Hard Disk Is Low on Disk Space Message During Windows 98 Setup (191489)

SYMPTOMS

When you run Windows 98 Setup from within Windows 98, you may receive the following message or one similar to it:

   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.

Note that you may receive this message even if you have sufficient free space on your hard disk.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur when Setup is copying files to your computer. If this causes the free disk space on your computer to reach the low disk space notification threshold associated with the Disk Cleanup utility, this message is generated.

RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior, click Cancel in the "Hard Disk is Low on Disk Space" dialog box, or disable Disk Cleanup before running Setup.

To disable Disk Cleanup before running Setup, follow these steps:

Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup.
Click the drive where Windows is installed, and then click OK.
Click the Settings tab, click the "If this drive runs low on disk space, automatically run Disk Cleanup" check box to clear it, and then click OK.
When you receive the "Are you sure you want to delete files" prompt, you can click Yes or No. If you click Yes, Disk Cleanup deletes files as specified on the Disk Cleanup tab. If you click No, the files are not deleted. Either choice quits Disk Cleanup.