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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144044.20456@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:40:44 GMT
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- In <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:
-
- I'm not sure what you think the connection is between your hard drive
- and your memory. Are you using Windows VM (permanent swap file)?
-
- >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.
-
- Fragmented to the point where Windows can't put a swap file on it?
- I'm not sure what you think your problem really is, but you shouldn't
- really expect to automagically see your hard drive reported as MEMORY.
- The memory is on some of the little black rectangular things inside
- the big box. ;-)
-
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