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Thread ID: 31357	2003-03-19 09:34:00	Harddrive vs. Win98se	Beef (1415)	Press F1

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129453	2003-03-19 09:34:00	Okay, first off . I noticed that ICQ was playing around that the message boxes wouldn't come up when I clicked on them and I had to minimize whatever was ontop . So i restarted ICQ and it then tried to click on a new message that came and it won't come up, and Winamp was being stupid also . I restarted and then i went to double click my computer and it tells there isn't enough free memory to perform this operation please close (yadadadada) I have been contemplating just lately whether my hdd is failing, there is always lost cluster / files in scandisk and it doesnt always fix them . And then another idea that has believed me to think that it is failing is tht I swear i had about 2gb free and now I have 900 meg free . May be a virus but i dunno . This hdd is about 3 years old . I have 192 megs of ram on win98se with a AMD Duron 900 mhz . Also straight after restart I had 19% free resources (faulty ram maybe?) Any help and prices on 40 gig hdd would be nice .	Beef (1415)
129454	2003-03-19 10:41:00	If you know the brand of your current hard drive, go to their website as they often have downloadable utilities available to check on the health of the drive. Pricespy - Hard drives (www.pricespy.co.nz) for prices.	Jen C (20)
129455	2003-03-19 10:42:00	the problem is not hd or ram. you simply have to many programs running or a single program that is chewing up most of your resources. 19% free after a reboot is not good. check what progs are running in the background and scan with uptodate virus cheaker.	tweak'e (174)
129456	2003-03-19 10:46:00	First of all, the hard drive free space fluctuations are most likely caused by the windows swapfile. This is space reserved on the disk as a cache for when the available memory runs low. Windows is always adjsting the space of this. If you are having trouble accessing files, and lost clusters are always appearing, make sure first of all that you are closing all your programs and shutting down windows properly. Leaving files open and turning off the PC is a great way to manufacture lost clusters and broken/missing files. If you are definately shutting down properly, and you are still having issues with files, make a backup of your important stuff RIGHT NOW!!! as if the drive is going to die, it will do so suddenly... Once you have backed up ALL your important stuff, try to format the drive with the DOS tool "format.com" as this is a pretty intensive task, and will most likely fail if your disk is on the way out. If is it successful, then reinstall windows. If this is also successful, then your drive is most likely fine, as this is also an intensive task. (if you need more help with any of this, just ask) For hard disk (or any PC parts) check http://www.pricespy.co.nz or call your local PC retailer :) PS: if your RAM was faulty, I think you would know about it by now - ie the RAM test at startup may fail sometimes, and (see above) you definately wont be able to reinstall windows with faulty RAM (I have tried, and it doesn't work!! strangely enough, it tells you the CD needs a clean when it stops...) Hope this helps somewhat... Craig.	craig_b (2740)
129457	2003-03-19 11:22:00	OKay, I want to backup my stuff but I don't have a backup prog' for making them to CDs. I am using Norton Anti-Virus (which i hear chews up resources) a lucent winmodem (more chewage) I have 2 partitions. the swap file is on D:/ All my important stuff is too big to put to CD as well.. I might take the computer to the local store to get backup and new HDD if mother is leanant enough.	Beef (1415)
129458	2003-03-19 11:24:00	oh and also i got my 2 free gig back. after a couple of restarts, i think i am shutting down properly. I usually just press shutdown on the case when everything is running (not good me thinks)	Beef (1415)
129459	2003-03-19 11:37:00	> oh and also i got my 2 free gig back. after a couple > of restarts, i think i am shutting down properly. I > usually just press shutdown on the case when > everything is running (not good me thinks) That is where all your problems are your not shutting down correctly! Also run a full scan disk & Disk Defragmenter. Also if you don’t look after your pc then it will not look after you :D e.g. it will not work correctly	stu140103 (137)
129460	2003-03-19 19:50:00	Are there any free programmes allow backups to CD? If so please provide me with some links or the correct PCWorldPlus cd...maybe. ta Yeh i do disk defrag every week and scandisk about every 3 days or so, but usually on standard, i will get around to a full surface scan sometime then disk defrag.	Beef (1415)
129461	2003-03-20 08:09:00	The best app for any sort of backups is nortons Ghost, but whether there is a trial version or some such about I don't know. It is all I will use, so I don't know if there are other competing apps that do the same job...	craig_b (2740)
129462	2003-03-20 08:33:00	yea I have norton ghost full version, came with moboard . Problem is that it doesn't all fit on one disk . Cause i had a 1 gig my documets and another 500 meg folder in desktop I should move all those files for the time being and then backup .	Beef (1415)
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