Setup Err Msg: Insufficient Hard Drive Space

ID: Q121471

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Office for Windows, version 4.0, 4.2, 4.3
• Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0
• Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, version 4.0
• Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0

SUMMARY

When you install Microsoft Office to a compressed drive, the following error may occur even if the setup program reports that there is enough space on the hard drive at the beginning of the installation:

      "Insufficient Hard Drive Space"

MORE INFORMATION

There are two possible causes for this error message when you are installing to a compressed drive even though there appears to be ample disk space:

• Many executable and supporting files are already compressed. Compression programs report space available based on a projected estimate of the level of compression that can be applied by the utility. When these files are saved to the hard drive, they use up more space than the compression program anticipates, and the installation runs out of hard disk space.

  -or-

• There is less than 7 megabytes (MB) of uncompressed space on the host drive. To increase the amount of space on the host drive, reduce the size of the Windows swap file or consult your drive compression utility documentation to reallocate more space to the host drive.

WORKAROUND

Setting the swap file to NONE in the Windows Control Panel, Enhanced icon should free hard drive space on the host drive. (This is the fastest and most direct route to freeing hard drive space on the host drive.) Temporary Swap Files can be established on the Compressed Volume File which makes up the logical drive. Be aware that if you have a Temporary Swap File, setting it to NONE, may not free any disk space on the host drive.

You should set the Swap File to a smaller number before you try to reallocate disk space using the compression utility. Many compression utilities do not support growing the Compressed Volume File, so once you have reduced the size of the Compressed Volume File, the change might be permanent.

To gain more accurate estimates of the free disk space remaining with the compression, set the estimated compression ratio equal to the Actual Compression ratio.

The products discussed here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q100911
   TITLE     : "MS-DOS Err Msg with DoubleSpace: Insufficient Disk Space"

Additional reference words: 4.00 dblspace 4.20 6.00 5.00 power point excel winword word dos stac

Last Reviewed: September 10, 1996