re: Disk Space Discrepancy
Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 3:42 pm
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Posted by worm
(792 messages posted)
Good advice from Jack, but I note that the HDD is less than 6GB. It depends really
on what you use the machine for and how much RAM you have installed. If you use Windows
Movie Maker for example, you need 2GB of disk space just for that alone.
If you
only have a small amount of RAM, say 64MB, then Windows will require a larger "Swap
File" when it gets low on memory. The "Swap File" is the free space on your hard
drive where Windows places the Swap File which itself is a slower form of system
memory (RAM). You mentioned using Norton. That eats up more space. Same goes for
anything else you have installed.
I suspect what's happening here is that Windows needs the rest of the disk space
you've got left for the "Swap File" because without that space, it will crash.
On Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 11:33 am, Terry wrote:
>I've found over the past few days, that I’m getting messages telling me i'm
>out of hard disk space yet when I view the properties of the C Drive, the pie chart
>tells me I have 650MB free. The thing that’s puzzling me is that I haven't
>done anything different, nothing added etc. In the past when I’ve run short
>of space, the pie chart reduces accordingly. Now though, there seems to be this
650MB
>discrepancy that was never there previously.
>
>I've run Norton, Ad-Aware and Spybot, but nothing showing up. Just don't know where
>to start. The Disk is small at only 5.96GB to start with, so I could do with not
>"losing" this space. Should I run Hijack This or something similar?
>
>Any help would of course be much appreciated.
>
>Terry
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