I'm helping a friend tune up an old packard bell with 1.3gig/drive, win95. There are only 80MB's left and i cant find any programs, the biggist is printshop, about 50MB. temp internet, temp,cookies, all clean....next time i visit i'll look for multimedia files.....but there won't be any... The desktop has like 8 icons, in add/remove it's little tiny 2MB programs....WHERE did her hard drive go?????? I ran defrag and it's 10% fragmented, but when i run defrag it quits with this message?>>>>error, defrag can't run until other problems are fixed, that leads to scan disk, which i ran,,,,,,it only had 32,000 files to scan.......like i said where is the hard drive?? anyway,it reported 230,000 bad bytes of info, lots of this junk i was able to delete as it scanned........ defrag still quits.... can i overide something here....... your thoughts, you guys are awsome, i have fixed evey problem i eve had with your help.......

Have you tried running a thorough/complete scan with scan disk. The disk is not compressed ? is it? just some ideas.

For starters get a copy of the Win Me defrag @ www.surecool.com (for the kibitzers out there, should I send him to MS?) This utility is super fast & compatible w/W95. BTW, which version is it?

Try to defrag in Safe mode. Or press ctrl-alt-delete and end task everything except Explorer and Systray. Then try scandisk and defrag.

Another thought,is the show all files option checked & the hide file extensions unchecked? Open an explorer window-clk view tab-clk folder options-clk view tab. After that use the advanced file find tab & look for files who size is at least 3000kb. Also look at the content.IE5 folder which has hidden files, it can grow to several hundred Mb's.

Try using norton utilities and run win doctor from cd see if it finds any errors .then have norton fix them might help

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