Is there a download virus? (1 Viewer)

[Len Cheong]

I try to download stuff now and it always stops before the last 100k and says you have run out of space on your drive. Do I have a virus? Does anybody get this. I definitely have space left.

 

[Kevin P]

Do you have more than one drive or partition (e.g. a C drive and a D drive)? If your Temp or Temporary Internet Files folder is on C, and you run out of space, even if you're downloading to the D drive, you can get an error.

Also, if you have corruption on the drive, it could cause a problem. Run Chkdsk on NT/2000/XP or Scandisk on 95/98/ME to check this.

So, in short, check the free space on all your drives. Also, if you run low on swap space you can get problems like that too. I recommend that the drive Windows is installed on not drop below say about 100MB of free space (depending on the total size of the drive).

KJP

 

[Gordon Moore]

If you are using ie, try bumping up your temporary internet files folder size. It may be affecting your download.

ToolsInternet OptionsSettings(in the Temporary Internet Files section)

 

[Len Cheong]

Thanks, I'll try all the suggestions.