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as the title states....
I have windows loaded onto an SSD with only ~30 GB of space.... as such windows takes up pretty much all of it leaving 0 space for installing games or anything else..... (I cannot free up 1.4 gigabytes of space for those wondering)
I do not have ffxiv installed onto my C: drive and prior to 2.1 I did not get this message.....
what gives??
It may be easier to free space than you think. Windows likes to keep a lot of junk around in case you need it later, and you may never need it. Default log file sizes can be a bit too large, browsers may cache more than you actually need, System Restore may reserve more space than necessary for how you use your system, and Windows Update may have a lot of older versions of files stored that you no longer need to retain because they've been superseded for a long time. A lot of this can be cleaned up with the built in Disk Cleanup wizard (Administrative Tools) if you click to cleanup system files, and/or running something like CCleaner. Just make sure to double check all the items checked off in the Windows and Applications lists to make sure you aren't getting too aggressive with the cleanup.
System Restore may be set bigger than you need--open the System Restore snap-in (Control Panel/Recovery) to see just how many restore points you have. If it's overkill, you can go into the Config System Restore page and adjust how much space is reserved.
If you've been running your system for a long time after the last Service Pack was installed (or have a couple months worth of Windows Update cycles under your belt), you may have some really old backups of files stashed in the WinSXS folder. Don't delete them manually--it's all closely linked and you can knacker up the recovery model if you do. There are tools you can run that will either remove the files and the links in the database, or at least compress the files to save space. They all ultimately integrate with the DISM command line utility. DISM can also be used to actually unload the files left behind when you disable windows features (if you want to enable them later, it will download the files again). It's all laid out nicely in an article over at how-to geek:
http://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how-...indows-7-or-8/
If you really look under your hood with what they take you through in that article, you may find you have a lot of crud in there that you really don't need and can free up a gig or two alone just trimming some of the Windows bloat and then making Windows cleanup after itself.
There's also the old swapfile reduction as well. Old practices were to make really big swap files (like 1.5 or 2x your physical RAM). If you have an 64 bit OS and have opted for lots of RAM, you may find you don't need one of these monstrous swap files. You can reduce it's size from the System Properties page by clicking on Advanced System Settings, going to the Advanced Tab and clicking on Settings in the Performance section, and going to the Advanced tab there and clicking to Change the Virtual Memory settings.