How to Disable the Low Disk Space Warning in a Vista Restore Partition
A low disk space warning is generated by Windows Vista when it detects the hard disk drive is mostly full. This feature is designed to warn you when you are running out of space but can become a nuisance when dealing with factory restore partitions. These partitions are sometimes not equipped with enough free space to avoid tripping the "Low Disk Space" flag in Windows, causing the operating system to continually advise you to clean up space on a full partition that should not be modified.
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Instructions
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Open the Start menu on your taskbar and type "regedit.exe."
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Right-click "regedit.exe" and click "Run as administrator."
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Enter your administrative user name and password if prompted by the User Account Control service.
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Expand the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" key by clicking the triangle to the left of its label on the left pane of the registry editor window.
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Expand "Software" then expand "Microsoft" then "Windows" then "CurrentVersion" then "Policies."
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Right-click "Policies" and click "New..." then "DWORD (32-bit) Value."
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Type "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" without quotation marks when prompted to enter a title. Click "OK" to create the DWORD value.
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Double-click "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" in the right pane of the window, then type "1" without quotation marks for its value. Click "OK." Windows will now stop displaying the low disk warnings.
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Tips & Warnings
Microsoft has not included a feature to disable this check per disk, so you must disable it for all disks or none.
