Not Enopugh Disk Space

[bearskin]

a friend formatted his hard drive and installed win98se....it was a small 4.3 gig drive.

he was reinstalling some of his programs and told me about something odd.

he is using ms money and it wouldn't setup.

I looked at his computer and there were almost 3 gigs free but when I tried to install ms money (under 2 Mb.) a screen came up saying that he didn't have enough hard drive space to install ms money.

the setup told us there was less than 3Mb but actually there was at least 3 Gb.

anyone have any thought about this?

[martymas]

hi bearskin

get him to check his memory

that can some times use up a lot of resources

marty

[TheTerrorist_75]

Try wiping the drive with KillDisk then format it again.

[JDoors]

When you're looking there may be that much free (which is too close to what MSM needs anyway) but during the install the Windows swapfile may be taking up more space.

Uninstall any extra programs and install Money as the first app.

[bearskin]

thanks guys...I never did figure out what was wrong but I did figure out a way to get it to work....

instead of using the install disk we just copied all the files to his C drive....with no problems.

clicked on the exe. file and the darn thing worked....I still don't understand that as some files had to be unpacked.

must have been a problem with the install program on the disk.

I did learn one thing...ms money only needs 3 files to work...the exe file, the config file, and the .bak file.

have a good day y'all.