HELP!! My download stopped because of low hd space. What can I do????

[Mr. CPU]

Hi,
I was dowloading the demo of TOCA race drivers and when it hit 62.3mb completed so far it stopped and my pc said I had run out of space on drive C. I deleted some files so I now have 60mb on my HD and the download has not continued yet. As of right now im still on the net and I still have the download open. I am using the defualt download program that comes with all pre-built pc's. What can I do to resume my download?

Thanks A Lot,
Andy

[venom9007]

What download program would that be?

[Oni]

He's talking about something like the IE downloader thingy.

I think you're sol my friend. Maybe you should invest in a real downloader program, like Getright.

[IcarusFalling]

It sounds to me like you should start doing some house cleaning.

Try clearing out some more files, you should have more space then the download is going to take.

As for your download, you may as well start it again, AFAIK there is now method for resuming downloads under windows, without using an after market downloader.

[Wombat Woo]

I never did understand why when you download a file with windows it would download the file to a temp directory and THEN copy that file to the folder you wanted it downloaded to, to begin with.

Download resumers like getright don't bother doing stupid stuff like that. It will download the file into the directory that you want it to.

Yeah and like Icarus said. You really really need to clean house. If you didn't manually set your virutual memory size and all it has to play with is 60 megs, thats like not good at all. Your harddrive has to be thrashing like crazy.

[IcarusFalling]

The reason (i'm assuming) that windows dl's to a temp directory is so that in the case that a download doesn't work. Cpt. AOL user doesn't try to use a broken file and call alsorts of tech support people becuae in his infinite wisdom, if a file is there then obviously it works.

[Stoanhart]

Go to your games directory. Look what's there. Whenever I run out of room, I just backup some saved games sand delete the games i haven't worked on in a couple of months. If your using winXP, try converting to NTFS and using disc compression. I usually benchmark a game, then compress it, then benchmark it again. The biggest difference i have seen is like 6 FPS. If the game runs good while compressed, leave it compressed. About 3/4 of my games are compressed and that gave me 500MB. Also, when you download things, especially game demos or other big things, install then and then burn the download on a backup cd. I have a series of CDs that go from backups 1 to backups 6. Every time I have 700MB worth of downloads, i burn them.

edit: Thought of some more. Go through you temp directory and see how big it is. Also, look for any ISO's that may not have been deleted after a burn. just search for a file with at least 400MB. Also, just go through the uninstall list in the control pannel. I'm sure you'll see some things you dont use anymore

As for the download (i dont know if you still have it open or not), i have resumed a download many times. It doesn't always work, but if you go to the website again and click on the same link and save to the same place while the download is still open (or maybe right after you close it, too, though im not sure), it sometimes continues where it left off. Still, get getright. it's the best of all the download managers.

[Wombat Woo]

Can't that drive compressing, that windows does be a real strain on your harddrive resulting in much disk thrashing and a better chance for bad sectors in the long run?