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Windows 98 large file-count tests on large volume (500 gb harddrive)
Franc Zabkar wrote:
Is this it? Negative Hard Disk Free Size Reported on Virtual Memory Tab in System Properties: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272620 As reported he http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272620 I obtained the updated file from the win-98 service-pack thing (unpacked it manually) and replaced my existing sysdm.cpl. While it did correct the display of a negative free size on the hard drive, it did not solve the virtual memory issue. I then connected another SATA drive to the system (160 gb, with a single 25 gb FAT-32 partition, formatted with 4 kb clusters, a little over 6 million clusters) and Win-98 DID enable virtual memory when instructed to put the swap file on the new drive. So for some reason win-98 did not want to locate the swap file on the 500 gb drive. Either it did not like the fact that the drive was formatted with 4kb cluster size (resulting in 121 million clusters) or it didn't like where on the drive it would have to put it (at the back 10% of the drive). Also - I increased the amount of installed memory to 1 gb, and still got "insufficient memory" when running Windows Scandisk and Defrag on the 500 gb drive. DOS scandisk does not give an error, but it would have taken 4 days to run (given it was at the 30% point after 30 hours). |
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