my hard drive died on me the other day now i'm stuck using a 1.1gig hard drive running windows me the software i have installed is winzip,winrar and Punch! Professional Home Design Suite so i only have 93mb of free space so what i need to know is how much free space bryce5 needs to be installed. oh the program Punch! Professional Home Design Suite home: http://customer.stream.com/Support/Punch/Punch1.nsf/WebRegistration?OpenForm is handy if you want to create buildings of any type but it only exports in dxf format this program needs over 200mb of space worth a look.

187 Mb, with 75% of this for presets.

Don't do it. When windows is running it opens several files, and so do your apps. When you close down if there is insufficient space to save those files, your system will crash big time and you'll be doing a sector by sector recovery to retrieve your data. If you have a lot of ram and are daring........ you can disable your virtual memory, which should give you more hard drive space. You'll find that your system runs way faster right up to the point where it rams out and then it will black screen and reboot. Win can restore from ramming out but it can't restore from running out of HD space.

By a new hdd......I had to....groan! The Bryster (Chris)

And if you can, try and upgrade to Windows XP or go to Windows 2K. I had nothing but probs with ME. I had 2 UNRECOVERABLE crashes from ME and lost it all, TWICE. You can pick up a capacity HD pretty cheap. You can get an 80Gig for under $100.

Harddisks are cheap these days.

the reason i'm using a 800mb hard drive is becouse my 10gig stoped working i even went into bios to do an auto detect all my work is on it. oh and to boomer (80Gig for under $100. ) ya right not here in canada can i find an 80 gig for under $100. for an 40 gig $149. canadian $$$.

well this is strange after having my 10 gig disconnected for a week i hooked it back up but as a slave and bios found it this time so at desk top i checked to see if windows seen it yep it did but it seen my 10 gig twice but now it's been fdisk and formated with XP Pro installed. and about buying a hard drive that way i would i live in abbotsford british columbia canada at the sumas u.s.a/canada border if sombody lives near here let me know.

congratulations with getting your disk back working.

Hey Deadman: You mean you didn't lose tons of data? The Bryster (Chris)

no still lost all my data my hard driv still would not boot up so i FDISK it then formated it and re-installed xp pro. but the most important thing is i'm able to use it.