"System Out of Memory " - but is it really...? 2004-02-05 - By Kris
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At 03:44 PM 01-02-2004, DRxDON wrote:
>Hi Kris and Owen,
>
>I'm not sure I know what you guys are talking about! :-)
>
>I have a system that is about two years old; Asus MB with built-in
>Ultra DMA 100 and a 40GB Maxtor HD. I installed a dual boot system
>using Win2K and Win98 on two separate partitions and had no problems
>at all!
My system sounds very similar - the HD is driven by one of the 133 Ultra
drivers.
>you have to have either two separate disks or two partitions
>on the same disk, one for each system. Also, you have to start with
>a "clean" newly formatted disk and install Win2K first and then
>install Win98. Too bad if you already have a single disk with Win98
>and a lot of programs. If you want to save your Win98 system, you'll
>HAVE to get another disk. :-(
That's what I suspected. Well, it might be a good idea anyway. In fact,
if I can get a new system this year, what I'd like to do is go ahead and
get 2 HDs: one for the system/OS and programs, and the other for data.
Thanks for the various tips :)
If I can't get a new system, trhen I would like to get another HD and put
the system/OS onto it, saving the current HD for programs and data.
Basically, I'd like to have the separate drive for the OS so that I can
"freeze" as many of the files as is possible; on this computer, I already
have all the Internet Explorer junk, the Swap file, and a few other tidbits
go to a non-Windows directory on a separate virtual drive, becuase I got
tired of having the OS going wonky because the W98 directory kept getting
fragmented by all the temporary/IE/etc. garbage.
One thing I'll never understand is, Why does Windows use defaults that
fragment and screw up its own directories and therefore operating
files...? It seems to me to be just plain stupid - *esp.* since my system
became so much mroe stable once I redirected all of the temporary/etc.
stuff out of the W98 OS directory. There is still some stuff I haven't yet
figured out how to redirect, but it's pretty minimal at this point and W98
has, as I mentioned, *finally* (after much "sturm und drang"!) becaome
reasonably stable. Before that, I was reinstalling W98 every other month.
At any rate, that is why I think it's good to have the OS on its own HD -
*and* reconfigure as much as possible so that any files/dierctories that
get regularly re-written go to at least a separate directory, and
preferably to a separate HD or at least virtual drive.
- Kris
- Kris M. Krieger
http://www.pterochromics.com
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