Spikey wrote:
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:%23%23r6FD4OHHA.5012@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> Finally there were a couple of small game saves (we think) on D. Given
> >> that hes always saved to his docs which were targeted to C docs and
> >> setting etc, how did they get there (excluding user error)?
>
> Would an Acer
> >> (XP home) laptop be capable of automatically start saving to D if C was
> >> overflowing? I realise its all the same drive but my understanding was
> >> that once partitioned they are regarded as 2 separate drives.
> >>
>
> Thanks Wesley, I've got a much better understanding of it now.
> Its reporting 4 KB clusters. I assume thats a default setting when you use
> NTFS instead of fat32/16?
>
> Any idea on the "overflow" query? He's using the laptop on the original
> settings it came with. But I assumed it was standard notebook set up to
> target "My Documents" to D:\ when the drive is partitioned. I suppose on
> first use he may have been given a choice of saving to C:\ or D:\ ?
>
> :o)

It will not automatically "overflow" it'll tell you you're out of space.