Mom has a '99 (?) IBM Thinkpad - win98. 2Gb (?) She pays for Juno.
The available space on C: is under 100mb.
Temporary Internet files have been deleted.
Juno ads have been deleted.
She doesn’t save email, received or sent.
All of her files together aren’t more than 5 mb.
Looking in WinExplorer with the detail view (showing hidden files, too)
I don’t see where all the disk space has gone.
Any ideas on what’s eating all the space?
go to the hard drive directory, right click-properties each folder, go to the one that has the most space, and shouldnt have very much space at all, then go to that folder, find the folder that has the most space that shouldn’t have barely any, keep going from there until you find something you don’t need, then delete it. that’s what I’ve done
You could also do a disk cleanup.
You could just do a clean install of windows. Just backup all your needed info then reinstall.
Thanks for responding, NF.
We’ve done your first suggestion. Nothing is showing up as being very big… at least what has been found doesn’t add up to enough to account for the lack of space.
Someone told her that she has “a second hard drive” (I’ve never seen any sign of it)… You have to realize this is all third hand… coming through Mom who says this guy came and installed some “rams”. Would a partition prevent part of the hard drive from being recognized as available space?
Definitely planning to have a clean install in the future. Mostly curious as to what is going on.
You could open device manager and click one disk drives, or hard drives.
I’m not familiar with laptops by any means but I do know that it is highly unlikely that 2 hard drives will fit in one.
A partition could prevent it from showing up as free space, but I think that the seperate partiton would show up as another drive. I’m not sure. Not too familiar with win’98
Could be that when it was partitioned not all of the drive space was formatted, so you may have unpartitioned space on your HD.
Thanks for the ideas. They make sense.
Do, most likely if it is 3rd hand by the sounds of it the jumpers on the hard drive may have been set incorrectly, acheiving your 2GB hard drive, i highly suspect that you have a larger hard drive, i’ve had this problem before with a Gateway 450mhz 17GB hard drive, it showed up as 2GB.
Try This:
Create a Windows 98 Boot Disk on a floppy, leave the floppy in the laptop, reboot, the computer should read the floppy and boot from it, get to a command line in MSDOS (before u get into windows, Via the bootable floppy (ie follow instructions)) make sure you boot with CDROM support, then insert your Windows 98 CD, and type this:
cd X:\Win98 (X is where you should put your cdrom drives letter)
Now you should now be in: X:\Win98 Directory, now type this:
FDISK
and hit enter, now on your first screen you see, press Y and hit enter (for yes)
Now press 4 and hit enter this will display the “Partitions” on any hard drives in your computer, if you see more than one partition (ignoring any partition that is 8mb large ie: 8096Kbytes) then you have a second partition that can be enabled..
all you have to do is to make this partition active, so select the second partition and make it active, in the screen your in, now press your Escape key till u r back to the main menu, with the options 1 - 4 now press 1 hit enter, and “create logical parition” a logical partition basically means that you can are creating another hard drive but from the same physicaly hard drive ie: logically the computer thinks it is seperate.. :good:
Once it is finished, exit FDISK and reboot your pc, making sure that your floppy disk is still in, now do the same as i suggested before and goto a command line with CDROM support now do when at the A Prompt ie:
A:
type this:
cd X:\Win98
hit enter, now type: "Format D:" (without quotation marks)
type “Y”, hit enter, this will start formatting your drive, once it is finished, give your new hard drive a name and hit enter, now reboot making sure the floppy disk is NOT in the floppy disk drive, and boot into windows.
Voila you should now have a second hard drive :good:
Hope this helps, if not, i still think its a bad partition, so you would have to look at changing the jumpers on the hard drive itself.