Same here. But, I guess it may work from a DOS boot. Some of the
commands behave differently in True DOS.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"glee" wrote in message
...
| "Hugh Candlin" wrote in message
| ...
| Hugh wrote:
| Run CHKDSK from a DOS prompt.
|
| Glen wrote:
| That only gives total and available disk space, in bytes. It does
not
| give a file
| count of any kind.
|
| Hugh wrote:
| Due respect, my friend, but I DID confirm it first,
| just to make sure that my memory did not fail me.
|
| 1,702,395,904 bytes total disk space
| 38,731,776 bytes in 198 hidden files
| 13,238,272 bytes in 399 directories
| 616,497,152 bytes in 6,017 user files
| 1,033,928,704 bytes available on disk
|
| How are you running CHKDSK, Hugh? From a DOS window, or from a DOS
boot? I do not
| get any files or folders listed here, on Win98SE.
|
| paste
| C:\WINDOWSchkdsk c:
|
| CHKDSK has NOT checked this drive for errors.
| You must use SCANDISK to detect and fix errors on this drive.
|
| Volume WIN98 created 07-27-1998 10:45p
| Volume Serial Number is 3E91-C505
|
| 2,093,338,624 bytes total disk space
| 986,058,752 bytes available on disk
|
| 4,096 bytes in each allocation unit
| 511,069 total allocation units on disk
| 240,737 available allocation units on disk
|
| 655,360 total bytes memory
| 623,248 bytes free
|
| Instead of using CHKDSK, try using SCANDISK. SCANDISK can reliably
detect
| and fix a much wider range of disk problems.
| /paste
| --
| Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
| http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|