I have a Pentium II 233 machine with an Abit LX-6 motherboard and 256 MB of RAM. I have a Maxtor 8.4 Gb hard drive installed. I had a problem with Windows 95 and upgraded to Windows Me. I am getting a message my hard drive space is dangerously low. When I check the C: drive capacity through the My Computer icon. No other drive is shown (including a 1.2 GB Western digital drive that is in the system). Windows Me is showing the drive to be only 4 GB. However when the machine boots up, the bios shows the Maxtor drive to correctly be 8.4 GB. What could be the problem? Thank you for your help in advance. Dave Travale

My computer used to do the same thing. In order for me to fix it I had to run Scandisk outside of Windows. You do this by creating a boot disk. To create a boot disk go to start/settings/control panel. Click on the Add/remove programs icon and click on the starup disk tab follow the insructions given. Once the disk is created leave it in the drive and restart Windows. When it begins to start a list will show up. click on help. After it has loaded hit Alt then f then x to close it. After that A: will show up. At A: type scandisk/all (or scandisk\all don't remember which one try one and if it doesn't work try the other) and hit enter. let it scan your disk and a screen should come up saying that the amount of space on drive C: (or what ever letter drive you have it set up to be) is being misreported. Move the arrow keys untill it highlights fix it and hit enter. After you have finished it will ask you do you want to do a surface scan. You can hit yes if you want to or no if you do not want to it is up to you. when you are finished it will go back to a screen that says A: When the light on you floppy is no longer lit up take it out of the drive and hit Ctrl+ALT+Delete. This should fix your problem.

Your problem is using a upgrade from Microsoft. I've never seen an upgrade from Microsoft that didn't have any problems . My advice, use complete versions