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Article #638Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!
From: Michel Davidoff
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:53
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:53
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!usc!nic.csu.net!ethernet.sonoma.edu!Michel.Davidoff Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith,comp.os.ms-windows.misc 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 Nntp-Posting-Host: ethernet.sonoma.edu Lines: 41