Qintin
June 1st 04, 03:02 PM
Last night I used Steganos 4.15 to clean up my cache (temp internet
files,
> > etc). Today I discover that my hard drive seems to have shrank by about
> > 3GB.
> >
> > Checking through the files, it is clear that there are no new files but
> > Windows Explorer and DOS are saying there is less space than in reality.
> > They are saying 400MB when there should be about 3.6GB. When I go to
> > properties in Windows explorer the c:/windows dir gives the inaccurate
> > figure. On scandisk in DOS when looking at the drive it will jump from
18%
> > scanned to 72% scanned (so clearly ignoring the files which do not
exist).
> >
> > I have tried uninstalling Steganos, using scandisk (dos and windows),
etc,
> > but cannot get the right free space size back. On one occasion scandisk
in
> > DOS said that the file space was being recorded incorrectly and it would
fix
> > it, but nothing changed, even though scandisk said it had fixed the
problem.
> > Running in safe mode also does not help. This is nothing to do with the
> > windows swap files, temp files, etc.
> >
> > Any ideas? I am running a Compaq Presario with Windows ME. Compaq
diagnostics reports the wrong hard drive size too.
> >
> > Thanks!
files,
> > etc). Today I discover that my hard drive seems to have shrank by about
> > 3GB.
> >
> > Checking through the files, it is clear that there are no new files but
> > Windows Explorer and DOS are saying there is less space than in reality.
> > They are saying 400MB when there should be about 3.6GB. When I go to
> > properties in Windows explorer the c:/windows dir gives the inaccurate
> > figure. On scandisk in DOS when looking at the drive it will jump from
18%
> > scanned to 72% scanned (so clearly ignoring the files which do not
exist).
> >
> > I have tried uninstalling Steganos, using scandisk (dos and windows),
etc,
> > but cannot get the right free space size back. On one occasion scandisk
in
> > DOS said that the file space was being recorded incorrectly and it would
fix
> > it, but nothing changed, even though scandisk said it had fixed the
problem.
> > Running in safe mode also does not help. This is nothing to do with the
> > windows swap files, temp files, etc.
> >
> > Any ideas? I am running a Compaq Presario with Windows ME. Compaq
diagnostics reports the wrong hard drive size too.
> >
> > Thanks!