Thanks Joseph, Chris and Clinton for your comments. But as I said, I
couldn't see how it could be a ram problem -many machines routinely defrag
with far less ram than 64Mb.
I believe the problem is stemming from the 18 month-old Fujitsu drive, which
is misreporting cluster size. Apparently, there have been a lot of troubles
with certain Fijitsu drives.
However, my distributor says he'll replace it, so the situation has been
resolved.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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