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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup? by
DJW
I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power
cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I
got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the
hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things
would straighten out. In my...
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DOS boot (f8) by
[email protected]
When this particular machine boots, hitting f8 gets you the
menu that lets you go into pure DOS.
Isn't there some binary .sys file you replace with a text version in
order to get this startup menu automatically?
- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus,...
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need help please!!!! on win 98 himem.sys is missing by
[email protected]
My computer shut down on me last night in the middle of recording (i
use cakewalk 9). I tried starting it back up and got this message
error occured himem.sys is missing
after loading the recover cd, i was able to start back up in safe mode.
Luckily my wav files were not missing. The only...
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Changing all the names on an old second-hand laptop by
SlickRCBD[_3_]
Is there a list somewhere of registry entries for owner's names? I am
using an OLD laptop to run Microsoft Word 97 in night school until
they can fix the scheduling screw-up and put us in a lab. This laptop
was given to me over 5 years ago by my mother's cousin when she
upgraded. I changed the...
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set up problem with cd/dvd drive by
dilbert firestorm
i have a plextor Px716A cd/dvd drive. I'm having problems with the
initial setup install for win98se.
the installation of win98se was supposed to be installed to a scsi hard
drive (C:), however, computer isn't seeing the Plextor drive as E:. so,
I can't get the install going. it worked fine...
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Computer Died - Windows is a Gonner - HELP by
tallbarb
I have an old Compaq Presario PC with Win 98 installed and it just stopped
allowing Windows to run. I've got a Win98 boot disk with CD-ROM support and
the Win98 CD that came with the PC and I can boot with it just fine to a DOS
prompt. but when I try to run SETUP from the CD, it keeps telling me...
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External USB Hard Drive & Windows 98SE by
Fred
I just bought an Iomega external hard drive and danged if I
can't get it to work. I followed the instructions to the
letter, which weren't much -- "Put in the CD. Run
start.exe. Reboot. Plug in the AC to the drive. Connect the
USB cable to the computer." Hit don't work.
The USB is from a card. ...
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June 26th 05 07:30 PM
by Fred
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Upgrade to SE by
Silver Surfer
Pardon my ignorance on this subject, but I would like to know where to
acquire the SE upgrade for W98 presently installed on a laptop my daughter
gave me.
Have stumbled around all over the MS web site but came up empty. Perhaps
you can steer me in the right direction?
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How can I find out why COMM2 port shows invalid or busy by
DJW
My ESS modem reports that the port is busy. How can I find out why? I
formatted the hard drive on my Winbook laptop and started to do a
clean install of win 98SE. I have a combination M2EM PCI (Maestro)
sound card / modem made by ESS. I followed the Winbook's instructions
to get the sound card and...
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Exit stalls by
Tom Duprex
I am running on Windows98 second edition. When in DOS if I type the
command Exit to go back to Windows, the system stalls. I then do alt,
ctrl, del, which gets me up on Windows. I am not experiencing any other
troubles; it is just that this use to work and it doesn't. I get to DOS
by doing...
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Desktop layout backup? by
Joseph
Is there a way to backup the desktop layout. I get a lot of crashes lately
and often the desktop icons come up all squashed to one side. I tried to
find a file that has those settings, but no luck. I think now that it is
integrated into the swap file...
Any advise will be...
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CD ROM not accessible by
glee
(cross-posting to unrelated groups reduced)
Does it give this error no matter what disc you try in the drive?
Have you tried an audio CD in the drive....will it play?
Boot up with a startup floppy disk with CD-ROM support, note the drive letter it
assigns to the CD drive, and try doing a DIR...
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January 31st 06 08:34 PM
by PCR
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win 98 won't boot by
Debbie
After I reformatted win 98, it will only start up with the aid of reinstall
disc. IT goes through the start up page, I can access the setup page, then
just get white blinking cursor. Waht am i dong wrong?
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Debbie
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installing windows by
b21playa
Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get
"Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender"
Ive reset the CMOS, changed ram, CPU, hdd and still nothing
ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference
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Win 98 Setup problem by
Paola
I install win 98 from scratch but when windows is doing the personal setting
when the wizard reads "Default Channel Setup" the system just shutdown. Can I
have any suggestions? Thanks in advance
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Pao Pao
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BIOS problem by
Brian Gotjunk
I am going to ask this question, and then duck so that I don't get hit by
all the stuff that is about to be thrown at me.
Machine specs - Gateway 1ghz - Win98SE
I was updating my BIOS and did a Ctrl-Break in the middle of the update (hey
that old shoe just missed me)
I know, I know STUPID - but...
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Need help after installing new hard drive by
HJobe71h
I just recently put a brand new 40gb hard drive into a relatives computer. Everything seems to be installed correctly but I am having a problem installing windows onto that new hard drive. I hope someone out there can help me. First of all, I can't open the CDROM drive (either one, even have an...
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restoring dual boot function after repartiition by
dadswaug
i have (had) a dual boot option (1-XP Pro;2-W98)working fine until i adjusted
the partition size of the second (W98SE). Now when i start, selecting W98
provides a non-system disc error.
Having done this once before, reinstalling W98 over wrote the XP startup and
i lost all data, settings, emails,...
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can't install os by
pamela
I still can't install an os. I still get the message
that this computer doesn't have enough extended memory. I
have tried the suggestion that Bill gave but it didn't
work. I would really appreciate some help on this
matter.
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June 3rd 04 05:18 PM
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