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Old Dec 17, 2010, 05:57 AM   #1
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Don't Let Your System Drive Fill All the Way Up!
My older son learned the hard way tonight to keep an eye on how full his system drive is getting. And, I thought he already knew better.

Anyway, the drive had become almost completely full. Then, along came the Windows Updates for last night and....

BootMGR Missing

Had to go digging around for the install disk just to repair the Start Up part so he could get back into Windows at all. First thing I did was move his PageFile to another drive and remove it from his System Drive. But, the status indicator on that drive was completely RED with not even a small portion of white showing.

He's presently in the process of moving some data around now.

Doesn't Windows 7 throw up a warning when the drive is getting too full?
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Doesn't Windows 7 throw up a warning when the drive is getting too full?
Many. Alarm bells (well, popups) would be going off every chance Windows gets and any time you visit Computer you're presented with a dirty great red bar screaming for help.

So, you're ending up with a smaller "family photos" album?
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strange..

i filled a drive right to actually telling me that there was roughly 900kb free space left.. windows 7 really doesn't like that.. but lets you continue on anyways..

at which point it starts to adjust the hibernation or page files to allow for a little more room.. however windows update has either FAILED due to lack of space, or completed without error under these circumstances..

And if you need to know... i was using a 40gb Hardrive at the time... golden oldy from 8+ years ago.

I'm wondering if something else didn't happen.... remember there is also that "reserve" space... that i was under the impression resolves startup errors and hold additional boot information. Did he delete this?
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To my knowledge and understanding, he hadn't done anything other than shut the PC down while he was at work. Then, when he came home and started it up, there was no BootMGR.

I'm thinking that Windows Update was set to Download files and Prompt to do the Updates. That may have allowed the overflow of data that corrupted the drive when he went to shut it down and it ran the installation. But, that's all just conjecture on my part at this time as I wasn't there or even involved until it got corrupted.
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I got to less than 1GB left on my SSD and had no warning. Rectified it before it became a problem - if it would have been a problem.
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