THe disk I am saving to is full.....What does that mean?

@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
February 1, 2012 10:20am CST
I have Windows XP on HP PC. I have 2gig memory. I have 137 of those gigs free on my hard drive. I don't do tons of stuff on the PC to fill things up and all. I do have the current Adobe Reader and Mozilla Firefox browser I have been trying to downloan to my C: drive some quilting patterns. They aren't huge or anything, about 2 pages. I have a folder on my C: drive titled Quilting and htis is where I put these things. However, on the last 2 sites I have been to...when I click to download the free pattern it tells me... "THe disk you were saving to or the disk used for temporary files is full. Free some space on this disk and try again or save to a different disk" and won't let me download the page. What does that mean? What disk are they talking about? My hard drive has 137 gig available/free. I am not to technologically inclined on PC's...so anyone can help me I would appreciate it. How do I get these things to download to my hard drive? Thanks!
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• India
1 Feb 12
May be you can try cleaning your temporary files,registry,cookies,etc. You can download C Cleaner or Be Clean which deletes all these kind of files which are of no use. Or you can delete temporary files by StartRuntemp/TEMP/%temp%/%TEMP% I am not sure if this would really solve your problem.One thing you can use is System Restore ,may be this would solve your problem.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
1 Feb 12
I always do a system restore point each month. But in actually doing a system restore...doesn't that remove everything you have put on the hard drive and put it back to "as purchased" format? I have gone back to a saved restore point before, like to last months, but that was only to get rid of a problem with a program or something. Not sure why I have done it, only that it was something to "try" to get something else to work.
• Philippines
4 Feb 12
try to do this go to safe mode first check the task manager on the process tab those are the most important processes that you have on your computer write that down then go to msconfig startup tab remove everything that you don't use except for your antivirus, then go to services tab hide all microsoft services remove the one's that your familiar with that you don't really use that much then restart your computer after doing this try saving some files if it still doesn't work try copying some files from a flash drive or some where else into your C:\name of folder\ if it works then your problem is within the ram if it doesn't work there's something wrong like the worm.addrive that I once had before or your hard drive is really full try deleting unnecessary files then try copying it again if it still doesn't work try saving it to other hard drives that you have I think there's a problem with your OS just send a message and I'll help you have a nice day