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Thread ID: 50030	2004-10-08 04:01:00	Defragging	Poppa John (284)	Press F1

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279175	2004-10-11 05:20:00	Problem still the same, will not defrag in safe mode either. Also tried scandisk & got the same error message "not enough memory". What now folks. PJ	Poppa John (284)
279176	2004-10-11 05:46:00	Can you please confirm if you have successfully defragged the system - ever - since the HDD was last reformatted? As per my last post above? To repeat: This problem can happen when the hard drive is larger than 8GB and has a cluster size smaller than 8 KB . Thats to do with the way it was originally setup if this is the case, and without losing all the data and reformatting not much you can do . If this has just "suddenly" become a problem, we need to look further . If its possibly always been the case, then you cannot fix it without losing all the data and reformatting, setting the cluster size when its being set up again .	godfather (25)
279177	2004-10-11 06:28:00	GF..... We do not remember EVER doing a defrag since we bought the Dell 2nd hand & having w98se installed, about 18months ago. I suspect we have tried but didn't persevere. At that time we replaced its existing HDD for the 20/16GB HDD in it now, this was re formatted at the time. PJ	Poppa John (284)
279178	2004-10-11 08:29:00	In that case forget about defragging unless you want to do a complete reformat and reinstall, and start from scratch. Setting up the HDD parameters differently. If it's not broken, don't fix it I guess.	godfather (25)
279179	2004-10-11 08:43:00	gf Will leave well alone, as you suggest. Thanks everyone. It was an interesting exercise and worth a try. PJ :D	Poppa John (284)
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