A Unique Problem

Discussion in 'Windows OS's' started by archcommus, Jan 8, 2003.

  1. archcommus

    archcommus Big Geek

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    This isn't my problem, it's a friend's of mine. Any help would be appreciated.

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    Well, I'm a bit baffled by this one. My C:\, a 43GB drive, only has a few gigabytes free. However, this doesn't seem possible, since the combined total of everything in C:\ is only about 13 gigs. I honestly have no idea how this occurred, but it's becoming quite the issue. Any ideas?

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    This is Windows ME, 256MB of memory, using the FAT32 file system. I've already scanned for viruses and there are none.
     
  2. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    windows is reporting free space incorrectly, have you tried using scandisk/chkdisk? to see if it fixes the problem. I had a similar problem when I was using Win 98 in the past, even though I didnt notice that it was incorrect, scandisk fixed it...
     
  3. archcommus

    archcommus Big Geek

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    Yeah, he did a thorough scan disk (took about a full hour) and it found and fixed all the problems. This issue, however, still remains.
     
  4. RZA

    RZA l337 CounterStriker

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    maybe something went wrong when U formatted it(e.g shutdown!!)

    or your mainboard just doesnt suport that large drives but then it must be a verry old pc
     
  5. RZA

    RZA l337 CounterStriker

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    ow and another thing try starting in dos using a floppy and check if its still the same

    maybe its win me , me in known for its weird problems
     

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