am unable to restore database in SqlServer 2005 database.....it shows error while restoring.

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Dear Frnds,

am working on SqlServer 2005 database. last few days back i have took backup of my SqlServer database. and i Formatted my System.

Now i want to restore this database which i have took backup.

When i am restoring this database it shows an error.

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Restore failed for Server 'Ranjith-PC'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

Additional information :

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: There is insuffieient free space on disk volume 'C:\' to create the database.
The database requires 42485350400 additional free bytes, while only 8938475520 bytes are available.(Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
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Please help me, how to solve.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 22-Mar-13 3:06am

Software Engineer 892

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2013-03-22T03:08:00

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The error is pretty self explanatory : you need more space on your c: drive.

Posted 22-Mar-13 3:08am

Mehdi Gholam

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Software Engineer 892 22-Mar-13 9:11am

already i have 10gb free space

Mehdi Gholam 22-Mar-13 9:18am

Make more space available then try again.

Software Engineer 892 22-Mar-13 9:22am

actually this database is of 6,226 kb only.......then what will be the problem. i have still 10gb free space in C drive.

Please help me.

Thanks...

Mehdi Gholam 22-Mar-13 9:30am

The log files might not be truncated and compacted before backup, so SQL server needs more space to restore.