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Article #7107Ever since I start using windows, strange things keep happening
From: Nan Zou
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 16:35
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 16:35
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I've had nothing but problems since I began using windows. After I install the Orchid Pro II 1024x768x256 drivers, windows tells me 386 protection error, and I have to reboot everytime. So I'll just use standard mode until I figure the problem out. Last night, before I used windows, I did a 'dir' and saw I have about 38 meg left on my hard disk. Then I went into windows and changed the setup. Upon exit I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big file on my hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing was added. So I went to Norton File Size, and it reports 48,949,248 occupied by 1768 files, drive C: has 85,106,688 capacity, and 23,947,264 was left. Now wait a minute, these num bers don't add up, if I have 46 meg used up and 83 meg total, it should leave me about 38 meg, which is what it should be. It seems that there's an invisible file that take up 16 meg. Everything else runs fine. But I can't figure out why I lost 16 meg after using windows. The machine is a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 megs of RAM, the hard disk is a 83M IDE. As a sidenote, every time I boot up I get a message "WARNIGN: share should be loaded for large media". But I've already loaded share in my autoexec. Could this be related to my disk space problem? I would greatly appreciate any help. Nan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!phobos.cis.ksu.edu!nan From: nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Nan Zou ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Ever since I start using windows, strange things keep happening Keywords: windows, Message-ID: <nan.659896529@phobos> Date: 29 Nov 90 16:35:29 GMT Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Distribution: comp Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 24