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"Hard Disk Is
Low on Disk Space" Message
When free space on your computers hard disk falls below a specific
level, you may receive the following message:
Hard Disk is Low on Disk Space
You are running out of disk space on drive C.
To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click
Disk Cleanup.
These are the specific levels used by Windows 98:
| HD Size |
Threshold
Percentage |
Threshold
Space |
| <= 512 MB |
10.0 |
25.6 - 51.2 MB |
| <= 1 GB |
5.0 |
25.6 - 51.2 MB |
| <= 2 GB |
2.5 |
25.6 - 51.2 MB |
| <= 4 GB |
1.2 |
24.6 - 49.15 MB |
| <= 8 GB |
0.6 |
24.6 - 49.15 MB |
| <= 16 GB |
0.3 |
24.6 - 49.15 MB |
| <= 32 GB |
0.2 |
32.8 - 65.5 MB |
| > 32 GB |
0.1 |
32.8 - ?? MB |
If you do not want to receive this error message, and do not want to
use the Disk Cleanup tool to free disk space:
- Start the Registry
Editor
- Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \
Control \ FileSystem
- Select Edit > New > DWORD Value and name it DisableLowDiskSpaceBroadcast
- Set the data value of the DisableLowDiskSpaceBroadcast
value to the appropriate value from the following TABLE:
| A |
1 |
| B |
2 |
| C |
4 |
| D |
8 |
| E |
16 |
| F |
32 |
| G |
64 |
| H |
128 |
| I |
256 |
| J |
512 |
| K |
1024 |
| L |
2048 |
| M |
4096 |
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| N |
8192 |
| O |
16384 |
| P |
32768 |
| Q |
65536 |
| R |
131072 |
| S |
262144 |
| T |
524288 |
| U |
1048576 |
| V |
2097152 |
| W |
4194304 |
| X |
8388608 |
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If you want to disable the error message for more than one drive,
you can add the data values of the drives located in the TABLE, and
then set the data value of the DisableLowDiskSpaceBroadcast
value using the sum of the data values that you added. For example,
drive E has a value of 16 and drive G has a value of 64. These two
data values added together equal 80. To disable the low disk space
notification for drive E and drive G, set the data value of the
DisableLowDiskSpaceBroadcast value to 80.
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