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| Thread ID: 22787 | 2002-07-30 09:02:00 | Defrag Problem | Kiwitas (514) | Press F1 |
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| 66758 | 2002-07-30 09:02:00 | I normally defrag once a week but this week can only get to 34% and wont go any further. The hard-drive continues to click away but that is all. Have tried in Safe mode,Power-defrag etc,etc. Have run thorough scandisc,but no errors,surface or otherwise,checked for viruses with AVG and NAV(these are allways running latest updates!Installed and run Swat-it and Pest patrol as Trojan scans and still to no avail! Have W98 on a P11/266mhz CPU with 128mb EDO ram. Any ideas out there please, Kiwitas,:-( |
Kiwitas (514) | ||
| 66759 | 2002-07-30 09:12:00 | >128 EDO ram are u sure? sdram would be more normal. what is the minimum swapfile size? try setting it to 100meg or above. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 66760 | 2002-07-30 10:37:00 | Thank's Tweak'e, The M/board is a T16NFK/KP6 and has 6x 72-pinSimms,so takes a max of 384MB(6 slots are unusual?) Where do I change swapfile size? Cheers,Kiwitas,;-) |
Kiwitas (514) | ||
| 66761 | 2002-07-30 12:35:00 | right click my computer > properties > performance > virtual memory set your own setting a good way to do things is set both the min and the max to the size of your ram, assuming you have the free hard drive space. |
loser (538) | ||
| 66762 | 2002-07-30 23:42:00 | groan....... not the "set virtual memory/swap file to x times ram" again :( just put in a minimum amount. the more ram you have the SMALLER the swap file needs to be. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 66763 | 2002-07-31 03:27:00 | granted, that does seem a reasonable way to look at things... however, hypothetically, say my 256MB of ram was all used up, and I wanted to run a program that wanted like I don't know, 180MB of ram for some out-o- it reason..... wouldn't windows then want a rather largish swap file? I believe there is benefit in that windows does not need to ever resize the swapfile if you set the min and max to the same(?) |
loser (538) | ||
| 66764 | 2002-07-31 03:37:00 | If the disk is too full, defrag can have troubles. That is the most likely cause. You don't need a bigger swap file while doing a defrag. Defrag won't use the swap file. Nothing else should be running. YOU DON"T WANT ANYTHING WRITING TO THE DISK WHILE DEFRAGGING. NOTHING SHOULD DO THAT WHILE DEFRAGGING, EXCEPT DEFRAG. would you like me to emphasize that by shouting? Just my opinion, folks. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 66765 | 2002-07-31 05:33:00 | I agree with graham, try using super rabbit magic set to kill all open apps before de-fragging www.rescueman.cjb.net is my site and you can get it from there Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 66766 | 2002-07-31 10:14:00 | Thanks for help Graham and all but everything Iv'e tried is to no avail? Only thing I am unsure about is every time i uncheck Epson status monitor check in msconfig Startup,when I reboot it is checked again? There is a possiblity that it is running while i am trying to defrag? Cant find where to turn it off? Space shouldn't be my problem as only using 7.2Gb of 18.6Gb(20Gig Hard-drive) Windows is again looking after virtual Mem but after adding another 128 Mb's of ram(now 256Mb)this am,had it set on 150 min with no limit max. That Epson thing doesnt show to be running when I Ctrl/Alt/Del when I start to defrag but it may start sometime during?Is this possible? Cheers,Kiwitas,;-) Still smiling but only just |
Kiwitas (514) | ||
| 66767 | 2002-07-31 11:02:00 | Fast Find (or Find Fast, whatever it is) runs in the background and can be a cause for uncompleted defrags . If you've still got yours you can get rid of it in Control Panel, and deleting it from your Startup folder if it's in there . |
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