Annoying Warning Event Notification

I have checked my Hardisk and found that there are at least 24.7 GB (not 27 as mentioned) free space. So I don't think there are extraneous files. Is there any other way I can check my disk space?

Thank you
KHLIM55

KHLIM55,

Thank you for using Dell's Community Forum.

It looks to me that your HDD is full. You may want to look into deleting some extraneous files.

KHLIM55,  I expect a D-Latitude to run under Win XP.   If this so,  you might want to check your wastepaper-basket.   Empty it (if not already done), check its size and resize  to the size you desire.   It is set to 10 % of the total space if not adjusted, but can be much larger, if resized by some incident.

This will free up space which is not  really used.    It is your best chance.

The virtual memory file can be resized (my pagefile.sys 1.5 GigaByte in size)  and the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) can be deleted if not used (size of your main memory).   All temp files,  Internet history and temps can of course be deleted.      All this makes sense however only if you are really low on disk space. 

One more chance if the said condition is not really true (as you believe)   :   If you decided to partition and format the drive to FAT32 format,  and if you happen to save huge (2gb and above) files  --like movies--   in this case  a single large file can fill the FAT with more entries (to define its length)  than what the FAT can hold for one file.  When the limit is reached you'll receive a disk full condition, even though you have many gigabytes of space available.

Have success,              flortep

We are having the same problem on all of our Dell computers.  Disk Cleanups are run, defrags are done, and the Recycle bins are emptied and still, with more than 75% free space, we get the warning.  There needs to be a better answer that a pat "Sounds like your HDD is getting full."

 

C'mon, Dell - what is it?

Have you tried this:

Open My Computer

Right Click on C: drive (or the hard drive letter)

Properties

Quota

 

And set it up to not have a disk quota and you wont get the messages.

 

 

I am suprised DELL is so noncompliant about these issues.

 

 

Message Edited by nuffsaid420 on 01-10-2004 03:48 PM

You all must be using NTFS format. As for me, no thank you. I'll stick to FAT32.

I experienced the same thing. Here is how I resolved it.

The original machine was an Optiplex GX 270. Windows XP, NTFS. These are the only changes from out of the box:

installed Novel Client 4.9 SP1a

trivial user config (renamed CD-Rom drive letter, changed some Views)

took snapshot of entire drive to preserve factory installed config.

installed 15 MB Linux partition for Zen automatic imaging.

Re-installed snapshot from above.

 

... and then I too experienced the Event Notification telling me that my free hard drive space was dangeriously low. Machine has 1 IDE drive, which is 38.5 Gig (35 gigs of which is deffinitly still FREE). Hard Drive Quota management is NOT enabled. Having only rebooted 4 times and installing no software packages, its not even worth talking about checking temp folders and emptying recycle bin.

 However, I DID note that there was an extra, unexpected drive letter. It appears that there was a small (30 MB?) FAT partition named "D:\". I expect it was included at the factory, as it appeared full of Dell diagnostic tools. My suspicion is that the event notification was detecting a lack of space on the 30 MB FAT partition, rather than the 38 Gig NTFS one.

 I confirmed my suspicions by deleting the FAT partition (via Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management), at which point the notification stopped bothering me.

 It is impossible for me to say exactly when I first noticed the notification within my first 4 reboots. I think it may be that something about my modified parition setup might have "revealed" a hidden FAT partition... but it might have been there and error-ing out of the box as well.

It would be nice to get some feedback from Dell on exactly what this software is, how it works, and how to turn it off. The above "Uhh... Dude... you're hard drive is full" doesn't quite go in to as much depth as I'd like. The software looks on the surface like third party Dell specific, rather than windows standard. It would have been nice to know how to disable or un-install the malfunctioning software, rather than deleting a possibly useful FAT diagnostic partition.

 

 -= Nat

I found recently that W-XP sometimes installs with no page file activated. That can really slow things down. A vicar at my church complained about slow boot and operation with W-XP SP1. He only had 64mb RAM and that was increased to 128mb; that helped a bit, but, when I checked the Page File(Virtual Memory) Settings, it was dotmarked for No Page File. I changed it to System Managed and now his computer runs well. I advised him that he still needs about 64mb more RAM for the best results. After that experience, I had occasion to run W-XP on one of mine, and sure enough, it did the same thing;no page file!

Further research has shown:

The Software providing this alert notification is the Dell Openmanage Client instrumentation,

The Docs available online for this are at:

They mention that the typical default threshold for the alert is 50 MB of free space. No mention in the docs as to how to reset this threshold, or exempt certain drives or partitions. I have a post on another thread asking about this.

But as long as you don't mind losing the Openmanage features, you can un-install it from Add / Remove programs, where it's named OMCI.

We have a few GX270's with the same problem.  However, cannot remove the partition (E) from disk management.  And i'd rather not lose the OMCI features if possible.   Anybody know of another way to remove that partition?