Free Disk Space Being Reported incorrectly

[Lightning]

Hi !
I have 128megs of ram
400Mhz Intel Pentium2 & 48x Cdrom ,Dvdrom ,13 gig h/d
I am running os win98S.E.
When my pc freeze at times , on bootup when it does that scandisk I usually check the scandisk log for what error occurred. & it's always the same old error [free diskspace was being reported incorrectly].

I also went in to the bios settings & it shows me 13601megs & in windows it shows 12967megs. Which one is telling the truth lol.

How do I fix this error ? I also repartition & reformated many times , but its still gives that Error. I look do forward to all who replies. Thanks In Advance:"Lightning"

[mjc]

In answer to the first part of your question, I think that the "free space error" is one of the most common errors after an improper shutdown. I think it is because Windows loses track of how much space is on the disk, it can be caused by things getting left in the swapfile, left in the cache or Windows thinks that something got left there, something along that line. Scandisk checks an compares what freespace was available last time Windows was running and whats there now (or when scan disk was last run, if you run scandisk several times without shutting down each run generates a new set of comparisons; if the two don't match then its a freespace error.

The second part the answer could be they both are; either different methods of calculating the space, in Windows the amount of disk overhead from flie fragmentation, or the size of the Windows swapfile (Windows doesn't report it as freespace if you have a fixed size swapfile, but if Windows manages the swapfile then your freespace in Windows will constantly change as the swapfile shrinks and grows)

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mjc