full hard drive

[Lana]

can anyone tell me what to do if a harddrive gets to full of information to continue to operate and won't allow the fdisk option and the person really doesn't really want to loose the information it

[confus-ed]

You have a post in the lounge on exactly the same topic, I appreciate you might want an answer NOW ... but Please refrain from making multiple posts on the same topic, thank you!

Now I've told you off , lets proceed with your problem as this post is in the right section.

First thing to clear up is your 'mis-understanding' of FDISK - Fdisk is a program to Modify Partition Information, Partitions are 'logical containers' which generally equate to drive letters, partitions are the 'Son' object in a hierarchical tree which starts with physical drives(father), & contains partitions(son), which in turn contain directories(grand child) & their 'great grand-child' objects:- files.

You use Fdisk to 'chop' physical drives into suitable sized logical objects;- partitions, when you do this you erase the contents of that ! (there are other uses, but generally...) - changing partition information with FDISK can have the same net effect on your files as FORMAT (potentially worse in 'unskilled' hands). The usual way to use FDISK is before any data is present.So completely forget about that ! If you want to keep your files, anyway

Can you tell us what o/s ?

There are a number of solutions for your dilema, all of them include delete, however I get the feeling you are gonna require 'precise guidance' on the subject, so lets make sure we give you that ..

[Prince Abaddon]

can anyone tell me what to do if a harddrive gets to full of information to continue to operate and won't allow the fdisk option and the person really doesn't really want to loose the information it

get a new Hard drive