I think his problem is that the swap file is 28 Gigs, "28121MB" i.e. the whole free portion of the hard drive.
I personally haven't had this problem, but my rule with win98 is if it screws up, re-install. It is more cost effective to do that than spend days tinkering. Make sure that you do a complete fdisk on the drive before beginning.
Regards,
David Sloan
IT Manager
Entech Integrated Technologies
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I personally haven't had this problem, but my rule with win98 is if it screws up, re-install. It is more cost effective to do that than spend days tinkering. Make sure that you do a complete fdisk on the drive before beginning.
Regards,
David Sloan
IT Manager
Entech Integrated Technologies
Phone: +61 8 8245 6789
Fax: +61 8 8245 6788
Direct Phone: +61 8 8245 6732
Postal Address: PO Box 1141, Marleston SA 5033
Site Address: 37 Belford Ave, Devon Pk SA 5008
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email: dsloan@...
Web: http://www.entechgroup.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: Troy Funte
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] [OT]Negative free space reported in Win98 after reinstall
If you let Win98 manage the swap file, it will adjust the size dynamically as needed - so no matter what size YOU set it to, if you switch it over the let Win98 manage the size, it will stay at around 30MB or so. You can get some performance boost by setting the swap file to a larger size, and thus Windows uses that size from the start of a windows session and doesn't need to enlarge it later. Of course there is an imaginary limit after which you won't see much improvement with a larger-than-necessary swap file set up. I've heard that having a swap file larger that's twice the size of your RAM isn't going to help you any. Swap files are much slower than RAM, as you probably know. Their main advantage is running applications that you normally COULDN'T run without more memory.
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Carnes
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 5:49 PM
Subject: [Vantage] [OT]Negative free space reported in Win98 after reinstall
Ok I'm stumped and the 'net isn't helping so I figured I'd try you guys.
I just replaced a hard drive in a Dell Dimension with Win 98. When I bring
up the performance tab and click on virtual memory it displays -28121MB
free. I've tried setting a swap file size and then letting 98 manage it.
No luck. It seems to be having some affect on performance. I have well
over 30 gigs free because all that is there is windows. Oh and this is the
2nd install of Windows with FAT32. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Jim Carnes
IS Administrator
Kenlee Precision Corp
jcarnes@...
1700 Morrell Park Ave
Baltimore, MD 21230
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