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Hard drive size reported wrongly.
Last night I used Steganos 4.15 to clean up my cache (temp internet
files, etc). Today I discover that my hard drive seems to have shrank by about 3GB. Checking through the files, it is clear that there are no new files but Windows Explorer and DOS are saying there is less space than in reality. They are saying 400MB when there should be about 3.6GB. When I go to properties in Windows explorer the c:/windows dir gives the inaccurate figure. On scandisk in DOS when looking at the drive it will jump from 18% scanned to 72% scanned (so clearly ignoring the files which do not exist). I have tried uninstalling Steganos, using scandisk (dos and windows), etc, but cannot get the right free space size back. On one occasion scandisk in DOS said that the file space was being recorded incorrectly and it would fix it, but nothing changed, even though scandisk said it had fixed the problem. Running in safe mode also does not help. This is nothing to do with the windows swap files, temp files, etc. Any ideas? I am running a Compaq Presario with Windows ME. Compaq diagnostics reports the wrong hard drive size too. Thanks! |
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Hard drive size reported wrongly.
"Qintin" wrote in message ... Last night I used Steganos 4.15 to clean up my cache (temp internet files, Adventurous! What's wrong with deleting them thru the Internet Options Icon on the ontrol Panel? etc). Today I discover that my hard drive seems to have shrank by about 3GB. Checking through the files, it is clear that there are no new files but Windows Explorer and DOS are saying there is less space than in reality. They are saying 400MB when there should be about 3.6GB. When I go to properties in Windows explorer the c:/windows dir gives the inaccurate figure. On scandisk in DOS when looking at the drive it will jump from 18% scanned to 72% scanned (so clearly ignoring the files which do not exist). I have tried uninstalling Steganos, using scandisk (dos and windows), etc, but cannot get the right free space size back. On one occasion scandisk in DOS said that the file space was being recorded incorrectly and it would fix it, but nothing changed, even though scandisk said it had fixed the problem. Running in safe mode also does not help. This is nothing to do with the windows swap files, temp files, etc. Any ideas? I am running a Compaq Presario with Windows ME. Compaq diagnostics reports the wrong hard drive size too. Ever do a Google search for steganos ? Thanks! |
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Hard drive size reported wrongly.
My suspicions here are that Steganos didn't restrict its attentions to the
TIF - and started removing files from places it didn't ortta! With at in mind, there's a possibility that System Restore is out of whack - Try creating a manual Restore point - what happens? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Qintin" wrote in message ... Last night I used Steganos 4.15 to clean up my cache (temp internet files, etc). Today I discover that my hard drive seems to have shrank by about 3GB. Checking through the files, it is clear that there are no new files but Windows Explorer and DOS are saying there is less space than in reality. They are saying 400MB when there should be about 3.6GB. When I go to properties in Windows explorer the c:/windows dir gives the inaccurate figure. On scandisk in DOS when looking at the drive it will jump from 18% scanned to 72% scanned (so clearly ignoring the files which do not exist). I have tried uninstalling Steganos, using scandisk (dos and windows), etc, but cannot get the right free space size back. On one occasion scandisk in DOS said that the file space was being recorded incorrectly and it would fix it, but nothing changed, even though scandisk said it had fixed the problem. Running in safe mode also does not help. This is nothing to do with the windows swap files, temp files, etc. Any ideas? I am running a Compaq Presario with Windows ME. Compaq diagnostics reports the wrong hard drive size too. Thanks! |
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