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- Subject: Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!
- Message-ID: <Michel.Davidoff.154.0@sonoma.edu>
- From: Michel.Davidoff@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
- Date: 16 Nov 92 07:53:28 PST
- References: <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: Sonoma state university
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- In article <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:
- >Subject: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!
- >From: cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo)
- >Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:44:39 GMT
- >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.
- >
- >
- >Derek
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >"There Are Two Great Tragedies In Life,
- > One Is Not To Get Your Heart's Desire.
- > The Other Is To Get It.
- > -Bernard Shaw
- It looks like things are not clear.
- 40 MB is the Hard Disk space - This has nothing to do with memory. No
- relationship...
- When you add up the total entries in the directories I'm not sure that you
- see the hidden files. If you have a swap file in windows this might be the
- answer.
- Thank You
- Michel Davidoff
- E-Mail Michel.Davidoff@Sonoma.edu
-