no more internal file ideentifiers available

[mmaleh]

Hey all,
I get this error on one of my network drives every now and then. It seems to disconnect this one drive from my machine. and the error is
g:/ is not accessible
no more internal file ideentifiers available

anyone know what this means/what I can do to fix it.

 

[linney]

You could try running ChkDsk /r on that drive.

Another thing you might look at is a faulty piece of software that is excessively writing to the drive, perhaps writing thousands of files of a small size and using up all the "internal file identifiers" whatever they are?

 

[stduc]

Check the disk isn't full. Use chkdsk to see how many allocation units are available. If not many, consider deleting small files.
Check the windows indexing service isn't running on that drive.

 

[mmaleh]

the g drive is a mapped network drive. can I do a chkdsk on a mapped drive?
thanks!
-m

 

[stduc]

Only on the machine it is in - not from a remote PC!

 

[bcastner]

Some Antivirus programs that scan all file opens have been blamed for this. Other programs can be at fault as well:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q172222/