nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Nan Zou ) (11/30/90)
I've had nothing but problems since I began using windows. After I install the Orchid Pro II 1024x768x256 drivers, windows tells me 386 protection error, and I have to reboot everytime. So I'll just use standard mode until I figure the problem out. Last night, before I used windows, I did a 'dir' and saw I have about 38 meg left on my hard disk. Then I went into windows and changed the setup. Upon exit I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big file on my hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing was added. So I went to Norton File Size, and it reports 48,949,248 occupied by 1768 files, drive C: has 85,106,688 capacity, and 23,947,264 was left. Now wait a minute, these num bers don't add up, if I have 46 meg used up and 83 meg total, it should leave me about 38 meg, which is what it should be. It seems that there's an invisible file that take up 16 meg. Everything else runs fine. But I can't figure out why I lost 16 meg after using windows. The machine is a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 megs of RAM, the hard disk is a 83M IDE. As a sidenote, every time I boot up I get a message "WARNIGN: share should be loaded for large media". But I've already loaded share in my autoexec. Could this be related to my disk space problem? I would greatly appreciate any help. Nan
c60c-3fz@e260-2c.berkeley.edu (In Sik Rhee) (11/30/90)
In article <nan.659896529@phobos> nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Nan Zou ) writes: >I've had nothing but problems since I began using windows. After I install the >Orchid Pro II 1024x768x256 drivers, windows tells me 386 protection error, and >I have to reboot everytime. So I'll just use standard mode until I figure the >problem out. I know that Orchid has upgraded their windows 3.0 driver since I bought my Pro II... call their BBS and download the latest driver (if you dont have the #, call the # on the back of the manual and ask for it)... also, you might try posting about the problem on their bbs... >Last night, before I used windows, I did a 'dir' and saw I have about 38 meg >left on my hard disk. Then I went into windows and changed the setup. Upon exit >I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big file on my >hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing was added. So I went >to Norton File Size, and it reports 48,949,248 occupied by 1768 files, drive C: >has 85,106,688 capacity, and 23,947,264 was left. Now wait a minute, these num >bers don't add up, if I have 46 meg used up and 83 meg total, it should leave >me about 38 meg, which is what it should be. It seems that there's an invisible >file that take up 16 meg. Everything else runs fine. But I can't figure out why >I lost 16 meg after using windows. > >The machine is a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 megs of RAM, the hard disk is a 83M IDE. You might be having this problem if you exit windows abnormally (resetting the machine during a windows session, etc...) it may be that the temporary swap file isn't getting erased (it's a hidden file, so it wouldnt be reported by a dir)... if you cant find it, do a chkdsk /f to see if you've lost any clusters, and just restore and delete the files... if the problem is happening even if you exit normally, I dont know, but you should set up a permanent swap file for better performance anyway... > >As a sidenote, every time I boot up I get a message "WARNIGN: share should be >loaded for large media". But I've already loaded share in my autoexec. Could >this be related to my disk space problem? I would greatly appreciate any help. > > Nan ignore the share message, it's Dos 4.01's conservative message that automatically pops up when you have a larger capacity HD.. if you are't actually running a network, you shouldn't worry about it... hope this helped...
sills@aerospace.aero.org (Andy Sills) (12/05/90)
>I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big >file on my hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing > was added. But I can't figure out why I lost 16 meg after using windows. > > Nan See if you added a permanent swap file during your installation of Windows. The file is called 386SPART.PAR and is usually a user choice, especially size. This file is hidden, and furthermore needs to be excluded when you back up your disk, since it changes often, but is just a scratch area.
silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) (12/10/90)
In article <93495@aerospace.AERO.ORG> sills@aerospace.aero.org (Andy Sills) writes:
$>I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big
$>file on my hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing
$> was added. But I can't figure out why I lost 16 meg after using windows.
$ See if you added a permanent swap file during your
$ installation of Windows. The file is called 386SPART.PAR
Another possibility is that you may simply have lost some (OK, lots of)
clusters. While the swap file is the more likely explanation, you might
also want to try CHKDSK/F to recover any lost clusters you may have.
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In article <93495@aerospace.AERO.ORG> sills@aerospace.aero.org (Andy Sills) writes: >>I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big >>file on my hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing >> was added. But I can't figure out why I lost 16 meg after using windows. >> >> Nan > > See if you added a permanent swap file during your > installation of Windows. The file is called 386SPART.PAR > and is usually a user choice, especially size. This file > is hidden, and furthermore needs to be excluded when you > back up your disk, since it changes often, but is just a > scratch area. If you don't have a permanent swapfile then search for files with the .swp extension. Windows creates a temporary swapfile with a .swp extension in the absence of a permanent swapfile and deletes it when Windows exits. If for some reason you had to reboot while Windows was running then the temporary swapfile will still be on the disk. It should be in the main windows directory or the system directory. *** Make sure you check for and delete this file OUTSIDE OF WINDOWS. Needless to say Windows would be very upset if you deleted its virtual swap space while it was using it. *** Also do a chkdsk /f to see if you have any lost clusters. If the machine crashes/turned off/etc during disk I/O lost clusters can be created. Hope one of these solves your problem. Ken Sykes Disclaimer: The above opinions are solely my own.