Error message, insufficient space on disk for temporary files, when attemping recovery. Solved!

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Error message, insufficient space on disk for temporary files.... Solved!

 

If you get this error when trying to use the recovery disks that you made and discovered it is impossible to reset to factory settings or use brand new disks which you just paid $20 for and you get the same error message.

 

You may not find any info to fix this doing a Google search, you'll find many times people had this issue but could not find a solution. 

 

You may find that you pc is out of warranty and that you cannot contact the mnfcr unless you pay then more money for help even though you just bought a brand new restore set of diskettes.

 

Here is what I discovered accidently only because I had a bootable USB with windows 7 ISO on it.  It was during the process of doing a clean install (see win7 forums) that right up front you can see hard drive partition information. I saw one partition which was 100 mb in size and another partition that was 343.8 GB in size.

 

Apparently the restore disks try to use the tiny partition and therefor I got the error message that there was insufficient space on the disk for the temporary files.

 

What I did or what needs to be done is to make a bootable cd or dvd or USB with a utility to make cahnages to the hard drive, you need to make one big partition!  It seems that when the system disks is supposed to erase and format the hard drive, it does not, therefore you have to do it yourself.

 

Once I did this I was able to do a retore except that I still got stuck right at the very end by another error, when you think you have it fixed, another error occurs!

 

The last item will never stop loading, something about factory so and so, any way, I did a control-alt-delete in order to graciously exit the stalled file, just allow it to reboot, foolow any and all instructions you see, rebotting as needed.

 

So far my restore is functioning, I cannot delete that McAfee! and will continue to work on trying to kill the tenacious monster.

 

 

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