scandisk & defrag problem :(

[pogiako]

I have a PIII,450 mhz,248 ram pc,w/ 2 hard drives. The problem is I could not run defrag and scandisk on my secondary hard drive. I use to have no problems w/ this now I don't know what's up. When I try to do so this error message would come up "you don't have enough memory,blah blah blah,close other running programs and try again...." I'd press ctrl,alt,del and would leave only the "explorer" and the "systray" running but the problem still occurs. Can anyone help me ? TNX !!!

[iisbob]

Boot into safe mode when you run these apps, you'll not have anything in the background to " distract " them at that time. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[pogiako]

Went to safe mode but same error message comes up iisbob http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif
any other way I can solve this ? tnx !

[sea69]

Err Msg: Your Computer Does Not Have Enough Free Memory to Defrag the Drive

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release, versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.5
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to run Disk Defragmenter (Defrag.exe) or ScanDisk (Scandskw.exe), you may receive one of the following error messages:

Your computer does not have enough free memory to defrag the drive. Quit one or more programs.
ID# Defrag009


ScanDisk could not continue because your computer does not have enough available memory.

CAUSE
This issue can occur if you are running Windows on a hard disk that is larger than 8 gigabytes (GB) in size and has a cluster size less than 8 kilobytes (KB). This configuration may be created if you use a third-party disk tool to create a partition on a hard disk that is larger than 8 (GB) in size and has a cluster size less than 8 KB.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, contact the manufacturer of the third-party hard disk tool to inquire about a possible update to the software that resolves this issue.

MORE INFORMATION
The standard FAT32 cluster size of 4,096 bytes only applies for hard disks smaller than 8 GB. The third-party hard disk tool may change the cluster size to 4,096 bytes per allocation unit.

The default cluster sizes are listed in the following table.

Hard disk size Cluster size
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512 MB to 8 GB 4 KB
8 GB to 16 GB 8 KB
16 GB and larger 16 KB


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[iisbob]

Umm, seems sea has pretty much detailed about everything you may need to know about this error; but if you find it too much to comprehend you can copy scandisk.exe from your windows/command folder to your win98 boot floppy and when you get to the command prompt( A:> ) just type: scandisk your drive leter , making sure to leave a space between the command and the destination ( same as you would do for fdisk or format ). There is a defrag utility that you used to could run from DOS, but it's not recommended as it can cuase problems with windows handling of long file names-so i wouldn't recommend using it.

Sorry if this doesn't help u much more.

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[This message has been edited by iisbob (edited 07-19-2001).]

[Rexa]

I would also suggest opening your config file witth notepad and increase the file/buffer size. This may do the trick. If it doesnt. You can always reopen it and restore the settings.

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[Paleo Pete]

Would you be referring to the config.sys file? You didn't say, just config...

If so, config.sys is not normally used by Windows, and usually should not be altered. Windows does its own memory management, without using config.sys or autoexec.bat. They also would only affect DOS mode, I don't think setting FILES= and BUFFERS= lines in the config.sys would have any affect on Windows or Windows applications.

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