> When I run scandisk on this computer - PIII 500mhz, 128 mb ram,
> 13 gig hdd - it will return this error msg before it finished the scan
> "Scandisk has found your top level folder is full.  Please remove
> files and try again."
> I have looked for an explanation of this msg, but have not found
> any answers.  Hopefully, this list will be able to point me in the
> right direction to resolve this problem.

     Back in the days of FAT16/12 there was a limit as to the number of
entries that one could put in the root directory of the file system. I don't
remember exactly what the limit was but it wasn't as high as I thought it
should be. I thought with the advent of FAT32 this limitation was removed,
perhaps it wasn't. In either case, see if you can move or delete some of the
files stored in the root directory, that should clear up the problem.
(usually the root directory gets full when you run a scandisk, it detects
lost clusters, asks you whether you want to convert them to files and you
answer yes, thousands of files can be created this way. Unless you lost
something important, it is usually safe to delete these files, they usually
are of the form file001.chk). Hope this helped, TTYL

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