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Article #649Re: Small success, need more help please (was Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!)
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:51
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: >Summary: >Expires: >References: <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu> <BxuF67.B3A@unix.portal.com> >Sender: >Followup-To: >Distribution: >Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology >Keywords: >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. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.msdos Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall 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!!!!!) Message-ID: <1992Nov17.235107.2847@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc References: <1992Nov17.171352.15607@athena.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:51:07 GMT Lines: 46