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Peter
April 19th 03, 05:46 PM
Hi,

Try go to disk management and see how big is your C drive
and how many drives you have of your harddisk.
Also, in the lower pane, see if there is any free space
that is not yet formated/partitioned.

Peter

>-----Original Message-----
> Not really but you might try opening cmd prompt,at the
> curser type:CHKDSK Then hit enter on keyboard.The
> utility doesnt perform the "fixes",but will display
> the contents more acuratly than explorer does.To run
> the utility type:CHKDSK /F
>>-----Original Message-----
>>PLEASE HELP........ I am running XP Pro, I have a 30g
>>drive installed and when I open my computer it indicates
>>I have 256mb available space. If I click properties of
>>the drive it also tells me it is full. If I open drive
C
>>and select all and click properties it indicates I have
>>only 5.8g of stuff on that drive. I noticed this
problem
>>when I tried to perform a routine defrag it told me I
>>needed at least 15% available space to perform. Has
>>anyone seen or heard of this? Please let me know.
>>
>>Smitty
>>.
>>
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