Disk Full

[techer]

What are you supposed to do when the disk that contains Pagefile.sys on an NT server is full?

I am running a server with WinNT 4 on the C: drive and the pagefile.sys file on d:, which also contains an installation of CA ArcServe 2000.

Yesterday, ArcServe sh@t itself and it's log files & database have chewed up all available disk space on that volume. The server is running, and currently one of our Admin accounts has it locked.

We basically cannot unlock the server (using CTRL+ALT+DEL) to get on and delete those log files. We can't log on as the local Administrator account either. Attempts result in the "Only the DOMAIN\account account can unlock..." message. We also cannot remotely connect to the server via the network. Attempts to open network shares result in "Not enough storage space is available to process this command".

Basically all we can do is ping the server.

Please help us!!!

 

[jasonboyes]

A few questions.

Can you access the D drive from another computer on the network mapping D$ or something like that. Remember D$ can only be accessed by an admin account. If so delete the files the CA ArcServe 2000 has created. After that if you could put the page file. After you have cleared the space. Try and put that paging file on a volume that doesnt get filled up with data.

Jason
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[SgtB]

What file system? If its FAT go in the using a win9x boot disk and delete some files. If its NTFS, then you can use NTFS_Pro (

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdospro.shtml

)

The read only if free, but the read/write (which you'll need) you got to buy.

I've never heard of NT not letting you log on simply becasue the drive is full though.
Your error say's that only Domain\account can unlock it. Is that a domain admin accout? If so, have you tried using that?
Have you tried powering down the server manually? Then rebooting? (Last resort)

Try above suggestions before purchasing NTFS_Pro. ________________________________________
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