Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:22:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: 400 MB of my HD is missing
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I think it is something wrong with dir /s /a. I got 1.6GB HD and when I
use dir /s /a it says 900MB used and 100MB free (600MB missing) but chkdsk
reports 1.5GB used. I think what could be the case is that small files
take much more space that their real size is and if you have a lot of
small files (I got 32K files on my disk) dir reports the actual size of
all files not how much space they are taking, at least I think so.

On 28 Jan 1997 ltcmdr AT ix DOT netcom DOT com wrote:

> 
> On 1997-01-28 seyed AT cse DOT unsw DOT EDU DOT AU said:
>    >Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.
>    >hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release,comp.os.ms-windows
>    >X-Sender: seyed AT eiger DOT pv DOT unsw DOT EDU DOT AU
>    >Hi there,
>    >I have dos6.2, win3.1, win95 installed on my Pentium 90 computer. I
>    >have 1.2G HD. Recently I realised that about 400MB of my HD is
>    >missing. When I use 'chkdsk /f' comand in dos it says 1G is used
>    >and 200MB is free but when I use 'dir /s /a' it says 600MB is used
>    >and 200MB is free.
>    >I also tried win95. When I use 'disk properties' it says 1G is used
>    >and 200 is free but when I select all the files and directories by
>    >Explorer and click the properties by clicking the right mouse
>    >botton while pointing to the selection, it says 600MB is the space
>    >occupied by all the files.
>    >Any one knows how I can find out what is happenning and where is
>    >that 400MB of my HD and how I can find it and recover it other than
>    >reformating my HD please send me an email.
>    >I have the whole 1.2GB in one big partition.
>    >Thanks,
>    >Seyed
> 
> Any chance you have a 400 meg swapfile in that mess? :-)  Seriously, though,
> check to see if you have doublespace (or drivespace) drives. Betcha that's
> what the problem is.
> 
> 
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>