Richard,

When I had this same problem, what I did was to turn off any screen saver, then hit ctrl>alt>delete, and start shutting down applications until the only thing left on the list is "Explorer." Then the disk defragmenter would work properly. This helped me after I added a slave HDD.

Good Luck.... Dean Kiley

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Malcolm S Mill 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 6:47 AM
  Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] defrag




  > hi  I have a system with two 20 gig hard drives, my problem is I can
  defrag drive d, which I use for storage but when I try on my C drive all
  that happens is I get a message saying "you do not have sufficient memory to
  carry out this task, close down some applications and try again" Im running
  win 98se. any idea's
  >
  > Richard Burdess

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