Win 95 thinks my HD is Full, Help !!!!

[Buck]

Have a serious problem. Win 95 is reporting the free space on my HD incorrectly. If I boot straight to dos, I have 3 gig free which is correct. When I boot to Win 95, Explorer and the properties from My computer say I have 3 gig free, yet the pie chart shows only about 150K. If I try to copy something to the HD I get the warning that the disk is full. Help Pleaseeeee !!!!!!!! Have a Maxtor 6.4 GB HD.

Thanks

[Jin Vitas]

Virus?

[Nathan]

How many files do you have in the root directory of C drive?

[ENVY]

Had a friend that was missing 6gb on his drive but after defrag it came back.try it you might like it.

[kwai]

also, make sure you empty the recycling bin and windows/temp dir (though i can't imagine them taking up 3gb).

[This message has been edited by kwai (edited 04-13-99).]

[BBA]

I think your swap file is the culprit!

Go to explorer and find win386.swp and look ats its properties.

You can control it by going to system properties and selecting the virtual memory tab and specifying an exact amount of space for virtual memory, restart in msdos mode and delete the win386.swp file, then restart windows. If you set the min and max size the same, then you get the added benefit of not experiencing game or app halting while windows decides to spontaneously readjust the swap file when your in the middle of something. Just set the size to about 32M greater than your actual ram, but not less than 100M.


BBA

[ScorpioLP]

Don't mean to say the obvious, but have you run defrag and scandisk yet ???

[ridefree]

Do check Nathan's suggestion. If you constantly download files and don't use folders and subfolders, you can easily exceed the maximum number of files and your drive will show full. So check that root C: directory. I think that the long file name/8.3 file logging affects this also.
Not that you should turn them off, but they do take up some extra space.

Another thing you might have run into if you surf a great deal is a problem I just happened to stumble on with Cleansweep.
I was cleaning out garbage and lo and behold,
I found some 90mb of temporary internet files. I had just finished using the delete
function within IE4 to clean out the temp folder and had also gone into Windows Explorer to verify they were all gone. They were. But there they were in the Cleansweep window. So I tried looking at the directory in a Dos window. Not there either. So I went ahead and cleaned them out with Cleansweep and regained the 90megs.
BTW...Sandisk did not find them either.

[Buck]

Well I did the defrag, and scandisk using Norton. I also deleted some files that I had on there to create a CD. The results. I now have about 1.7 gig on the disk and 4.4 free when using explorer, but now the pie chart shows the entire drive as being free. I remembered about the swap file and set it to a min of 200MB and max of 1GB, before I read BBA's suggestion. Think I will try that later today. Also will give ridefree's suggestion a shot. Any other ideas. Just for your info. I'm running a home built system Shuttle HOT-569 motherboard with AMD K6-2 300Mhz CPU, 64 meg, Graphics Blaster Extreme 8 meg video card, internal Zip, Hi-Val 24X CDROM, and a JVC XR-W2080 2x24x2 writer. OS is Win 95 OSR 2.1 with USB support. Thanks for all the help. will keep you updated.

[spdsk8r]

Could you have a virus that affects the FAT's??? That would make your computer read it differently.