When I check the "properties" of the A: disk it says all space is used up, but it's also says "0 bytes being used". This doesnt make any sense and I've got things on this disk I need for school and can't retype. Does anyone know what's going on?
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Either the disk is damaged or the drive is dirty or damaged.\n\nIf the disk is the problem, run  CheckDisk on it.  \n\nStart-->Run\n\nin the Run box, type CHKDSK A:  then press Enter.\n\nIf that doesn't work, the disk cannot be repaired, or the trouble is with the drive.
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Usually no, these files are small.  Do a search for large files on the disk to find out what is taking up the space.
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Wow, those are horrible options.  Here is the program you want to use.  If you like it, buy it.  It's a great program!\n\nDiskdata  (see link below)
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Now, that's got me thinking.\n\n3.5 inch floppies came in 2 sizes. 750K (or there about ) and 1.4 M\n\nA  1.4 meg drive can read both both sizes of disk.\nA 750 k drive can only read the smaller disk.\n\nThe format (disk geometry) will be different on each size of disk\n\nIt may be that the head alignment is out on the drive that is failing.
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Hi there:\n\nI answer this question all the time.\n\nHERE is a complete copy and paste of the last ANSWER I gave, which has all the information you need. As you state, you DO NOT WANT to format or scandisk or defrag, or anything that touches the tracks on your floppy !\n\nSEE below:\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@\n\nI lost my data I saved on floppy?\n\nI saved some email messages on a floppy disc and brought it home from work and went to look at them on my computer at home and when I tried to open the floppy it said disco not formatted would you like to format now yes no. Have I lost my data? What should I do?\nAdditional Details\n\nthey are no longer in my email. just on floppy. If i take it back to work will it work there it did the other day.\n\nBest Answer - Chosen by Asker\n\nHi there:\n\nYou have probably NOT lost any data.\nFloppy copy and read problems are VERY common, and people have forgotten how to use them and maintain them.\n\nI looked at the two other answers before mine. The first states that you lost everything. _ WRONG !!\nThe second states that you are using a different operating system ( WRONG -- a floppy is a floppy is floppy unless you are using a MAC vs PC, and even you would be smart enough to know that they are different !)\n[[ Another rare situation is where you are using an OLD, 3 1/4 inch floppy on one machine, and a "new" 3 1/4 inch floppy drive on another machine, since the DRIVES Themselves, are different FORMATS ( the operating systems ( DOS, WIndows would be the same, and understand both formatting systems, but the mechanical heads and tracks are different ! ) There a dozens of different Floppy read/writers, and different FORMATs and sizes. The first IBM PC shipped with no harddrive, no floppy, and 16K of ram. There was a big DIN plug identical to the old keyboard plug, that you plugged in a cable that went to your Audio Cassette player, to load programs.. Then came the full height, single sided, low density, 5 1/2 inch floppy, then the high density, then the low density, two sided floppy, then the two sided High density floppy. Then all of these were replaced with the LOW density 3 1/4 inch floppy, and later the High Density 3 1/4 inch.\nIFF you have a normal, modern 3 1/4 inch HIGH density disk writer at the office, and try to use it in the ancient 3 1/4 LOW density disk unit at home, the older low density machine will not know what the tracks on the floppy are - it will be reading two tinier high density tracks at the same time and get garbage data.\nThe odds of you having a 720 K floppy Machine at home, and a 1.44 Meg floppy Unit at work, are almost zero, but I thought I would mention it ! ) ]]\nThe second answer states to but the floppy BACK in the originating computer, and this actually WOULD have a high success rate.\n\nTHE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO " NOT " scandisk, or defrag or touch the floppy in ANY WAY.\nMake your disk ' holy " at once, and prevent any writing of any kind, by flipping the little tab down so that BOTH HOLES on the corners are open ( holy disk ), so that your disk is protected from evil ( programs that WRITE or try to repair it- which would destroy YOUR data in the process of " repairing " the tracks -- they do not give a hoot about YOUR data, only in re-viving the useability of the disk -- BEWARE ! ! )\n\nThere are many precautions in using floppies. The first, is to ALWAYS FULL FORMAT ( not the silly "quick format" ) the disk before writing to it, even if it is NEW and out of the package...\n\nThe other problem is the LACK of use of ordinary floppy drive machines. They continually build up layers of dust, and when people DO go to use them, they gum up the heads with dirt. There are floppy cleaner disks available at most computer stores and dollar stores, and you SHOULD clean them if they have not been in use very much...\n\nAnother problem is the slight variation in the HEAD size, and the HEAD alignment, of different fl
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I would suggest you right click on my computer and go to manage and then that will bring up a console and you go to disk management and you should be able to see what it says about your external drive ie if its un allocated or w/e. Post back with that info, btw did this hard drive work correctly in your other computer before it broke down or did it break down because the hard drive broke down or what ?
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Whoever installed windows on your machine enabled "Disk compression" to save space while installing is my guess on what happened. To disable: open "my computer" right click on your "C:" drive, click on properties at the bottom you should see 2 check boxes and one of them says "compress drive to save disk space" take the check out of the box. It will take a while for the process to finish, but that should do it. restart the machine and try to reinstall
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It's a re-format.\n\nThat's when you use the format command which makes your computer believe the hard disk is empty.  Then you would have to re-store all your software and programs.\n\nIf you know what you need to backup and have your Window CD you should do it yourself.
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Only thing I know is it may be a bad cd-r disk. I've had that problem. If you've tried multiple disks, I don't known what to tell you. Hope this helps!
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Can't answer the first question.\n\nThe native state of computer memory is null. That is not the same as blank or zero; it's nothing.
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Yuck, that means the disc is bad. I hate it when that happens, thats why I use CDs now and I double backup.\n\nI'm sorry, but there is a chance your floppy has gone bad and it wont be use-able until you format it again, which will erase all data.\n\nTo make sure, I would try to open the floppy on a different computer. If it opens , then that means you might need to clean your floppy drive a bit.
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I couldn't find any English assistance when I did a search on the file in Google, and the file is not on my PC. What is your F:&#92; drive though.  maybe that will give us some insight.
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The size does sound a little suspicious.  It's possible it may just not be a complete package.  Hard to tell until you've unzipped it and let the anti-virus software have a look at it.  \n\nI just downloaded the complete Roxio Easy Media Creator 8.0 as a torrent file, and it was over half a gig, packed.
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Right click on your recycle bin and go to properties look at the settings may be a check mark in delete auto or it is at it's limit for space and cannot store them anymore.....\nHope it helps....
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I doubt it. 800x600 may be for older computers, but I don't see how that would cause any problems since 800x600 is still usable. More likely it's a hard drive corruption.
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I believe it's indicating a damaged part of your hard drive.\n\nI would conduct a defragmentation of the drive.\n\nIdeally back up your data and then re-format your hard-drive and start again.  Timely but effective.
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there is clearly a problem with your hard drive - if you have a boot disk, you should try using it, and then checking if any of the C: drive is readable.\n\nvisit \n\nwww.ultimatebootcd.com\n\nfor some good boot utilities and advice...