[Dr.Zer0]

I reinstall windows(98) to try to fix something scandisc found and it dose even worse then ever  
My scandisc sayed it found psycal damage to my c drive and it was on WIN386.SWP
so I thought reinstalling would mov the file, it did and now there are no files on that bad sector, but now it keeps saying its out of memorie on bigger programs(RF,FS,ect) when I know I have enough memorie
Now I think techoligy is begining to hate me  

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[jonskowitz]

Ouchie, good thing for you that harddrives are cheap.

[Dr.Zer0]

I still cant under stand it, it was working just this afternoon, after I was going to right an email everything screwed up and it was almost out of memorie, I managed to get thru it and send the email, I restarted my computer and nothing works anymore

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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" -  untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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[Ryx]

Run scandisk again and set it to automatically repair any damage it finds. It's been a while since i used Win9x, but i think you should be able to move the swap-file (win386.swp) to another partition. Not sure thouhg...

If not, there's always trusty old 'format c:'.

[Dr.Zer0]

 

Originally posted by Ryx:
Run scandisk again and set it to automatically repair any damage it finds. It's been a while since i used Win9x, but i think you should be able to move the swap-file (win386.swp) to another partition. Not sure thouhg...

But I did both of those and it dident do anything
Iv even tried closing all the programs I could so that explorer would be the olny thing running but I still cant get much more running  

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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" -  untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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Ion bars do not imprison me!

[Wildfire]

Right click on "My Computer" and look under I think its called Performance.  See what % of system resources are free.

If you have of programs installed then some of them might have allocated some resources to themselves even when they are not active.

The only thing I can think of is to save any imortant files you can (in DOS if necessay) and format your hard drive and start with a fresh system.

Apart from that the only other thing I can think of is that there is a physical problem with your memory and not just your hard drive.

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[Dr.Zer0]

75%
But I still think its my hard drive, there could be something with some file in windos thats screwed up by this thats causing this

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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" -  untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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Ion bars do not imprison me!

[Wildfire]

Windows isn't the most reliable system.  I format my hard drive every 2 months and try to avoid installing lots or programs.  Keeps my system running at top speed.

Acctually I just had an idea.  Have you heard of a program called First Aid 97?

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[jonskowitz]

Isn't WIN386.SWP a memory management program sort of like EMM386?  

I imagine that if your memory management software was scrood up it might cause massive memory leaks.  

Kazan or Stryke 9 might know more about this...

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[Dr.Zer0]

 

Originally posted by jonskowitz:
Isn't WIN386.SWP a memory management program sort of like EMM386?  

I imagine that if your memory management software was scrood up it might cause massive memory leaks.  

Kazan or Stryke 9 might know more about this...

I reinstalled Windows rember, so WIN386.SWP isent a problem anymore, I fixed that
and I dont know what that program is, what is it like

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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" -  untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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Ion bars do not imprison me!

[jonskowitz]

well, back-up any files you want to keep and drop the atom-bomb (format drive c).

But if there is physical damage to the hard disk I would seriously consider replacing it ASAP.

[Dr.Zer0]

 

Originally posted by jonskowitz:
well, back-up any files you want to keep and drop the atom-bomb (format drive c).

But if there is physical damage to the hard disk I would seriously consider replacing it ASAP.

I'll do that(the replacment part   )

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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" -  untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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Ion bars do not imprison me!

[Styxx]

Win386.swp is the virtual memory swap file. If it's damaged, winblows may not be able to write or read it properly, and then you're out of virtual memory. Try just exiting to DOS, deleting the file and restarting your system, it should work. If not, go to the virtual memory settings on your System screen (it's somewhere in there) and check the max size of the virtual memory - it should be equal or greater than twice the size of your physical memory (RAM).

[wEvil]

why are you running 98 and not 2000 anyway?

if you drive starts developing bad sectors IMMEDIATELY back everything of importance up on floppy or CDR or ZIP and go out and buy a new HDD. cause therres nothing else you can do to save the old one.

Id recommend an IBM deskstar 60gxp or a maxtor diamondmax +60



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[Anduril]

Agreed- it looks like your hardware is hosed. Abandon ship!   Great excuse for a bigger HD...  

[Admiral LSD]

 

Originally posted by wEvil:
why are you running 98 and not XP anyway?

 


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[Dr.Zer0]

 

Originally posted by wEvil:
why are you running 98 and not 2000 anyway?

if you drive starts developing bad sectors IMMEDIATELY back everything of importance up on floppy or CDR or ZIP and go out and buy a new HDD. cause therres nothing else you can do to save the old one.

Id recommend an IBM deskstar 60gxp or a maxtor diamondmax +60

*Opens up Network Neighborhood and starts moving all my important files onto that computer* atleast I olny put programs 'other' programs on there and not anything like games or personal files(I dont like to waist my disc space that way   )

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Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes):
My powerful brain in unraveling the myseries of the universe.
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Head Campaign Manager in Knossos Campaign
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"You have been overloaded with knowlage my young friend" -  untouchable
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"When you mess with a doctor, you mess with dark powers" - The Brak show
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Ion bars do not imprison me!

[Kazan]

 

Originally posted by jonskowitz:
Isn't WIN386.SWP a memory management program sort of like EMM386?  

I imagine that if your memory management software was scrood up it might cause massive memory leaks.  

Kazan or Stryke 9 might know more about this...

WIN386.SWP is your virtual memory swap page

[Kazan]

 

Originally posted by Admiral LSD:
why are you running 98 and not XP anyway?

because he knows better than to run Windows eXtra Proprietary and further get locked into the M$ monopoly

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Kazan:
because he knows better than to run Windows eXtra Proprietary and further get locked into the M$ monopoly

oh yeah, coz Win98 is not a MS prog, now?
If he uses win98, he won't buy another OS, so that makes no difference.
anyway, back to topic:
I'm sorry for you doc