256MB SDRAM and "Not enough memory" !!!??!?!? help..

[knowley]

Hi people!

I have 256MB Pc133 cas 2 memory in a KT7 moherboard with athlon 700 and a 30GB HD.

When I try and run DEFRAG I get a message saying not enough memory!

I know this used to work but I have not run one for a month or so, I have tried closing all progs and have also tried safe mode (BTW its WIN98 SE) and still get the same message.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks
Knowley!

 

[Gunbuster]

Time to reload

 

[knowley]

but its not that old a install.

one thing IU forgot to mention is I used a little program recently called drive upgrader. It moves hd info from drive to drive, so I used it to upgrade my 8GB HD to my new 30GB hd with out having to reinstall everything. My system is fine but maybe this has caused it?

 

[Dameon]

knowley, can you provide the full error? It's possible this may just be a problem with the system.ini file.... but I need the full error to be sure

 

[Howard]

Make sure you let Windows manage Virtual Memory by itself.

 

[knowley]

Error message as follows :

Error Defragmenting Drive C

Your computer does not have enough free memory to defragment this drive. Quit one or more programs, and then try defragmenting this drive again.


ID No: DEFRAG009 OK

(btw how do you paste picys in this forum?)

At the mo Cacheman is managing my Virtual Memory. Its set to Win98 Power User.

Thanks guys n gals avoiding a reinstall would be nice as I have my MCSE downloaded at the mo.

Cheers

 

[Budman]

Reboot in SAFE MODE and run defrag from there.

 

[knowley]

read again...I did

thanks for your input though

 

[weeber]

I've had some problems with cacheman and certain programs before (though not defrag). Stop using it and have Windows manage the virtual memory itself.

Good luck

 

[knowley]

I just turned off Cacheman and tried defrag in both normal and safe mode (win98se) and just get the same problem.

Keep em coming!

thanx

 

[Taz4158]

Defrag Error Message: ID NoEFRAG009
If you get an error message:


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

or:


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

See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q258838 for a solution.
Info is here

 

[knowley]

Nice one Taz4158!!!!!!!!!!

I used Partition Magic and had 4K clusters so I repartitioned to 16K clusters and hey presto!!!!!

Is there any (dis)advantage to having larger clusters???

Thanks a million

 

[Dameon]

larger clusters - system will generally have better performance reading from HD, but more "slack space". IE - if you have a 1K file in a 8K cluster... you get 7k of slack, 15k of slack in a 16k cluster etc...

Unless you have a boatload of 1k HTM files or something, or are really short on HD space, shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Taz4158]

You're welcome.