Greg, I ran benchmarking programs; HD Tach, Sandra Pro, and FreshDiagnose, all were perfect. I reformatted again, same problem. I've never ever had to manually set cluster sizes or anything for a HD for that matter, it's always done by "auto detect HD settings" in the BIOS. I tried a fixed size swap file @ 320mb, same thing. It was formatted using western digital's floppy, LBA is on, 32bit transfers, and FAT 32. I don't see anything in the AMI BIOS about the cluster size used. (Award DOES show cluster size though I THINK). The size of the HD is being shown correctly in 'my computer', 'msinfo', DOS, and everywhere else except of course for the recycle bin (which on EVERY win98 PC I have EVER seen, shows 1.99gb REGARDLESS of the size of the HD!!). On the new format, I installed Sandra Pro again, and it says the cluster size is 16k. Now I've never noticed cluster sizes before on any PC because it's NEVER been an issue before. So, if it must be 4096, then how or why did it get set to 16k? According to the link you sent, it states: "This issue can occur if you are running Windows on a hard disk that is larger than 8 gigabytes (GB) in size and has a cluster size LESS than 8 kilobytes (KB). This configuration may be created if you use a third-party disk tool to create a partition on a hard disk that is larger than 8 (GB) in size and has a cluster size less than 8 KB. " .........so that must not be the problem since it's set to 16k and no 3rd party software was used. ? According to the other text on that page, 16k is correct for a 17.2gb drive:
Hard disk size Cluster size ------------------------------- 16 GB and larger 16 KB >From your other reply: Use chkdsk, to determine cluster size ... http://onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#scandisk I did that, and it shows the cluster size ("allocation units") @ 4096K! So, I don't get it. Why does Sandra Pro state 16k???? I will reformat again using the windows SU disk as it suggests and see what that does. I can't understand though why I have never seen this problem before on 15gb, 18gb, 20gb or 45gb drives. Thanks Greg, -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your cluster size is probably too small. It should be 4096 bytes. M$KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q2291 54 I'm sure there's a dos command to determine what it is, I just can't find anything in my notes. I've got SiSoft Sandra, http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/ If the cluster sizes are too small, a 3rd party tool like Partition Magic can change the cluster size. <perhaps twice posted, forgot to snip crap> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 06:00:14 -0500, "[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, on a new PC for a customer here, I have something >happening I've never seen before. I cannot run scandisk! >when I try to run it, it says "not enough physical memory"!!! >And NOTHING is running in the BG either! I have been >searching for this problem and no surprise, all the links are >bad at that idiot MS website! Using search engines all >I have been able to find that is NOT about "quit programs >running in the background...etc, etc" is for win95 and I >don't understand it: >---------------------- >SYMPTOMS >When you try to run ScanDisk, you may receive the following >error message: > >Your computer does not have enough available memory to run >ScanDisk now. Quit some running programs, then try running >ScanDisk again. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
