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Insufficient free memory to run defrag
Name: Alvin First Date: May 17, 2000 at 15:23:39 Pacific
Comment:
I am running Windows 98SE. I have 128MB of RAM. When I try to run Defrag, I get a message stating I do not have enough free memory to defragment this drive. (I also tryed to run Norton Utilities Speed Disk but it also did not run.)Could it be a corrupted defrag file or a bad memory chip? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Not sure if it will help, but I have the same setup and had the same problem, what I did was ended every task (pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE and "end task") on everything but explorer, ran defrag and it worked and for some reason I haven't had a problem since, go figure...
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