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May 28th, 2001, 07:43 AM
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Drive space indicater Wrong.
I have a Compaq 5190 Win.98 4.1 400mhz AMD prosser 128mg mem. 12gig hard. DVD Rom 56K Int. Modem____________This has never seemed to have caused any problem. I would just like to correct it. IF LEFT CLICK MY COMPUTER THEN RIGHT CLICK C DRIVE THEN LEFT CLICK PROPERTIES, INDICATOR WORKES FINE.------NUMBER OF GIG BYTES AND PIE CHART SEEMES TO BE CORRECT.------IF I GO THROUGH START MENU, PROGRAMS,ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM TOOLS, THEN CLICK DriveSpace. SELECT DRIVE C CLICK DRIVE THEN PROPERTIES. PIE CHART SHOWES NONE USED AND FREE SPACE ONLY 2gig AND USED SPACE ZERO k.
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May 28th, 2001, 09:57 AM
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Is this drive partitioned at all?
Also is it FAT32? I'm thinking that maybe Drive Space may be an old version and doesn't understand the way the drive is set up?
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May 28th, 2001, 05:55 PM
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This was a 2nd hand computer so I'm not sure about the Partition. I do know that where it shows [C] propreties correctly.-------The label box is empty with a blinking bar.-----Type:Local Disk------------------------------File system: Fat32. Thanks.
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May 28th, 2001, 06:13 PM
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I'm not familiar with Drive Space myself, is it a particularly big problem that it's giving you rubbish info?
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May 28th, 2001, 07:40 PM
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Thanks Steven. For the Info. Every thing works and runs fine. I've just been curious about that since got the computer a few months back. PS. all other items in ----------[System Tools] works fine also.
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#6
May 28th, 2001, 10:00 PM
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no problem, someone might have an answer, but if it's not messing anything up it's probably easiest to ignore it
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#7
May 29th, 2001, 12:01 AM
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The reason for that is. When you click on Drive Space it is only telling you that the Drive is not compressed. It isn't actually telling you how much room you have. It is only a Picture and nothing more, not an actual account as to how much space you have.
I have a 13gig HD on this HP. When I click on Drivespace it says. THis drive is not compressed, then tells it has 2gig free space and 0 used. Hope this helps clear it up... BTW, I seriously doubt that with a 12gig HD that anyone would use Drivespace to Compress the drive.... It would take forever to do it. Drivespace is a disk compression utitily. Used to free up alot of space on your Hard drive, Floppies etc. The only problem is that it takes atleast twice as long to recover any Data you put on this drive. It is compressed, so in order to view it, it has to be uncompressed before it can be viewed. IMHO, it is not a good way to free up disk space... [ 28 May 2001: Message edited by: Dodge ]
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May 29th, 2001, 02:22 AM
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Thanks for the info Steven Bently And Dodge. I will ignore that indicator and keep on computing.-----Thanks Again
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