Hard drive space???

[bobwatford123]

I have two hard drives in my system. My O/S is on a 20 GB and I have an 80GB for storage. I have just cleaned up my 20GB and transferred a bunch of mp3's/video etc to my 80GB hard drive.
This is where the confusion comes in. When I right click my 20GB hard drive and go to properties it still says 12.5GB are being used (it must be lower) and my 80GB says less than 1GB is being used (its more like 10GB). Is this method of checking drive space use just inaccurate or what??? I can understand why my 20GB drive might be inaccurate as I haven't run disk cleanup or defragmented it, but the storage drive doesn't make sense. Before I transferred about 8GB to my 80GB hard drive it used to say about 3GB, and now it says less. Anyone know why??

Thanks.

[glc]

Run scandisk or chkdsk (depending on OS) on both drives.

[bobwatford123]

I ran scandisk, everything seems in order now, thanks. I seem to be getting alot of illegal operations during IE all of the sudden. I'm going to run Norton etc., if not I'll just reinstall it.

[glc]

What OS and what version of IE?

[bobwatford123]

I thought it was Windows 98 SE, and IE6 but actually I think its just 98 first edition. Within a few seconds of me opening EI, it says the illegal operation bit with details as follows.

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module URLMON.DLL at 015f:702b8cf6.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=015f EIP=702b8cf6 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00000000 SS=0167 ESP=0315ea7c EBP=0315ea9c
ECX=702b4db4 DS=0167 ESI=004d6cac FS=4407
EDX=0047e3f4 ES=0167 EDI=00000001 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 57 ff 74 24 10 50 ff 51 18 6a 00 8b ce 8b
Stack dump:
004d6b18 702b8c8b 004d6cac 00000000 70eb9da4 00000000 004c3074 00000000 0315eacc 70d6b12a 00000001 00000000 004c3160 004c3074 00000000 004d6b38

I've been erasing and uninstalling all kinds of crap(my O/S hard drive was a total mess) and may have erased something I needed. Mozilla firebird works fine, so I am using that for now. Maybe I should upgrade to WindowsXP. I don't really like the setup of that etc and this is why I haven't upgraded yet. I like 98.

[HAL9000]

You can make XP look just like 98... you don't have to use the new start menu etc.... I sure don't.

[glc]

Win98 and IE6 can be problematic - try reverting it to IE5 and see if that clears it up. Add/remove programs, IE6, restore previous.

[bobwatford123]

I tried reverting to my previous version, but I think all that did was get rid of a service pack I had installed. It's still IE6. I don't think I had ie5 since I formatted my hard drive etc about a year ago. Is there any way to totally get rid of IE6 and reinstall it?? I've run every diagnostic/ repairing program I have. All is perfect except this IE6 problem. How can I dump it and reinstall it?? Within seconds of opening IE it comes up with that illegal operation crap. I can just drag it off the screen and continue working, but it is still annoying.
Thanks again.

[glc]

Do the add-remove and revert again, it goes back one version at a time. 98SE should go back to 5.01 eventually, 98FE will go back to 4.01.

[bobwatford123]

I thought of that, but when I looked, it was no longer in the list of add/remove programs.

[glc]

You have 98, and it's still IE6? Lovely.

Will Windows Update work? If so, get all the criticals.

[bobwatford123]

Well, I got the critical updates, and somehow was able to reinstall IE6 from the update page. Haven't seen the illegal operation window yet, so I'm thinking the problem is solved. I'm thinking I should be paying you some money or something glc