I need a boot floppy for a computer in which I just replaced the hard drive. I tried booting up with generic boot floppies downloaded from the internet but they didn't work. If anyone has a boot floppy specifically for the HP Pavilion, I would be happy to pay for same. Please advise.

I had to replace my defective hard drive. I installed one that had been wiped clean by the previous user. As a result, when I attempted to use my HP Recovery CD, it produced the C: prompt but indicated that it was unable to detect a hard drive. I assume that means that the hard drive has to be...

I recently copied some files from my old Win98 PC onto a my new WinXP PC, but I cannot open any of the files (doc/jpg/txt etc.) it just says 'Invalid file format' or 'file not recognized'. I've tried copying via floppy, mem stick, and putting the drive as a slave in my new pc, but nothing works!...

My system is running Windows 98 SE. After the PM7 window opens, I get the error (for disk #1): Error 116 - Partition table Begin and Start inconsistent I'd like to backup partitions on disk #1 but PM7 won't allow it so long as it thinks there are errors. Despite the error from PM7, my system...

I just replaced my notebook HDD (Fujitsu - MHK2120AT) with a new HDD (Seagate - ST96023A). But now, I am hearing a slight "clink" sound on shutdown. Is this normal?

The 2.5" ATA-5 4200 RPM Fujitsu HDD (model MHK2120AT) in my Dell Latitude CPX laptop gets noisy sometimes and makes me nervous. It's about time to replace it before it dies. Any recommendations of a good yet reasonably priced 2.5" ATA-5 4200 RPM HDD?

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. When I try to copy a partition, I get the following error message: "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode." This error message occurs when PM8 goes into

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. When I try to copy a partition to a new 120 GB HDD (Seagate ST3120026A), I get the following error message: "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode."

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with...

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How can be formatted an added external USB Hard Drive on a PC with WIN 98SE system? In 98SE at the DOS/fdisk command menu there is no option to switch to Drive 2 to start the formatting procedure. Must the new hard drive be formatted before installing the USB2.0\WIN 98 Disk Driver software on the...

Dear sirs, I am the owner of a windows 98se machine.due to the amount of files stored,my computer has become very slow.whenever i try to run disk defragmenter after going for about 10% it gets back to 0% and shows 'drives contents changed:retarting'.this happens a number of times and goes on for...

Conceptronic's PCI-IDE card ("csatacombo") does not support disk-standby. Is there a way to force a disk into standby programmatically? Adrian.

hi all, I sucessfully ran a backup and then I ran a differential BU to BU only changed files. This prompted the question "do you wish to overwrite dataset?" or similar. I have now come to restore the files only to find ONLY the new files listed. Although the .QIC file is still big (~1.6GB) and...

Two Mircsosoft virtual drivers -- netbeui.vxd and wsipx.vxd are installed on my hard drive. Someone in the building is using NetBIOs to hack into my computers' network. My firewall (eTrust Firewall) caught it and all I had to do was check "YES" to prevent future attempts. However, these files are...

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I am unable to use open application without this error on a blue screen. 0028:C183A9E0 in Voltrack (04) + in 00000430

Does anyone have the fix? I can surf the web all day but I cannot open any application without the Blue screen error... 0028:C183A9E0 in Voltrack (04)+ 00000430

Any lead would help.

Hi, "*.RBO" is known as a worm extension. When I type in "*.RBO" to find files with this extension I get no files found eventhough there are many files with that extension. Thanks AJS