My drive is 80gb. I've used 30gb. Windows tells me I have 700mb free

Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and
folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it
comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times.

And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and
have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer
any data to this drive--I get that window stating that
it's full. I've been getting that message for weeks now.

Furthermore, I tranfered about 14gb OUT of this drive
today, and the free space didn't change!

And yes, I rebooted, many times in fact. I recently
defragged, cleaned up the system in many ways, but no
improvement.

This is crazy.

I have spent hours on this, and can find no errors on my
part.

I'm in the delightfully unstable Windows 98-2e.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Arthur

Have you ran scandisk to check for lost clusters?

"Arthur" wrote in message
...
Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and
folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it
comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times.

And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and
have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer
any data to this drive--I get that window stating that
it's full. I've been getting that message for weeks now.

Furthermore, I tranfered about 14gb OUT of this drive
today, and the free space didn't change!

And yes, I rebooted, many times in fact. I recently
defragged, cleaned up the system in many ways, but no
improvement.

This is crazy.

I have spent hours on this, and can find no errors on my
part.

I'm in the delightfully unstable Windows 98-2e.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Arthur

Do FDISK /Status at a DOS prompt. What are the partition details?

Are you running any Norton software, such as file protection and recovery?
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Arthur" wrote in message
...
Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and
folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it
comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times.

And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and
have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer
any data to this drive--I get that window stating that
it's full. I've been getting that message for weeks now.

Furthermore, I tranfered about 14gb OUT of this drive
today, and the free space didn't change!

And yes, I rebooted, many times in fact. I recently
defragged, cleaned up the system in many ways, but no
improvement.

This is crazy.

I have spent hours on this, and can find no errors on my
part.

I'm in the delightfully unstable Windows 98-2e.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Arthur

Yowza. I had not run scandisk--just used Norton's version,
which does fix allocation errors, cluster, etc--but I
guess not nearly well enough, because I started to run
scandisk, and about 1/3 way through, just for fun, I went
to check disc space. Lo and behold, 45gb free. Guess that
was it--did nothing else that could have affected the
space. Thanks for the idea. So much for Norton (though the
one-button checkup does catch a lot of other crap).
--Arthur
-----Original Message-----
Have you ran scandisk to check for lost clusters?

"Arthur" wrote in
message
...
Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and
folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it
comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times.

And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and
have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer
any data to this drive--I get that window stating that
it's full. I've been getting that message for weeks now.

Furthermore, I tranfered about 14gb OUT of this drive
today, and the free space didn't change!

And yes, I rebooted, many times in fact. I recently
defragged, cleaned up the system in many ways, but no
improvement.

This is crazy.

I have spent hours on this, and can find no errors on my
part.

I'm in the delightfully unstable Windows 98-2e.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Arthur


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Jeff, before I checked FDISK status, I ran scandisc as the
other fellow suggested.That seems to have fixed the
problem, as system now reads 45gb free. Thanks anyway for
the help.
--Arthur

PS I am running Norton System Works--does that include
file protection and recovery? I do run the onebutton
checkup regularly, with the abbreviated disc scan, and
also manually run some of the other clean up features.

-----Original Message-----
Do FDISK /Status at a DOS prompt. What are the partition
details?

Are you running any Norton software, such as file
protection and recovery?
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Arthur" wrote in
message
...
Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and
folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it
comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times.

And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and
have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer
any data to this drive--I get that window stating that
it's full. I've been getting that message for weeks now.

Furthermore, I tranfered about 14gb OUT of this drive
today, and the free space didn't change!

And yes, I rebooted, many times in fact. I recently
defragged, cleaned up the system in many ways, but no
improvement.

This is crazy.

I have spent hours on this, and can find no errors on my
part.

I'm in the delightfully unstable Windows 98-2e.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Arthur


.

Glad you got it sorted out.

wrote in message
...
Yowza. I had not run scandisk--just used Norton's version,
which does fix allocation errors, cluster, etc--but I
guess not nearly well enough, because I started to run
scandisk, and about 1/3 way through, just for fun, I went
to check disc space. Lo and behold, 45gb free. Guess that
was it--did nothing else that could have affected the
space. Thanks for the idea. So much for Norton (though the
one-button checkup does catch a lot of other crap).
--Arthur
-----Original Message-----
Have you ran scandisk to check for lost clusters?

"Arthur" wrote in
message
...
Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and
folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it
comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times.

And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and
have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer
any data to this drive--I get that window stating that
it's full. I've been getting that message for weeks now.

Furthermore, I tranfered about 14gb OUT of this drive
today, and the free space didn't change!

And yes, I rebooted, many times in fact. I recently
defragged, cleaned up the system in many ways, but no
improvement.

This is crazy.

I have spent hours on this, and can find no errors on my
part.

I'm in the delightfully unstable Windows 98-2e.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Arthur


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Thanks for the help.

-----Original Message-----
Glad you got it sorted out.

wrote in message
...
Yowza. I had not run scandisk--just used Norton's
version,
which does fix allocation errors, cluster, etc--but I
guess not nearly well enough, because I started to run
scandisk, and about 1/3 way through, just for fun, I
went
to check disc space. Lo and behold, 45gb free. Guess
that
was it--did nothing else that could have affected the
space. Thanks for the idea. So much for Norton (though
the
one-button checkup does catch a lot of other crap).
--Arthur
-----Original Message-----
Have you ran scandisk to check for lost clusters?

"Arthur" wrote in
message
.. .
Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and
folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it
comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times.

And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and
have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me
transfer
any data to this drive--I get that window stating that
it's full. I've been getting that message for weeks
now.

Furthermore, I tranfered about 14gb OUT of this drive
today, and the free space didn't change!

And yes, I rebooted, many times in fact. I recently
defragged, cleaned up the system in many ways, but no
improvement.

This is crazy.

I have spent hours on this, and can find no errors on
my
part.

I'm in the delightfully unstable Windows 98-2e.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Arthur


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