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Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
 
Today, I just updated my America Online from 8.0 to 9.0. Everything went fine until after I started the bloody thing, the XP Pro version of the Blue Screen of Death saying it is dumping the physical memory or something to that effect. Afer that completed and the computer restarted, I noticed that my 20 GB Hard Drive partion on Drive C went from 1.07GB to 384MB. I uninstalled the AOL 8.0 and still I can't account on why I lost about 1GB.

Any ideas?
 
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
Beyond "AOL SUXXX0RZZZZ!!!!"?

Nope.
 
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
 
a) look for a memory.dmp file in C:\winnt or whatever winxp uses. Failing, that just scan your hard drive for large new files. (Do you have around a GB of RAM?)

b) Try running a scandisk...
 
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
 
You use AOL? you deserve what you get. [Wink]

Try clearing out the cache and the temp files in your Windows directory.
 
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
 
OMGLOLAOL!1!!!
 
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
 
HE GOT THE AOL AND LOST TEH GAME!!!!11
 
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
 
How do I clean up the Cache and Temp files in Windows? Do I just delete the files in the folders?

And yes, AOL sucks at least in 9.0...
 
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
 
Cache:
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Internet Options.

Under Temporary Files, press the Delete Files Option.

Temp Directory:
Simply go into C:\Windows\Temp and delete everything that you can.

When there is a core dump, it usually lies in a file that is at the C: root directory. I forgot what this file is supposed to be.
 
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
 
Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Disk Cleanup

is another way
 
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
 
I've tried Disk Cleanup... still I can't recover all the 1 GB that went missing when the memory core dump initiated. Oh well... I guess I am getting the hard drive updated to the Hitachi 60GB 7,200rpm drive I saw.
 


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