Scan Disk problem: Not enough memory to run

Question

I have a Dell Dimension with 256 Mb RAM and a 24Gb hard drive with about 18mb free. When I try to run Scan Disk, I get a message stating that I do not have enough memory to run Scan Disk at this time. I haven't had any other major memory problems, with one exception (trying to save a HUGE animaiton file while other programs, etc. were running.)

Can anyone tell me how I could resolve this? I tried rebooting with minimal programs running and still get the error with Scan Disk.
Thanks.

M Currie · Answer

Assuming it's 18 gig rather than Meg, it might be a problem with DOS memory. If you're getting the message when you run scandisk at boot time, Try first bypassing config.sys and autoexec.bat when you boot.

Thereal-dbk4297 · Answer

jcmac126 wrote:
- I have a Dell Dimension with 256 Mb RAM and a 24Gb
- hard drive with about 18mb free. When I try to run
- Scan Disk, I get a message stating that I do not
- have enough memory to run Scan Disk at this time. I
- haven't had any other major memory problems, with
- one exception (trying to save a HUGE animaiton file
- while other programs, etc. were running.)
-
- Can anyone tell me how I could resolve this? I
- tried rebooting with minimal programs running and
- still get the error with Scan Disk.
- Thanks.

Hi,

18MB free on a 24GB hard drive?

If the above is true, that is your problem. The hard drive needs room to copy files so that it can move them. If you have no free space on the drive, Windows will 'try' and use RAM. You don't have the RAM to do the storage job that the hard drive should do.

Mis Dos Centavos,
Darrell

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