Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/28/16:01:05
On 1997-01-28 seyed AT cse DOT unsw DOT EDU DOT AU said:
>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.
>hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release,comp.os.ms-windows
>X-Sender: seyed AT eiger DOT pv DOT unsw DOT EDU DOT AU
>Hi there,
>I have dos6.2, win3.1, win95 installed on my Pentium 90 computer. I
>have 1.2G HD. Recently I realised that about 400MB of my HD is
>missing. When I use 'chkdsk /f' comand in dos it says 1G is used
>and 200MB is free but when I use 'dir /s /a' it says 600MB is used
>and 200MB is free.
>I also tried win95. When I use 'disk properties' it says 1G is used
>and 200 is free but when I select all the files and directories by
>Explorer and click the properties by clicking the right mouse
>botton while pointing to the selection, it says 600MB is the space
>occupied by all the files.
>Any one knows how I can find out what is happenning and where is
>that 400MB of my HD and how I can find it and recover it other than
>reformating my HD please send me an email.
>I have the whole 1.2GB in one big partition.
>Thanks,
>Seyed
Any chance you have a 400 meg swapfile in that mess? :-) Seriously, though,
check to see if you have doublespace (or drivespace) drives. Betcha that's
what the problem is.
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