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- From: pitonyak@eggplant.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Pitonyak)
- Subject: Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.154344.6070@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews )
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
- References: <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:43:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:
- >Help!
- >I have been having a lot of memory problems lately.
- >Having a mere 40 meg HD, I have recently done my best to
- >transfer everything I own to Floppies that does not need
- >to be on the drive, and zippng some files that I dont use daily.
- >This included taking some of my window apps and even storing them on
- >floppies. BUT:
- >
- >It didnt work! Believe it or not, It still says I have only 385K
- >of memory available, in both windows and dos.
- >it tells me 41.8M total, 385 available.
- >yet, in doing a directory by directory manual
- >addition of used memory, I only come up with 27.3M in use!!!
- >What the hell happened to my other 14 megs?
- >Any help is greatly appreciated.
-
- step number one is to do a chkdsk to check for lost clusters....
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- andy
- pitonyak@cis.ohio-state.edu
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