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SBS 2008 falsely reporting no available disk space

I have SBS 2008 installed on a server with a single partition which I think may be the causing the problem I am having but hopefully not.

I have 300GB of free space but when I try to copy a substantial amount of data to a folder on C: it is not allowing me because it thinks the drive is full. Has anyone seen this? any help would be appreciated.

radnbne

When you say a substantial amount of data...how much are you copying?

J C

ASKER

15GB max

radnbne

What are you using to copy the data?

J C

ASKER

its just a copy/paste in explorer...I had previously been able to copy over large amount but at one point it started throwing that error.

Lee W, MVP

A quota is probably set for the user account you are using. Remove the Quota for the user OR increase it to beyond the amount you need to transfer.

Lee W, MVP

Not having partitions isn't necessarily causing this, however, it could complicate things because of quotas - make sure your network service accounts and domain admin accounts don't have quotas set or you could end up with issues later on as well.

J C

ASKER

This is my first time working with SBS 2008 so forgive me if this is a dumb question. I have looked everywhere and the only place I see a quota set is in my user account properties under folders but my assumption was that the 2GB quota set there only limits me inside of my user folder. This is a brand new installation. Can you tell me where else I should look for quotas that are set by default? In a GPO perhaps?

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J C

ASKER

Thanks for enlightening me man! I think that fixed it. Thank you very much for your help.