"Your Computer
Does Not Have Enough Free Memory to Defrag the Drive" Error Message
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If this
article does not describe your hardware-related issue
SYMPTOMS
When you
try to run Disk Defragmenter (Defrag.exe) or ScanDisk
(Scandskw.exe), you may receive one of the following error messages:
Your
computer does not have enough free memory to defrag the drive. Quit one or more
programs.
ID# Defrag009
-or-
ScanDisk could not continue because your computer does
not have enough available memory.
CAUSE
This
problem may occur if either of the following conditions is true:
You are running Windows on a hard disk that is larger than
8 gigabytes (GB) and that has a cluster size that is smaller than 8 kilobytes
(KB).
This configuration may occur if you use a third-party disk tool to create a
partition on a hard disk that is larger than 8 GB and that has a cluster size
that is smaller than 8 KB.
-or-
You are running Windows on a very large hard disk that has
a default Windows cluster size of 32 KB.
RESOLUTION
To resolve these problems, upgrade your Windows operating system to
Microsoft Windows XP or later.
WORKAROUND
To work
around these problems, do one of the following, as appropriate to your
situation:
Contact the manufacturer of the
third-party hard disk tool for information about an update to the software that
resolves this problem.
Repartition your large hard disk into
smaller partitions.
MORE INFORMATION
The standard
FAT32 cluster size of 4,096 bytes applies only to hard disks that are smaller
than 8 GB. The third-party hard disk tool may change the cluster size to 4,096
bytes per allocation unit.
The default cluster sizes are listed in the following table:
|
Hard disk size |
Cluster size |
|
512 MB to 8 GB |
4 KB |
|
8 GB to 16 GB |
8 KB |
|
16 GB to 32 GB |
16 KB |
|
32 GB and larger |
32 KB |
The information in this
article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.1
Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.5
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition