Still can't download. Thanks for the suggestions Michelle and Oleg. I got Partition Magic, no luck, and I don't have zone alarm. I'll rehash the situation and what I've tried. Maybe someone else can see what I'm missing. E-Machine 500is, Win98, 256RAM, 40g Western Digital HD.
The 40 G HD was added some time ago to supplement the music collection. Conflicts developed and it was restored using the E-Machine restore disk, and the WD setup disk to change BIOS settings. The stock 4G drive was abandoned in place, (connectors off), and life went on for about 8 months. Then a couple of weeks ago the downloading problem came up. Downloads won't go past the "getting file info" box.
Properties of the C drive reveal 3.6g used and 33.7 available. Internet options, Temp Internet files, file size settings are at 0 and won't allow a value to be inserted, it wants a value between 1 and 0. Virtual memory settings in system properties show a size of C\ as -31061MB (thats minus 31061), min.of 0, and max. of 34475.
I restored the old 4G HD and hooked up the two in tandem, (4G master, 40G slave). Then installed Partition Magic on the old drive to look at the 40 G drive, (can't install anything on the 40 HD). PM said the 40 was full. Used Explorer to look through the 40 folder by folder, added up the sizes and came up with over 3G under 4G. I think my download problem stems from the fact the system thinks the drive is full when its not. (By the way, no files show in the Temp Int Files folder, I've deleted them).
This sums it up: Drive Properties says- "There's lotsa space"
Internet settings says- "There's no space"
Virtual memory settings says- "There's lotsa negative space"
Partition Magic says- "There's no space"
Explorer says- "There's lotsa space"
Can anyone tell me how to make all tools read the same thing and get me the full use of the 40G HD ?????
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