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Title: Approximately 2,5 GB are simply missing on my hd?
Post by: Ostfarmare on 24 March 2003, 19:34

Missing space:
0,5 on C:\,
1 on D:\,
1 on E:\.
OS: Win 98

Each drive should have 1,9 GB, but when wieving the size of the folders, disk space is missing as stated above. Reason? Cure?

Title: Approximately 2,5 GB are simply missing on my hd?
Post by: Calum on 24 March 2003, 20:17

you can download software which will eliminate this problem from this site here (http://linuxiso.org/).

by the way, did you look down the back of the sofa? usually i find that stuff which is missing often turns up there.

Title: Approximately 2,5 GB are simply missing on my hd?
Post by: Ostfarmare on 24 March 2003, 22:05

Well, but is there a cure given that you keep Win 98?

Title: Approximately 2,5 GB are simply missing on my hd?
Post by: Maniaman on 24 March 2003, 22:34

Might ask www.windowsBBS.com (http://www.windowsBBS.com) if you want to keep win98.

Otherwise go to the link Calum said  :D

Title: Approximately 2,5 GB are simply missing on my hd?
Post by: Refalm on 25 March 2003, 00:22

You shouldn't keep Windows 98 at all. You should delete it and forget about it.

Title: Approximately 2,5 GB are simply missing on my hd?
Post by: swapnil on 5 April 2003, 09:04

I faced similar problem.I took out my HDD for to my friend .Copied some data.When I came back found that all data was missing .I thought i copied ti in wrong place.But windows was showing correct occupied space.Then  ran ScanDisk from DOS promt it showed erro but recovered all files.
This happens each time i copy something on HDD or even copy something from RedHat 8.0 on FAT32 drive.
I had to scandisk to get files.
Windows really sucks!

Title: Approximately 2,5 GB are simply missing on my hd?
Post by: bling on 6 April 2003, 19:21

Well I dont think its Windows' fault this time. Technicly, "gigabytes" are not just a 1,000,000,000 bytes, its like 1,020,384,382. So while my HD is a 20gb (as in 1 million bytes) the computer reads it as 18.6 (as the larger gigabyte.)