No offence mate, but everytime i read the text you've written i can't stop laughing especially the last line cracks me up:lmao:
And i get this mental image of a big guy hitting his computer with a big hammer.
But to the matter at hand; You can save your file to another disk, maya will still start from the c disk, also i think defragmenting your hard drive will help or removing/backup other files
Hope this helps