but if you brought the laptop with you, when you finally get to your destination and have time, try doing a Search for *.chk and delete any that you find that begins with File000, File001, etc. These are all scrap fragments of files that had errors that Scandisk had already fixed and then created those files on your harddrive. They are garbage and can be dumped. Then empty your recycle bin and reboot the computer.
Now you can check the Properties of the disk and see if you have more room to play.
TONI
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop that lives in my office closet. I hauled it out so that I could get some work done over Christmas break (university type here). I booted it up and found that it was still running on Windows 98, so I upgraded to XP so that my programs would be compatible.
Now it says that the 10 gig hard drive is 94% full--and I can't find with what. I've stripped everything I can find, emptied the temp directories, etc. It should be nowhere near 5 gigs of stuff, let alone 10.
I'm running defrag, thinking that it would at least try to read the whole drive. In the analysis, everything looks fine, the map showing mostly empty space, until it gets to about 80 percent done. At that point, the whole graph starts to fill in with blue for contiguous files.
Any suggestions? I'm supposed to get up and drive twelve hours tomorrow, starting at 7:00 a.m. HELP!!
mmcjprof.
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