scandisk replacement

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A friend of mine has an 80 gig hard drive in one partition and 240 megs
of ram. He uses Windows 98 SE and he can not run scandisk because it
says he does not have enough memory. Is there a replacement for
scandisk that will work under these circumstances? Thank you in advance
for all replies.
 
Daniel said:
A friend of mine has an 80 gig hard drive in one partition and 240 megs
of ram. He uses Windows 98 SE and he can not run scandisk because it
says he does not have enough memory. Is there a replacement for
scandisk that will work under these circumstances? Thank you in advance
for all replies.
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He probably has 50 applications running in the system tray.

Tell him to reboot to safe mode and run it with just explorer loaded.
For that matter I'll bet he's never run defrag either. Tell him
to do THAT from safe mode as well.

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Son said:
He probably has 50 applications running in the system tray.

Tell him to reboot to safe mode and run it with just explorer loaded.
For that matter I'll bet he's never run defrag either. Tell him
to do THAT from safe mode as well.
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I used to have this same problem, and nothing anyone ever suggested was
able to help. I finally stumbled across the reason, and the solution.

Basically, the cluster size on the hard drive is too small, and there
are therefore too many clusters on the drive for Windows to handle.
Typically, this occurs when you clone a smaller drive to a larger drive,
and the larger drive "inherits" the smaller drive's cluster size. I
think an 80G drive needs to have a cluster size of 32k for scandisk and
defrag to work, but this is only from memory.

The original poster needs to buy or find a utility (like Partition
Magic) that will allow him to increase the cluster size and therefore
reduce the number of clusters, and that will fix all his problems. I'm
quite confident that this is the problem, not an actual lack of memory.

Peter
 
A friend of mine has an 80 gig hard drive in one partition and 240 megs
of ram. He uses Windows 98 SE and he can not run scandisk because it
says he does not have enough memory. Is there a replacement for
scandisk that will work under these circumstances? Thank you in advance
for all replies.
Click to expand...

Any chances that he/she try to limit the Windows' Virtual Memory?
If yes, ask him/her not to do that.
 
I used to have this same problem, and nothing anyone ever suggested was
able to help. I finally stumbled across the reason, and the solution.
Click to expand...
Basically, the cluster size on the hard drive is too small, and there
are therefore too many clusters on the drive for Windows to handle.
Typically, this occurs when you clone a smaller drive to a larger drive,
and the larger drive "inherits" the smaller drive's cluster size. I
think an 80G drive needs to have a cluster size of 32k for scandisk and
defrag to work, but this is only from memory.
Click to expand...
The original poster needs to buy or find a utility (like Partition
Magic) that will allow him to increase the cluster size and therefore
reduce the number of clusters, and that will fix all his problems. I'm
quite confident that this is the problem, not an actual lack of memory.
Click to expand...

There is not enough space to hold this many addresses. Windows does
come with a drive converter. It is under Programs/Acessories/System
Tools.

It is possible the bios is the snag. It also must be able to address
that many addresses. Converting to FAT 32 might solve the problem for
both.

A bios update might be necessary to support 80 gigs. I dunno. Check
with the bios companys page.
 
There is not enough space to hold this many addresses. Windows does
come with a drive converter. It is under Programs/Acessories/System
Tools.
Click to expand...
It is possible the bios is the snag. It also must be able to address
that many addresses. Converting to FAT 32 might solve the problem for
both.
Click to expand...
A bios update might be necessary to support 80 gigs. I dunno. Check
with the bios companys page.
Click to expand...

This might help too :

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q263044


Regards, John.

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A friend of mine has an 80 gig hard drive in one partition and 240
megs
restart into safe mode and run scan disk from there. I had a simmilar
problem, and it was because of all the stuff I had running from start up. I
didn't have heavy mem users going, just the stuff that goes with my hardware
(vid card, mouse, kbd utility, etc) but with only 256 meg mem (how did he
get 240, btw? is it shared with the video?) that was all it took.
plus, it's better to run the scan and defrag from safe mode anyway, neither
will be interrupted while they are running and will actually finish.
Safe Mode: boot computer, at the beep (end of POST) hit either F5 (direct
to safe mode) or f8 (boot menu). if you don't have a beep, you can just tap
the f5 key at 1 sec intervals and it will catch it at the right point.
the best thing to do is to partition the drive before setting up everything.
My brother insists on leaving his drives (40g one time and 80g the other) as
one partition, then he can't back anything up, and constantly complains to
me that it takes for-ever to scan or defrag them, and when the system
crashes, he loses EVERYTHING. I tried to explain why this wasn't a good
idea, but.....some people just insist on having one big place instead of
several smaller ones.
another benefit to using partitions in Win 98, you can create a 1-2g
partition, and then assign the swap file to use that partition, rather than
a portion of C:. this gives you a set amount of space (assuming you don't
install anything on it), and you aren't as hardup when running larger
programs.
I hope this helps.
 
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