> Jerry,
>
> If the drive was partitioned using WD utilities, and all the drives
> are
> 10GB, and scandisk and defrag work -- actually, as Ron said, the
> article
> q229154 may be inapplicable. But (the symptoms say about that
> nevertheless) just in case run (Start -- Run...) Command.com, or Start
> -- Programs -- MS DOS, in the opened DOS window type, followed by
> Enter
> key:
>
> chkdsk c:
>
> and see what it says about the clusters (allocation units) size: for
> 10-GB drives it is 8192 bytes by default.
>
> Then run
> chkdsk d:
>
> and finally --
> chkdsk e:
>
> and see the results as well.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
> Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
> ======
> On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:18:59 +0100, Jerry C.
> Jerry.C..1pgboj@news.win98banter.com wrote:
> -
>
> Mikhail, its a 30G HD split into three 10G partitions. But if i recall
> correctly I didn't use any third party software to partition, just
> what
> came with the Western Digital HD when i put it in. And scandisk and
> defrag work (albeit slowly) in normal windows mode. This is the first
> time i've run into this error. How could i check the cluster size?
>
> Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:-
> Jerry,
>
> I'm sure,
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q229154
> is your case.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
> Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
> ======
>
> On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:15:11 +0100, Jerry C.
> Jerry.C..1p1iby@news.win98banter.com wrote:
> -
>
> I copied the files to a folder on c:. but when i ran setup....same
> msg.
> ,to be exact:
> "Setup does not have enough conventional memory to check your
> computers
> hard disks. You need to free some conventional memory before
> continuing.
>
> For information on freeing conventional memory see SETUP.TXT on setup
> disk or windows 98 cd."
>
> What now? I know I'm nearing scrapping this whole thing but there has
> got to be a way to get this disk to work. It's a legit disk...and i
> already have 98....this should be easy right? simple update
> installation? BTW...as you suggested i was in safe mode, so with only
> essentials running, how could i run on any less memory?
>
> Ben Myers Wrote:-
> If you have plenty of disk space, copy the contents of the upgrade
> CD to the hard drive, then restart the computer from the floppy
> using "...without CD-ROM support" and type "win  /d:m".  Then run
> setup again.
>
> Ben--
> ...--