A full integrated server system drive

The system drive contains the Windows server operating system and may contain applications and data as well. If this drive fills up, it can cause such errors as full drive messages and paging file errors.

To keep the system drive from filling up, take one or more of these steps:

• Increase the size of the system drive during the installation of Windows server.
• When you install applications, install them on a user-defined storage space instead of taking the default of installing them to your system drive.
• Move your Windows server paging file to a user-defined storage space instead of defaulting to the system drive. If you move your paging file, you will not be able to collect a system-memory dump if a STOP error or blue screen occurs. However, if you want to do this, follow these steps:
  1. Right-click the My Computer icon and select Properties.
  2. Select the Advanced tab.
  3. Click the Performance options button.
  4. Click the Change button for Virtual Memory.
  5. Select a user-defined storage space that has the amount of free space that you need.
  6. Click OK.
• Move your Windows server memory dump to a user-defined storage space instead of defaulting to the system drive. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Go to Start, then Settings, then Control Panel.
  2. Click the Startup/Shutdown tab.
  3. Select the Write debugging information to box in the Recovery section of the panel.
  4. Select a user-defined storage space that has enough free space (about 12 MB larger than your RAM size). Refer to the Windows documentation for additional recommendations and requirements for page size.
  5. Click OK.

  Note:

  If you move your Windows server memory dump to a user-defined space, you will have to copy the dump file to tape to send it to technical support.

• If the problem still persists, check the technical information databases at the IBM iSeries Support Web page . If you cannot find the solution there, contact your technical support provider.