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Re: Where'd all that hard disk space go?

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From: Jim Fitzpatrick
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00
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J A F Bradbury <Julian@xabcs.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Was Win3.11 installed on the 850, and then Win95 installed on the 1GB.
>In which case that's where the h/d space has gone.

yes - but why? surely win95 is no worse than win3.11 in terms of disk
management? (I know there's more of it, but not 250Mb more!)

>The other one is, is there an old swp file lying somewhere unused?
>Also Win95 dynamically allocates swap-space, ie, increases it for fun.

There isn't an old swapfile - it's a new disk. And the win95 swapfile
is only a few tems of Mb.


Jim Fitzpatrick
jim@jfitz.demon.co.uk
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