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I have a self built computer with 320 megs of ram that is running windows 98
Second edition. The computer usually is running microsoft excel, a few dos
applications and the microsoft card file appliation (for client contact info
such as a name, address, phone number, etc.). Anyways with all of these
applications open, the computer runs very slow and the system does not
respond at all well.
If I close or switch from microsoft excel to my dos applications that are
open (usually two of them at a time) the screen disappears a piece at a time.
I have used the defrag program on all of the drives that this appears to
improve the performance of the system for a period of time.
The other day, I had one of my two dos applications open and I tried to
defrag the hard drive like I usually do (I realize that I should close down
all applications when defraging, but I needed to do a quick defrag) and the
defrag process could not be completed as I was told I did not have enough
memory to complete this task. I only had the one dos application open and
the defrag was waiting to go.
In case it makes a difference, I am using a 19 gig hard drive that is
partitioned into three parts (two 8 gig partitions and one 2 gig partition).
Thus I have a c, d and e drive. I am using an ATI AGP video card (ati xpert
98 video card set to 2X for the AGP setting).
What can I do to solve this problem? I have heard that a hard drive that is
using 8kb clusters for a hard drive that is 19 gigs or more, can cause memory
problems, but the partitions are setup so that they are configured to use 8kb
clusters. If I try and set the drive back to a single partition and then use
say 32kb clusters, would this help?
The one problem I fear about this approach is that the system may not
support a c drive that is greater than 8 to 10 gigs, as I have had a problem
setting up a system that had a large hard drive in it running windows 98
(standard editon, not second edition) and on that machine, I could not use
partition magic to move the c drive beyond the 8 gig limit, even though I had
lots of free space that would move the drive past the 8 gig limit, as
partition magic said that windows 98 that I was using at the time limits the
hard drive space for your c drive.
If anyone can suggest what else I can do to solve this lact of memory, I
would appreciate it.
Edward Letendre.
I have a self built computer with 320 megs of ram that is running windows 98
Second edition. The computer usually is running microsoft excel, a few dos
applications and the microsoft card file appliation (for client contact info
such as a name, address, phone number, etc.). Anyways with all of these
applications open, the computer runs very slow and the system does not
respond at all well.
If I close or switch from microsoft excel to my dos applications that are
open (usually two of them at a time) the screen disappears a piece at a time.
I have used the defrag program on all of the drives that this appears to
improve the performance of the system for a period of time.
The other day, I had one of my two dos applications open and I tried to
defrag the hard drive like I usually do (I realize that I should close down
all applications when defraging, but I needed to do a quick defrag) and the
defrag process could not be completed as I was told I did not have enough
memory to complete this task. I only had the one dos application open and
the defrag was waiting to go.
In case it makes a difference, I am using a 19 gig hard drive that is
partitioned into three parts (two 8 gig partitions and one 2 gig partition).
Thus I have a c, d and e drive. I am using an ATI AGP video card (ati xpert
98 video card set to 2X for the AGP setting).
What can I do to solve this problem? I have heard that a hard drive that is
using 8kb clusters for a hard drive that is 19 gigs or more, can cause memory
problems, but the partitions are setup so that they are configured to use 8kb
clusters. If I try and set the drive back to a single partition and then use
say 32kb clusters, would this help?
The one problem I fear about this approach is that the system may not
support a c drive that is greater than 8 to 10 gigs, as I have had a problem
setting up a system that had a large hard drive in it running windows 98
(standard editon, not second edition) and on that machine, I could not use
partition magic to move the c drive beyond the 8 gig limit, even though I had
lots of free space that would move the drive past the 8 gig limit, as
partition magic said that windows 98 that I was using at the time limits the
hard drive space for your c drive.
If anyone can suggest what else I can do to solve this lact of memory, I
would appreciate it.
Edward Letendre.
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