Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:7636 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:4254 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!e260-2c!c60c-3fz From: c60c-3fz@e260-2c.berkeley.edu (In Sik Rhee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Ever since I start using windows, strange things keep happening Keywords: windows, Message-ID: <1990Nov30.014554.26019@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 30 Nov 90 01:45:54 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Distribution: comp Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 44 In article nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Nan Zou ) writes: >I've had nothing but problems since I began using windows. After I install the >Orchid Pro II 1024x768x256 drivers, windows tells me 386 protection error, and >I have to reboot everytime. So I'll just use standard mode until I figure the >problem out. I know that Orchid has upgraded their windows 3.0 driver since I bought my Pro II... call their BBS and download the latest driver (if you dont have the #, call the # on the back of the manual and ask for it)... also, you might try posting about the problem on their bbs... >Last night, before I used windows, I did a 'dir' and saw I have about 38 meg >left on my hard disk. Then I went into windows and changed the setup. Upon exit >I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big file on my >hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing was added. So I went >to Norton File Size, and it reports 48,949,248 occupied by 1768 files, drive C: >has 85,106,688 capacity, and 23,947,264 was left. Now wait a minute, these num >bers don't add up, if I have 46 meg used up and 83 meg total, it should leave >me about 38 meg, which is what it should be. It seems that there's an invisible >file that take up 16 meg. Everything else runs fine. But I can't figure out why >I lost 16 meg after using windows. > >The machine is a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 megs of RAM, the hard disk is a 83M IDE. You might be having this problem if you exit windows abnormally (resetting the machine during a windows session, etc...) it may be that the temporary swap file isn't getting erased (it's a hidden file, so it wouldnt be reported by a dir)... if you cant find it, do a chkdsk /f to see if you've lost any clusters, and just restore and delete the files... if the problem is happening even if you exit normally, I dont know, but you should set up a permanent swap file for better performance anyway... > >As a sidenote, every time I boot up I get a message "WARNIGN: share should be >loaded for large media". But I've already loaded share in my autoexec. Could >this be related to my disk space problem? I would greatly appreciate any help. > > Nan ignore the share message, it's Dos 4.01's conservative message that automatically pops up when you have a larger capacity HD.. if you are't actually running a network, you shouldn't worry about it... hope this helped...