WindWagonSmith Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Is my spanking new 3.6" Barracuda not formatted right?Or *do I need to do something different with uTorrent now that I've upgraded my storage capabilities*?Details:I can see 'New Volume' when I'm looking at my computer info.and when I right-click New Volume and go to Properties I see1.36 TB Free space... yet all my files in uTorrent are coming backwith the 'not enough space on disk' error.I've even gone under Options> Preferences> Directories>Location of torrents and arranged for the torrents to be stored in this new disk.Still I get the error.I'm confused.Is there something in the FAQ etc (that I'm not seeing) that may help?Thanks for any advice you can offer.WWSP.S.I have a HP Pavilion a1610nwith XP Media Center 2005 stuff in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnurlos Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 If you have finished that torrents on your "old" harddisk, you can move them to the new one.(Stop that torrent, move the files/folder, rightclick the torrent, advanced, set new download location, start that torrent again).Otherwise check if the filesystem is NTFS and not FAT32 because of file size limitations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindWagonSmith Posted April 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Thanks for answering!I erased all my files before I took it to the store so I'm starting from scratch...no need to transfer anything.As far as FAT32 and file size limitations...would that change with the new disk?How can I check?Also, these are average sized files...700Mb, 900Mb etc...being rejected and I had no problem downloading *before* I began getting this error (i.e. once my usual, old Hard Disk filled up!)Edit: Weird. It started working all by itself and now it's stopped again.I even got three more downloads completed before it decided there wasn't any space again.What the hell is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blinding Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 To check on fat32 vs NTFS click on "my computer" then right click on the new disk and select properties. That should tell you what type of file system it is as well as other information.Could it be another disk that is full? Run start-all proframs-accessories-system tools- disk defragment. Not to defragment but just to get a quck list of what file systems you have and how much free space is on each one.Utorrent uses several directories. You may have moved the downloads but there could still be control files going into your C drive. For example the .torrent files typically go in to: C:\Documents and Settings\yourname.FILES\Application Data\uTorrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Under Option Preferences, check where your "temp" directory is. Its probably pointing to a full drive, a non-existent drive, or a network drive that is disconnected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 The system drive (almost always C:) needs free space to operate.The easiest way to make some room is by moving some stuff from your system drive to your new drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindWagonSmith Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Well, I've just been cutting and pasting the files from Documents into the new disk which is J:This is a time consuming thing.I have gone under Options>Preferences>Directoriesand changed both the 'Location(s) of download files' to J:Nothing, they still end up in documents.So, again, the tab that says 'Put new downloads in'...and the tab that says 'Put completed dowloads in' both have J:\ as the destination.But they are still coming up in my documents folder and staying there until I physically move them to J:.'Store torrents in' option says "J:" as well.'Only move from the default directory' is checked.could this be the problem?I wish I could post a screen shot but can't seem to be able to.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957180Perhaps it may have to do with disk fragmentation. Do you have diskio.sparse_files enabled? If so, disable it.If this is indeed the problem, then to fix the files giving you problems, you'll need to make a copy of them and use the copies instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindWagonSmith Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 diskio.sparse_files is false.My main question is why aren't the files going where I'm directing them to go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Existing torrents are not affected by a change to the default download location. As is clear from the name ("Put new downloads in"), the option affects only torrents added after the option is set. You have to move the existing torrents yourself, and set the download location in µTorrent via the torrent job context menu's Advanced > Set download location... item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindWagonSmith Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Thanks Ultima, I'm going to erase everything and start fresh.Hopefully this will work.UPDATE:It worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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