"Not enough disk space on target drive" Error

[stethun]

I'm am unable to install Premiere 6.5. The instalation starts of fine, but gets to 18 or 20% and then throws up the error message "Not enough disk space on target drive while attempting to copy files. To continue, first free disk space on the target drive and then click OK.".
This is not so; I currently have 2.4Gb free. I've also tried installing onto other drives (with up to 5Gb free) and in safe mode. When attempting to install I switch off all programmes, including antivirus and firewall. Nothing helps. At the point of the error message neither clicking 'OK' or 'cancel' works. I have to force-quit the installation with Task Manager.

Can anyone shed any light, please?

 

[Jocsta]

Run a scandisk first. Windows does not always reliably quote the ammount of free space on a disk - I have had a case b4 where it tells me I have 10gb left, after a scandisk it's 200mb!?.
Also Premiere may install some files into the windows/system32 directory, so the problem may be not enough space in your windows directoy - this sounds more likely as you have tried installing on a different disk...

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[stethun]

Thanks for the suggestion but the problem goes deeper than that. I understand disk space and have plenty. In fact further research has shown me that this is a known issue with three other Adobe products and detailed solutions are given for solving it. Sadly, though, there is nothing for Premiere 6.5 (v6 still installs perfectly). Maybe the product is still too new.
Any further ideas?
Thanks,
Steve

 

[Snickle]

One thing I've run into is that Windows may be reporting a certain amount of hard drive space free but it is not all in one 'chunk', or contiguous space. Some programs check that in determining if sufficient space exists. Ran defrag and cured the problem.