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In article <93495@aerospace.AERO.ORG> sills@aerospace.aero.org (Andy Sills) writes:
>>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. But I can't figure out why I lost 16 meg after using windows.
>>
>>						Nan
>
>	See if you added a permanent swap file during your
>	installation of Windows. The file is called 386SPART.PAR
>	and is usually a user choice, especially size. This file
>	is hidden, and furthermore needs to be excluded when you
>	back up your disk, since it changes often, but is just a
>	scratch area.

If you don't have a permanent swapfile then search for files with the .swp
extension.  Windows creates a temporary swapfile with a .swp extension in
the absence of a permanent swapfile and deletes it when Windows exits.  If
for some reason you had to reboot while Windows was running then the  
temporary swapfile will still be on the disk.  It should be in the main
windows directory or the system directory.  

*** Make sure you check for and delete this file OUTSIDE OF WINDOWS.
    Needless to say Windows would be very upset if you deleted its virtual
    swap space while it was using it.  ***

Also do a chkdsk /f to see if you have any lost clusters.  If the machine
crashes/turned off/etc during disk I/O lost clusters can be created.

Hope one of these solves your problem.

Ken Sykes
Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.