Unable to defrag

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Recently, I put 512 mb of dmr ram on my hard drive. But when trying to
defrag, the scanner claims that I only have 12 mb of memory. Presently, I am
unable to defrag, because the scanner claims that my memory is almost used up
(95%).

Please help!
 
There is no such thing as "dmr" RAM - you probably mean DDR.

You are confusing RAM (memory) with hard disk storage space.

You probably have 12 GB - not MB - of free hard disk space. Your computer
could not operate with only 12 MB of free hard disk space.

In order to run disk defragmenter, you need at least 15% of your hard disk
space to be free.

Your solution is to remove things from your hard disk or buy a larger hard
disk. Try running the Disk Cleanup Wizard to free up some disk space.

Ted Zieglar
 
The amount of free space is very important when running Disk Defragmenter. A
minimum of 15% is required but sometimes 20% is desirable if the drive /
partition
contains one or more large files. You can run Disk Defragmenter a second and
third
time if files are still fragmented after the first run. You can put files
more prone to
fragment in their own partitions.

If you use Outlook Express regularly compacting Outlook Express before
running
Disk Defragmenter is helpful.

Disk Defragmenter provides a "Most fragmented files" list. When a fragmented
file is
larger than the largest pocket of free space available then the files is not
fragmented.
Running Disk Defragmenter a second or third time does move files around and
can
reduce / eliminate the contents of the "Most fragmented files" list. The
more free
space on the drive / partition, the more likely it is that all fragments
will be
eliminated.

Free space cannot be defragmented with the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter.
Neither can your pagefile cannot be defragmented because the file is in use
whilst
Disk Defragmenter is running. You can purchase other Defragmenting Utilities
e.g.
Perfect Disk, which will defragment your pagefile and free space. Another
option is to
place your pagefile in it's own partition. A pagefile partition is best
located as the first
partition on a second hard drive. You should leave a small page file at the
original
location.
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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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