Re: XP Embededed, 1.8GB out of 3.9GB used, says no free space.

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From: Howard Smith (hsmith_at_nospam-dynamax.co.uk)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:33:42 -0000

My advice would be to return it to Lacie for repair. This newsgroup is for
OEM's like Lacie on how to build XPe images for deployment, not how to
repair them. Only Lacie will be familiar with how their image was built and
configured.

Regards

Howard Smith

"spacemancw" <spacemancw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fbb1f69b.0402050907.369684d5@posting.google.com...
> I'm admining a Lacie Ethernet Disk for a client. I called Lacie about
> this problem
> but they were unable to help.
>
> My client is using Mac OS 9.2 for all desktops. The Lacie 80GB
> Ethernet Disk comes with XP Embedded Version 5.1 (Build
> 2600xpsp1.020828-120)
>
> The disk has a C dirve, 3.9GB and a D drive, 70GB. The C drive has the
> XP OS and the D drive has the network shares.
> By default when you put this thing on the network you can connect to
> it via SMB and Appleshare. This was working fine for 2 months.
>
> Now we cannot see the disk from the Mac using Appleshare. But we can
> connect via SMB. My client uses Mac OS 9 which has no SMB client so
> temporarily I installed a trial version of 'Dave Client' which is
> working fine.
>
> Back to the real problem. So I log onto the disk using Remote
> Desktop Connection. I open 'My Computer' and I see Local Disk (C) and
> Local Disk (D).
> I mouseover C and see Free Space 0 bytes, Total Size 3.90GB. The D has
> 53GB free, 70GB total.
>
> The problem is that the C drive is NOT full. If I select all files and
> folders and get properties I see a collective size of 1.8GB. So there
> is 2.1GB missing.
>
> What is using this 2.1GB? At the DOS prompt, I do 'dir'and it says no
> free space. In Computer Management it shows the C as no free
> space.Possibly virtual memory,
> but I could be way wrong. The VM
> property sheet shows paging file as System Managed Size, currently
> 136MB. The box itself has 128MB physical RAM.
>
> When the share is visible on the network, only the D drive is
> available. Users do not have access to the C Drive. The only way to
> get to the C drive is via remote log in. Nothing has been installed on
> the C Drive. And as it is XP Embedded, Disk Cleanup is not present.
> There is no
> CD ROM so I can't boot it from a CD.
>
> In Services I see "Miramar Appletalk File Server" with Automatic
> startup, but not started. This is obviously why the Macs cannot
> access via Appleshare. When I try to start it I get:
>
> Errors occured during the system rebuild operation. Please view the
> DOS text file for an error report.
>
> So I presume there's some attempt to write to disk (which is
> apparently full). And what is the the DOS text file anyway?
>
> Anyhow, why is it saying no free space, what is taking up my disk
> space and how do I recover my diskspace? I let Lacie login remotely
> but
> they had no clue.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanx
>
> Roger

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