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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.
>
>
>Derek

A couple of things to try: 

1) run chkdsk /f - you might have lost clusters on your
	disk (data with no associated file in the FAT)
2) look for files with the hidden attribute set (I think
	dir /a:h will do that)
3) if you have a permanent swap file under windows,
	you might want to remove it.

My guess is the first option will work because dir is not 
reporting the missing 14MB. Also, it avoids confusion if you
use 'disk space' for 'HD memory' (most people think RAM when
you say memory). Actually, rereading your post, I'm not sure
whether *you* know the difference (HD memory is not the same
as system RAM). I *hope* thats obvious.

--
Timothy Keitt
tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu