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Re: Small success, need more help please (was Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!)

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From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:51
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In <1992Nov17.171352.15607@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:

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>Well, 
>I went through my dir's with dir /a:h
>and got rid of about 3 megs of files I previously deleted
>Anyone know why it did this?
>I also found the following files in the c:\ dir:


>IO.SYS              34,560 Bytes
>MSDOS.SYS           37,394 Bytes
>386SPART.PAR     8,357,888 Bytes

>In c:\windows I find a hidden directory
>with a file in it that I deleted a long time ago.
>But, it is not letting me delete it.  Any idea why?  The others deleted fine.

>After deleting the hidden files chkdsk gives my 307 bad allocation 
>units with 630K of space in them.
>Ill fix this with chkdsk /f

>My biggest question is about 386SPART.PAR  what is this?
>Is this my swap file?  I dont think it is, but I dont know much about
>swap files.  All I know is that they should be typically about 2 or so meg

>right?

>whatever 386SPART.PAR is, It seems awfully big.  Please help a newbie
>to configurations  :)

This is a permanent swap file from Windows.

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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Small success, need more help please (was Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!)
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