disk space. Its also always recommended to convert your hard disk to NTFS because the new file system makes you compress the files in a better way and you can save up some more hard disk space.

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About Amit Bhawani

My name is Amit Bhawani and here I like to share my internet/tech experience with my online readers. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram at @AmitBhawani

Comments

  1. Rockstar Sid says

    May 16, 2008 at 7:21 am

    My computer has 2 gb space left,i have only 40Gb HDD,also i diabled the notifications and tried clearing some rar /zip files,gotta buy a new one soon!

    • unknown says

      June 11, 2011 at 5:48 am

      reformat ur computer… 😀 thats my answer

  2. Make money says

    May 16, 2008 at 11:28 am

    I receive “low memory” notification
    what to do ?

  3. Amit Bhawani says

    May 16, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Didnt i just post a solution the same in this post? 🙂

  4. Make money says

    May 17, 2008 at 4:34 am

    no.. i was asking about low RAM warnings.

  5. m.dinesh says

    July 13, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Wow, Amit your blog is really helpful,
    I bookmarked your blog and even i will subscribe now, I really love these great tips and thank you for redirecting me here. Till now i dint know that this problem can even crash our hard disk.

    But i dont think windows operating system should warn us if we have 200mb left because i think there wont be any problem.

  6. dheeraj reddy says

    July 17, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Dear sir I m having a P.C .Which is having 80GB Hard disk .Each drive is divided into 20Gb each. my C drive is having 10gb emty space , But because of some problem (might be effect of the viruses)it showing a message at the bottom of the task bar indicating ” low Disk Space”and it also killing my drive space……Because of this problem its unable to work on my PC…….
    Please Suggest Me some USeful Solution ,Or latest anti virus which i can download easily from the internet for free of cost….

  7. Amit Bhawani says

    July 17, 2008 at 11:37 am

    @ Dheeraj Reddy : Check out these Antivirus Programs

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