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DRIVER 137 GO MS-DOS by PIERRE
i search a driver add-on for 48 BIT LBA but DOS Pierre
December 7th 05 07:55 AM
by PIERRE Go to last post
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Scheduled defrag? by Paul D.Smith
Anyone suggest a method to perform a scheduled defrag. of the hard drive on a Win98 machine? Ideally this should so the following... - At a predetermined time (for example 22:00 every Friday)... - Start from a machine where Win98 is running but of otherwise unknown status - Close all...
December 6th 05 06:58 PM
by AlmostBob Go to last post
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Error-Unable to write to disk in drive C by Joe T
I have read earlier posts with replies but doesn't seem to help me here. No new programs have been installed to cause this I feel. Just started happening!! System is as follows----Win98se, WD Caviar 120GB, 512 ram, 1.44gig speed. I have been a receiving a blue screen- "Unable to write to disk in...
December 6th 05 06:06 PM
by Zippy Go to last post
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Copying data to CD-RW by Mark Creasey
Hi, I have an ICE-CD R/RW 8x4x32 drive and I've just bought a box of Verbatim Hi-Speed CD-RW disks (8x-12x). Every time I try to write to one of them (using drag & drop in Explorer I get the messages: "Cannot Copy - Access is Denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the...
December 6th 05 10:06 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Draft by Ron Badour
Here is a draft--feel free to edit/delete Hi Mark, I have contacted all of my family members and everyone wants to go to court. My cousin Linda Jones will file suit to (at a minimum) get rid of the Feb 05 Will. We also want to explore some ideas about the Sugg St property and perhaps the Dec 04...
December 4th 05 07:55 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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zeroing empty space on a drivespace'd drive! by [email protected]
Hello, Can someone please help.... Slightly mad question he Is there a way of getting drive image to *not* compress a file of a given name so that this file can be zeroed and the deleted prior to imaging the drive? Background:-
December 3rd 05 06:26 AM
by Jay Go to last post
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What is max external USB/Firewire HD size can add to WIN98 laptop by gramsay
Hello, I have a Gateway Solo 9300 CX with 12GB internal HD and would like to extend its life before spending hundreds on a newer system before VISTA comes out. I need as big an external HD I can get. USB or Firewire. Is there/What is limit for Windows 98 ?? Gateway tech support said 80GB and...
November 28th 05 11:10 AM
by Jonny Go to last post
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Win98 DOS defrag by Jonno
Is it possible to boot a Win98 box with the Win98 (floppy) Boot Disk and run the defrag command from there? Whenever I try this I get a message like "bad command" or "you must run this command from Windows". Alternatively, is it possible to run Windows (temporarily) from an external drive so that...
November 28th 05 09:54 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Windows Does Not See Full Drive by Tom Lisk
I've installed a 120 gig Seagate drive into an older HP computer. I partitioned the drive as follows: c: 16 gig primary - active d: 25 gig logical e: 25 gig f: 25 gig g: 24 gig I can run a chkdsk and a scandsk on all of these in DOS. Windows 98,
November 26th 05 10:34 PM
by Tom Lisk Go to last post
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Windows 98SE on MSI K8N Neo Platinum by TonyK
After horrendous problems with BSODs and other problems I decided to instal W98 Second Edition on a fresh partition so that I could get to my XP PRO system to copy it (doesn't work as W98 doesn't recognise NTFS). (I will probably get round this with Partition Magic recovery disks). However among...
November 26th 05 07:49 PM
by ernie Go to last post
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How to recover remotely deleted file ? by Gangadharan
I remotely connected to a machine on my network. I deleted a file and then went to see if I could locate it in either the remote machine's or my recycle bin, but could not. Is there a way to recover this deleted file?
November 25th 05 03:03 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
3 1,330
Explorer.exe error by sheppardwk
Recently, my 350 MHz AMD K-6 3D Now 2 computer using Win 98 SE has been acting very slow – the mouse hesitates and it takes a few moments to load programs. I have an older computer with 256 RAM and a relatively new (less than a year) Maxtor 40 Gb hard drive (using only 8 Gb) and under System,...
November 21st 05 10:16 PM
by sheppardwk Go to last post
0 1,232
JPG/BMP/ETC Defaults? by Veritas
I had to download software for a digital camera, but it killed almost ALL my image settings and switched it to that of the camera (which was really annoying because the icons were ALL THE SAME), so I uninstalled the camera to see if the defaults would come back, and they didn't, now I just can't...
November 13th 05 04:39 AM
by AlmostBob Go to last post
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$$$$$make tons of cash EASY$$$$$ by [email protected]
What is $5 and 15 minutes when it can make you earn $100,000 ? Not much, if you ask me... You've probably seen a lot of those kind of messages over forums and newsgroups, and the explanation for this can be given in two words: IT WORKS! But how on earth, will you ask me, does it actually works?...
November 9th 05 10:11 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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error coping files to 30 pin floppy drive by deltabob
Someone gave me their old computer with win98 on it. The "A" drive was physically destroyed (he said a floppy got stuck in it). The "A" drive came with a 40 pin connector (optioned as a slave with the hdrive the master). Not able to find a 40 pin drive I found a couple 30 pin drives at a local swap...
November 9th 05 03:44 AM
by deltabob Go to last post
5 1,461
USB Hard Drive Installation causes Win98SE to crash by Mike Andrews
Hi I've just bought a Freecom Classic 160Gb USB hard drive for my Win98SE system, and I can't get it to install. When I plug in the USB cable, the system recognises new hardware and asks for drivers. This is expected behaviour according to the manual. When I install the drivers from the supplied...
November 8th 05 07:51 PM
by Mike Andrews Go to last post
4 1,664
Computer freezing up by Ron T.
I have Windows 98E and Office 97. My computer frequently freezes in all programs as well as email and IE. I have run scan disk numerous times and that straightens it out for a while, but then it starts all over again. Even the shut down program freezes. I have to manually turn it off and have...
November 8th 05 01:33 AM
by Touch Base Go to last post
2 1,044
file-new by lendapilot
I lost the ability to pull down new from file in the explore or mycomputer. What can I do? Thanks.
November 1st 05 07:11 AM
by lendapilot Go to last post
2 1,094
can't open .txt file from Windows Explorer by jms
When I click on any .txt file in Explorer I get error message: C:\My Cannot find this file Please verify that the correct path and filename are given The C:\My is supposed to be C:\My Documents\File folder\file.txt. If this is the problem how can I change the C:\My to C:\My Documents? In...
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October 25th 05 03:30 AM
by jms Go to last post
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Noise from Hard Disk Drive by Brad
Hi, My "main" computer is a Gateway "Color Book II" laptop. It is on every day from 7:30AM until almost 6:00PM. I have been using it like this for about 7 years. It has a 1.6 GB hdd. Recently, for the first time, the hdd started to "wine" (high pitched) for about 3 minutes. Then it became...
October 7th 05 12:58 PM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
2 1,002
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