Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!

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From: Andrew Pitonyak
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:43

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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....

andy
pitonyak@cis.ohio-state.edu

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