I am going to look at an XP system tomorrow where the owner says it was running very slow. She was getting 'disk full' warnings (which she ignored), now she says it won't start up at all-no details beyond that, but she appears to be getting BSOD when she tries to start up, if I understand her description correctly.
I didn't think that a full hard disk would actually refuse to boot, just that it would be difficult to open any programs or save files etc-doesn't Windows reserve sufficient space to run it's own system files?
If this is the case, what is the best approach please-should I try starting up in Safe Mode or Last Known Good Config, then free up some disk space?
I'm told the antivirus has expired as well which adds another little problem to the mix...
I didn't think that a full hard disk would actually refuse to boot, just that it would be difficult to open any programs or save files etc-doesn't Windows reserve sufficient space to run it's own system files?
If this is the case, what is the best approach please-should I try starting up in Safe Mode or Last Known Good Config, then free up some disk space?
I'm told the antivirus has expired as well which adds another little problem to the mix...