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Date: | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:19:42 -0500 |
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Stick another 64 Mb or higher SDRAM in there, 66 Mhz, to see if the message goes away. If it does, the problem is fixed for $20, less than the cost of the time you've already spent on this issue. Plus the customer has a more modern amount of RAM to run programs. In fact, you might want to use that to sell the customer on replacing the 64 Mb with a modern day 256 Mb.
>A reinstall of W98SE on a customer's Celeron 733\64Mb pc was uneventful
>until I tried to Defrag. 'Not Enough Memory To Defrag', it told me. Say
>what?
>
>Turned out Scandisk wouldn't run for the same reason, though it worked ok in
>DOS. But neither facility would run in Safe Mode.
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>A google found umpteen references, some of which seemed to indicate that the
>problem is caused more by small cluster size, than lack of ram. From what I
>read, it seems possible to change the cluster size.
>
>Anyone able to comment on the matter?
>
>The subject pc's 20Gb Fujitsu HDD was fdisked to Fat32 and formatted
>normally.
>
>
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