re: Inaccurate record of free drivespace after deletion
Sunday, June 22, 2003 at 1:59 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mat McVeagh
(8 messages posted)
Thanks very much WhitPhil, I've just tried what you say and I'm delighted to say
the free space has just jumped to 1.73 gigs. I'm not entirely sure that's the full
amount of space I've cleared but maybe it is, and it's a start anyway. There were
a couple of files in Windows/TEMP that had apparently been misrecorded. Also some
lost clusters that got renamed.
I'll also need a new BIOS battery ASAP, I could do with a defragment also and I decided
a long time that my next OS install would be Linux, LOL :) Thanks very much WhitPhil
and Paul for all your help, I'll only come back if there's another problem, I guess!
Mat
On Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 12:52 pm, WhitPhil wrote:
>If you have a failing bios battery, this "could" lead to strange things happening.
>
>Have you tried restarting to DOS and running scandisk?
>See if it detects any free space issues?
>
>BTW: (and for Paul) on a 20GB drive the cluster size is 16KB. It is 4KB on drives
>under 8GB. But it appears you are taking the INUSE not the size, so the size of
the
>cluster shouldn't matter.
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