Reinstalling from backup disks

Roary said:

After cleaning my hard-drive and getting my computer up and going fairly well, I inserted the last six backup disks, i.e. the last ones I did before cleaning, and the computer told me there was not sufficient space to install these files. How could this be since they are the files that came off that computer before I cleaned it. There are many less files there now than before I made the backups so why would there not be sufficient space to re-install those files. This does not make sense to me. What might the answer be?

Roary

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zigzag3143 said:

Roary said:

After cleaning my hard-drive and getting my computer up and going fairly well, I inserted the last six backup disks, i.e. the last ones I did before cleaning, and the computer told me there was not sufficient space to install these files. How could this be since they are the files that came off that computer before I cleaned it. There are many less files there now than before I made the backups so why would there not be sufficient space to re-install those files. This does not make sense to me. What might the answer be?

Roary

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The back up disks may be looking for "free" space and besides the OS partition there may not be enough. can you give us the relevant indo. how big is the drive, what partitions, how much free etc.

ken

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Roary said:

zigzag3143 said:

Roary said:

After cleaning my hard-drive and getting my computer up and going fairly well, I inserted the last six backup disks, i.e. the last ones I did before cleaning, and the computer told me there was not sufficient space to install these files. How could this be since they are the files that came off that computer before I cleaned it. There are many less files there now than before I made the backups so why would there not be sufficient space to re-install those files. This does not make sense to me. What might the answer be?

Roary

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The back up disks may be looking for "free" space and besides the OS partition there may not be enough. can you give us the relevant indo. how big is the drive, what partitions, how much free etc.

ken

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Thank you for your response. Here is my Computer Profile:
Operating System - Windows Vista HP Service Pack 1
Processor:
2.20 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Drives:
2.77.50 gigabytes Usable hard Drive
162.55 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

Is this helpful.

Roary

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