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- From: leonardo@curtiss.seas.ucla.edu (Leonardo E. Blanco De Freitas)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!
- Summary: chkdsk fixes the problem
- Message-ID: <8688@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:41:31 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:
- >Help!
- >I have been having a lot of memory problems lately.
- >Having a mere 40 meg HD, I have recently done my best to
- >transfer everything I own to Floppies that does not need
- >to be on the drive, and zippng some files that I dont use daily.
- >This included taking some of my window apps and even storing them on
- >floppies. BUT:
- >
- >It didnt work! Believe it or not, It still says I have only 385K
- >of memory available, in both windows and dos.
- >it tells me 41.8M total, 385 available.
- >yet, in doing a directory by directory manual
- >addition of used memory, I only come up with 27.3M in use!!!
- >What the hell happened to my other 14 megs?
- >Any help is greatly appreciated.
- >
- >
- >Derek
- >
-
- Well, looks like you've got some lost clusters. :( Fortunately,
- there is an easy way to correct this: from the DOS command
- prompt, run the command "chkdsk /f". This command will show
- you several statistics about your HD, including the number of
- lost clusters (if any). What lost clusters are is irrelevant
- (you can call me Leonardo of Borg :)); all that matters is that
- they trick DOS into thinking that you have less space available.
- chkdsk /f will prompt you for confirmation, and then fix your
- disk, freeing those clusters. In fact, if you want, chkdsk will
- create some new files with the data in those clusters, so that
- you can see what it was (later, you delete those files, of
- course, freeing the disk space you want).
- WARNING: do not run "chkdsk /f" in a DOS shell in Windows.
- This may result in data loss (I am sounding like the owner's
- manual :)). However, chkdsk is smart enough to realize that it
- is under Windows (at least, in DOS 5.0 it is).
-
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- Leonardo Blanco @SEASnet
- (leonardo@seas.ucla.edu)
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