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Re: Not enough memory to defrag
From:
Clinton A Worley <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:39:24 -0500
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I have an old P150, 16M RAM, 6G HD, running Win98SE that runs Scandisk
and Defrag with no problems.
I would not think you'd have to add memory to get it to run.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:19:42 -0500 joseph marty
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> 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.
> >
> >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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