Office Setup Returns Incorrect Amount of Free Disk Space
Article ID: 139883
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q139883
SYMPTOMS
When you install Microsoft Office 97 or Microsoft Office for Windows 95
to a hard disk that has more than 1 gigabyte (GB) of available disk
space, the Setup program lists the space available as 999,999K,
regardless of the actual available free disk space.
CAUSE
This behavior is by design. The Setup program is unable to recognize
volumes larger than 1 GB; therefore, a value of 0 is reported from the
operating system during the search for available disk space. Setup
changes the 0 value to 999,999K to make sure that enough space is
reported for Setup to continue.
Additional query words: XL7 ppt95 ppt97 ppt8 8.00 97 off97
Keywords: KB139883