on 3/12/02 12:39 AM, ben at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this is kindof an outside shot, but when you "get info" about your > hard drive, how big does it say it is? i had a friend running 9.1 on > a newer iMac DV+ have a problem where he ended up with a few trash > temp files that registered as being around 600 gigs each. when i > checked the size of his HD it registered as around 8 Tb (terrabites)! > 8000 gigs! when it calculated how much data was on the disc it came > back with a negative number. we couldn't get it to do anything big > because the computer couldn't get accurate data on its own HD. in the > end i backed up the whole drive on cds and wiped it, reformatted and > reinstalled Mac OS. it has been fine since then. but remember, that > wasn't a revB. like i said, just an outside shot. > > ben > > >> On 3/11/02 9:54 PM, "chris borger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I tried to install Norton Anti-Virus and a message came up >>> telling me I didn't have enough room on my hard drive. (??) >>> We know THAT'S not true. >> >> This I don't know about, but it's not your memory. Do you have your disk >> partitioned? Have you tried installing on a different partition? >> Back to this again, I have not preformed a clean install, this is my next option for sure, but I'm hopefull that its really a no brainer, something simple any body want to give this a shot please do I need input here thanks Chris borger
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