Error Message: Disk is Full

Just started using iTunes 9 on Windows Vista and i've started getting error messages when either uploading songs or requesting album art:
"The iTunes library file cannot be saved. The disk you are attempting to use is full"
The problem being is that the disk I am using is not full, nowhere near so. Any help appreciated!

Where does iTunes think your saving the data to ?
We need some basic info about your computer.
In other words, specs!
At a guess, you've got a partitioned hard drive but that's only a guess since you haven't told us what we're dealing with.

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