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Then don't go around deleting txt files, since some may be informational some day and they aren't really taking up that much space. >>
Actually, those little text files take up a good chunk of space. Each tiny little file, even if it's only 1 byte, is going to take at least 4k of hard drive real estate (fat32). On a single partition, fat32, 10 GIG drive the clusters are probably 8-16k, therefore, they may take up more space than you realize. When you're running tight every bit counts. Many of the systems I work on have junk txt files taking up as much as 3MB of space in terms of clusters.
People forget that CLUSTERS control the available drive space and NOT file size.
2336 - Yes sir, that drive sounds like it's toast to me. You didn't mention how much RAM is on that PC. Lot's of web surfing on machines with only 32-64MB RAM can actually put a lot of wear on the drive. Besides speeding up a PC, the best thing RAM does is help save the hard drive.
