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From: antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Sandy Antunes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: BAD help!
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Date: 31 Jul 90 22:28:26 GMT
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Hi!  Having used the full version (i.e. paidware) of BAD (an excellent
disk optimizer, btw), I have run into a problem.
I recently restructured and reformatted my hard drive.  It now has two
20 meg partitions on it.
BAD, according to the docs, requires at least 470K of free ram in order
to format either of them.  So I made a disk that boots up and only
uses the binddrivers, mount, and defdisk commands.  It mounts dh1:,
makes it the new main partition, then lets me mount either of the two
20 meg partitions.
However, it can't optimize them because it says I don't have enough ram.
Somehow, I am skeptical... I should have ram to burn.
It requires the ram to be contiguous, however, which is where I suspect
the problem.
I tried using FastMemFirst, but that didn't help.  So I tried not using
it, and that didn't work.
So, question:
    How can I force the system to free a 470K contiguous chunk of ram that
    BAD will then read so I can optimize my hard drive????????
(I'm not even sure if BAD looks to see if the mem is cont. or just grabs
 fragments, actually)

So, help please!                         sandy
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Sandy Antunes                                antunes@ASTROD.psu.edu   
"Then we'll be off.  But remember, chaps, this is not just a matter of
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