derfrag

Discussion in 'Software' started by owl, Apr 21, 2003.

  1. owl

    owl Private E-2

    I haver an unusual problem that I am hoping that someone else has encountered and has a solution for. I installed a second hard drive on my machine, and the system will not defrag it. The error message is that I do not have enough ram to defrag. My system parameters are as follows:
    Pentium III 733 mhz
    256 meg ram
    award bios
    GA-6VX7-4x motherboard
    Primary hard drive WDC WD 300 BB-00AwA1 30gig
    Secondary hard drive Maxtor 92041U4 25 gig
    Operating system Windows 98 2nd ed. with all recommended upgrades.

    The second hard drive is 7200 rpm, and I suspect that this may have something to do with it, but it works fine for storage. Both drives are set up for dma. Thanks for any help you can give.

    owl
     
  2. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    typically this message is displayed when the drive has reached a capacity in which it cannot move data around in order to defrag. Is the drive formatted? is the drive full?
     
  3. owl

    owl Private E-2

    no, the driver is about 20% full, and it has done this since newly installed.
     
  4. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    is the drive partitioned at all?
     
  5. owl

    owl Private E-2

    no, it's straight fat32 single partition.
     
  6. the_master_josh

    the_master_josh Specialist

    Have you tried defragging it in Safe Mode? Since safe mode disables a whole lotta crap that loads into RAM when you start the computer, you should have more free RAM to defrag. Otherwise, it looks like you need to use a different defragger or buy another 256MB stick of PC-133 RAM.
     
  7. suesman

    suesman First Sergeant

    Can't find the link just yet, but you can use the defrag.exe from Windoze ME. It's faster & you get alot less errors when using it. I used it for a long time with none of the ususl errors associated with 98SE.

    I'll keep looking for the link to get it or maybe someone else might know of a way.

    Chris
     
  8. suesman

    suesman First Sergeant

  9. owl

    owl Private E-2

    defragging in safe mode doesn't work. I suppose that I could up the ram, but the C: disk is larger than the D: disk, and a lot fuller, and it defrags with less ram than is currently in the machine. Also, it would seem that additional memory would be paged. With the current low cost of RAM, I may try it anyway. The link to the ME defrag routine is dead. I have a ME original install disk, if there is any way to get the routine off that ( I do not want to go to ME as an OS, having had trouble with it before) but if there is a way to extract that routine, it might be worthwhile. Thanks for the help.

    owl
     
  10. the_master_josh

    the_master_josh Specialist

    RAM is pretty cheap. You could try downloading some of the defraggers available on the majorgeeks website
    Diskeeper Lite
    Vopt XP
     
  11. snakefoot

    snakefoot Sergeant Major

  12. suesman

    suesman First Sergeant

    Great site snakefoot. Alot of usefull info there.
     
  13. owl

    owl Private E-2

    Thanks Snake, that solved the problem. You guys are great!

    owl
     

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