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i have almost 3 gigs available on my hd, and windows keep coming up and telling me that my hd is full, i've tried running disc cleanup, and messing with the virtual memory capasities, but it doesn't seam to remedy. can anyone please help? |
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which OS ver. d'you have got ? never heard that problem. btw. what's happen last night ? i was at home at 21:30 ...to late ? |
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i had to run some erands...and then crashed... i'm running win 98 |
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i'd be more than happy to trade with you but i cant even launch soulseek now...it's once said "error creating a blak document" and now it loads up, connects, and then shuts down |
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blak=blank |
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hmmm.... firstly, uninstall soulseek and re install it. that problem with your 3 gigs, make a scandisk, or defrag it.... and let see what happen ... maybe your hd is an old one ? |
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will un-re installing soulseek erase my lists, and qued d/ls? my hd is like 2-3 yrs old |
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hmmm i dunno much about soulseek, but look in the install folder, there are many cfg files (config files), save this files, who are important, maybe the share.cfg or whatever... |
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Not trying to insult your intelligence, but you have tried restarting the computer, right? |
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yeah, i've done that one plenty o times. and i think something is pretty messud up, because all i have running is explorer, windows, and defrag, (and i turn off my dsl) and my c drive defrag keeps restarting, but i know nothing is being writen to it... |
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Are you sure about the 3 Gigs spare?...seems very odd... Do a chkdsk on the drive and post the figures it's returns....& I'll try to help... (Isn't there a HD size limit in WIN98?...about 2 gigs per partition...)... |
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jand to the rescue! ok, here's the results: 10,006,696 total disk space 3,334,416 kilobytes free 8,192 bytes in each allocation unit 1,250,837 total allocation units on disk 416,802 available allocation units on disk 651,264 total bytes memory 626,656 bytes free |
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The 2 gig limit was with the original Windows 95, Jand. Windows 95 OSR2 sorted that out. |
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Nanotech - you don't have more than one harddrive in your computer do you? The reason I ask is that your computer 'swapfile' may be on another drive which might be pretty much full. |
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turn off all appliacations by defragging or scanning your HD... the 2gig limit is on FAT, you FAT32 partitions. windows 98 do that automatically if you do a greater partition than 2gigs. |
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you deifnately have a FAT32 Partition.. |
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Windows 98 doesn't automatically use FAT32 for drives bigger than 2gig Map. It's a choice you can make yourself. |
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actually, i do have another physical drive. neither is partitioned. what i posted is c: and my d: is 2 gigs, with about 1.5 free. where is this swapfile that you talk about? and what should i do to it? |
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Weird...yep, you have a FAT32 partition so that should be fine... Anychance of a screendump of the exact Windows message...that would help in our detective work... |
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ok i can get a screen shot... do you want me to e-mail it to you? |
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jedi chris, if you use fdisk, he ask you for the the 2gig limit or not, so, NT can't read FAT32, so you can use only 2gb partitions. BUT if you have windows98, and do a greater partition than 2gig, he automatically do a FAT32 Partition. |
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It has been a while since I have used Windows 98 (at least 3 years..) NTFS rules - yay!!! |
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i sent the screen shot to your e-mail |
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ntfs? |
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NT File system |
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new technology file system, permission rights for network systems, file encryptiona and so on and so on... |
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I use Windows XP Pro, XP Home Edition and Windows 2000 server. Its much better than FAT32 |
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what exactly is fat32? i know it has something to do with partioning hd's, and i've used it before on my old pc, but i forgot practially everything about it... |
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i just use Windows98SE Lite for HD recording, with an Audiophile 2496, i have a latency under 4,5 ms. maybe i set up an FTP Server with Windows 2000 Server... |
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The Difference between FAT 16 and FAT32 is the Reserved OS/2 Byte (Offset 20 [14h]) in the Short Filename Structure is replaced with the High Word of the Cluster Number (since it's now 4 bytes instead of 2). |
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The Advanced Server version is better...it deals with disk clusters better. Nanotech...FAT32 format in which data is able to be stored in a more efficient manner on the disk. It's to do with cluster sizes of data. So for arguments sake, a drive that is formatted with FAT32 will get more Megabytes to it, as opposed to FAT. (FAT+File Allocation Table) |
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so is that why in old windows it had to be 8 chars+.3chars, and now it's anything you can type +.3chars? |
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exactly, that was the problem when you copied something and edited by dos an renamend to aphex~12.mp3 |
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so could all those extra chars be taking up space that windows isn't telling me? |
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I wouldn't think so.. |
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no i don't think so. does he show the whole size from you Harddisk ? how many partitions d'you have ? Windows98 don't have many options to manage your Disks, so it'll be not hard to find out what's wrong... |
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shit on my english, i'm going to lunch, brb.... |
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check your e-mails guys, i sent you all screenshots. |
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Can't see anything obvious from the screenshots...a pity... Everything looks fine... Maybe try running a SCANDISK and see if that reports any errors at all.... Are you editting very big files at all, when the message comes up?... |
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What are you having for lunch? |
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go to yer trashcan properties, and set the amount of diskspace used to 1%. it's enough. then go to yer windows/temp directory, select everything in it, and delete all. go in the "run" section and type ms config. in the main screen. check Selective startup, and unchek start config.sys and autoexec.bat. (sometimes dos variable mess with windows, and win don't need those two to start.) then go in the last section that must be called startup or something like. and post all progz that are checked, if it's needed, i'll tell yu wich one to uncheck... |
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Nanotech, just got your email - what is the capacity and amount of free space on your drive d: ? PS. Don't waste your time trying to run CHKDSK (as your screenshot shows...) |
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go in the "run" section and type ms config. ok, i did everything up till this point. and when i do this, i can't seem to launch ms config. i type it into my run comand, and it says that it can't find "ms config" so i then type config, and it opens c:\windows\config\ with a file called "general.idf." i then try to open it, and can't because windows doesn't recongnize it. |
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d: has 1.5 gig free out of 2 gig |
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type msconfig - with no spaces! |
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Plenty of space there then....hmmmmmm an interesting one this is! |
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Here's a shot in the dark - do you have virus software installed on your computer? If not, I'm wondering whether or not you have a virus that is interfering with things! |
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the best what you can do is, backup all your files, delete all partitions and create one, clean 10gb partition, format them and make a clean install from Windows98 SE (or Windows 2000/XP, but not ME, it sucks) after OS and driver installation, everything should work fine, re-create your backup, install your software (winamp, soulseek and so on) delete unusual files (bmp, txt, html, wav, tmp, jpg, all this files from microsoft windows) activate the DMA option on your harddisk and cd-rom's (do it 2 times, then he ask to reboot) .... that is just my recommendation. jedi: a pizza |
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ME is built using Windows 98SE technology, and therefore is a better platform...I used it for about 18 months, its so much reliant and stable. And the inclusion of System Restore was really cool! But yes XP or 2000 would be a better choice! |
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yes. msconfig with no space. dumb of me. |
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