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Hard disk reporting wrong free space
Name: Chewy Date: October 13, 2000 at 05:20:50 Pacific
Comment:
I have a 4G HD and the info for it's telling me I've only about 400M free. I've trawled through all folders on the HD and desktop and I can only come to about 1G used. I ran a Norton Disk Doctor where it said everythings ok, and a defrag where it told me not enough free space to defrag fully. I turned off virtual memory and extentions but still pretty much the same. Where has all this HD space gone?
Name: BUD Date: October 13, 2000 at 09:35:44 Pacific
Reply:
Did you check to see how the drive was partition? What OS are you running?
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Response Number 2
Name: cris Date: November 27, 2000 at 09:31:05 Pacific
Reply:
if you are using OS9 must search with sherlock for any tmp files, especelly photoshop tmp files in OS9 PS does not delete the tmp files
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Response Number 3
Name: Adam Lewis Date: December 10, 2000 at 14:36:44 Pacific
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I to am having this problem, I have 9GB of free space left (out of 20) and its telling me I've got around 15mb. I have recently defragmented my HD. I am running win98 ver2 on a PIII 600. Any help please!! Thanks in advance
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Response Number 4
Name: Adam Lewis Date: December 10, 2000 at 14:58:41 Pacific
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Just as I needed help I think I've solved it. I'm not sure which of the two thing that I did solved it but its worked. I was having the same problem as chewy. All I have done is deleted winboot.ini from my root directory (ot sure why it was there) and also deleted other useless files from there (the root directory apparently has limited size unlike other folders). Hope this helps everyone, Adam
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