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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Small success, need more help please (was Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.235107.2847@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Nov17.171352.15607@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:51:07 GMT
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- In <1992Nov17.171352.15607@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:
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- >Summary:
- >Expires:
- >References: <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu> <BxuF67.B3A@unix.portal.com>
- >Sender:
- >Followup-To:
- >Distribution:
- >Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- >Keywords:
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- >Well,
- >I went through my dir's with dir /a:h
- >and got rid of about 3 megs of files I previously deleted
- >Anyone know why it did this?
- >I also found the following files in the c:\ dir:
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- >IO.SYS 34,560 Bytes
- >MSDOS.SYS 37,394 Bytes
- >386SPART.PAR 8,357,888 Bytes
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- >In c:\windows I find a hidden directory
- >with a file in it that I deleted a long time ago.
- >But, it is not letting me delete it. Any idea why? The others deleted fine.
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- >After deleting the hidden files chkdsk gives my 307 bad allocation
- >units with 630K of space in them.
- >Ill fix this with chkdsk /f
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- >My biggest question is about 386SPART.PAR what is this?
- >Is this my swap file? I dont think it is, but I dont know much about
- >swap files. All I know is that they should be typically about 2 or so meg
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- >right?
-
- >whatever 386SPART.PAR is, It seems awfully big. Please help a newbie
- >to configurations :)
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- This is a permanent swap file from Windows.
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