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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Smartdrive/Windows/Disk Space
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172902.10058@rei.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:29:02 GMT
- References: <C1GC63.85w@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
- Lines: 47
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- jnomina@andy.bgsu.edu (A.P.K.) writes:
-
- >(or rather ... LARGE) problem with my HDD. I'm new to the DOS
- >world (being a hard-core Apple ][er), and have no idea what's
- >going on with this machine, but... I'm running Windows 3.1 and
- >DOS 5.0, and bouncing back and forth between the two, and having
- >a few system crashes. It seems that my 130Meg HDD is filling
- >up in and of itself, with no help from me. Is this a known
- >problem? Am I doing something tragically wrong?
-
- Possibly. There are three rules you should follow when shutting down
- the computer:
-
- 1. Always exit all applications, exit Windows, exit everything, and get
- back to a DOS prompt if you are about to shut down the machine.
-
- 2. If you run SmartDrive disk cache, further wait about 5 seconds
- before you turn off the machine, to allow the write buffers to be
- flushed to disk.
-
- 3. If the unthinkable happens and your machine crashes and you must
- reboot without being able to get to a DOS prompt, then:
-
- When the machine comes back up, type CHKDSK/F to check the hard disk
- for errors. You will often find some "lost clusters" which come about
- when files are open and not closed. These cause no damage, but they DO
- take disk space away. Over time they can build up. When asked whether
- to save the clusters as files, you should usually answer "No", which
- tells DOS to simply forget about the lost clusters. If the number of
- lost clusters is small, you might consider answering "Yes", but then you
- will have to look through the FILExxxx.CHK files which are created as a
- result, and either rename or delete the resulting file fragments
- yourself.
-
- If you just turn the machine off while it is running Windows or other
- things, you will likely kill your machine eventually. Always go back to
- DOS and let the computer update itself before your stop it.
-
- If you've been doing these things already and you still have trouble...
- well, it must be something else. But this is a common thing for new DOS
- users to do.
-
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