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Does a drive have open files ?? by Lil' Dave
If windows is open, the partition it resides in has open system files sourced from the hard drive at boot time. Generally speaking, these reside in memory until windows finishes shutdown. wrote in message ... ...
October 7th 05 12:49 PM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
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Hard Drive Copying by tam999
My Windows 98 computer (from 1999) came with a 7.85 GB Hard drive. When I filled it (2003) I added an 80 GB drive. I moved everything I could from the original C: drive to the new D: drive and while not perfect, everything worked. I recently upgraded Norton Anti-Virus and the new program filled...
October 5th 05 01:23 AM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
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Floppy runs continuously when Retrospect Express is open by Ron Estes
No other problems with computer. TIA
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September 27th 05 02:24 AM
by Ron Estes Go to last post
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Exception OE has occured..:( by odminc
I am running Windows 98 with 128Meg Ram. The error I get is AN EXCEPTION OE HAS OCCURRED AT 0028:00000017 IN VxD. THIS WAS CALLED FROM 0028:C182DD58 IN VxD SCSI1HLP(03) + 00000508. I have reformmated my pc, rebooted by limitting the drivers being installed. This started occuring once i installed...
September 27th 05 12:45 AM
by glee Go to last post
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Disk controller not loading, hard drive not seen by PeteV
Hi! Please, if there is anyone familiar with this problem ... I do have IBM ThinkPad 570/Win98SE with Intel 440 chipset, and now after a Windows repair "re-upgrade" round I have lost the Generic Disk Drive entry from the Device Manager due to the IDE Controller loading problem. I have already...
September 27th 05 12:45 AM
by PeteV Go to last post
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USP problem (NTKERN.VXD) by Sean
Hi there, I was wondering if someone could help me. I have been using a HyunWon DAH-1100 MP3 Player for over a year now. But now its encountered a problem, it won't connect to my PC properly through the USP, it doesn't seem to be detected properly. I checked the device manager and it had a...
September 23rd 05 11:23 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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rawritent.exe ? by
Hi, does anyone know why rawritent.exe http://search.mirrorservice.org/search/?q=rawrite will only accept removable media ? Is there anything that would break this algorithm for fixed disks?
September 15th 05 05:56 PM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Device Manager problem by cpojano
Under "other devices" I have a question mark. It shows also PCI CARD and PC MASS STORAGE CONTROLLER with a yellow question mark. What can I do to fix it ?
September 14th 05 08:46 AM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
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I need a file by Nutbar
A users computer is giving a VFat error message on boot up. I found it needs the file ifshlp.sys placed back in the system folder as it mysteriously vanished. I have no idea where my predecessor left all of the CD's although I did find 95B/w2k/wxp/w2k3/wnt just no 98. Is there any way I can use...
September 13th 05 03:45 PM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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KARAOKE SINGERS WANTED - the world is listening! by KIO
KARAOKE SINGERS WANTED - the world is listening! Prepare to have fun and meet fellow karaoke singers from around the world! Karaoke enthusiasts and people just like you from around the world can now enter our fun and rewarding international online amateur singing contest aptly named - Karaoke...
September 13th 05 03:49 AM
by KIO Go to last post
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Beeps when copying from one fixed drive to another fixed drive by Brent
I have a laptop with Windows 98. It has 3 seperate partitions as it will not support a hard drive larger than 2 GB. I have tried to copy files from one drive partition to another and the computer speaker will beep and the file will not even attempt to copy or move. I have an external drive and I...
September 12th 05 09:16 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Can't access USB hard drive by Malu
I've been using a USB 2.0 Pocketec hard drive on my computer for 1 year with no problems. The last time I used it was yesterday and today when I started the computer, it wasn't in the My Computer folder. I checked the Device Manager and it says the device is working properly. I went to BIOS and...
September 12th 05 04:05 AM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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CD Player problem by Patch
I've got an older computer running Win98. When I try to play an audio CD it says that it can't find "Wmplayer.exe". (I searched the entire drive and I can't find it either.) I've got Winamp installed, if I start Winamp first, then I can play an audio CD. I suppose the file got dumped when Winamp...
September 10th 05 10:28 PM
by AlmostBob Go to last post
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Hard Drives cannot work together by Terry
I recently get a new hard drive, so I can transfer files from old hard drive. Both of them are external hard drive. However they don't like each other, and only one of them will show up at my computer. When I check system log, the one does not show up indicate: "This device is either not present,...
September 8th 05 03:53 AM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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problems with defrag by ØR
problems with defragging my system disk. program runs endlessly. trying to enter safe mode to defrag from there but no luck. wont enter safe mode. i used to have a dual boot system (win98 SE and Windows XP Professional) and have removed the the disk with XP OS. the boot.ini from the dualboot...
September 2nd 05 05:21 PM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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dear microsoft.public.win98.disks.general readers by [email protected]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's getting a bit tiresome seeing one misguided American after another with their cutsie little yellow or red-white-blue ribbons on their outsized SUVs. Yeah, I guess it's the thing to do; maybe part of that whole soccer-mom culture. Unfortunately,...
September 1st 05 10:39 AM
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Defragment problems with windows 98 HELP!! by nancyu
HI I need to defragmen my OLD computer. It's at my moms house. I tried going through the defragmentation within window BUT it ran forever BUT nothing happened. I think the defragmentation program is not on the system. IF I put the startup disk into the computer will I be able to load the defrag....
August 30th 05 05:19 AM
by glee Go to last post
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lost word files by flipjack
I mistakenly deleted a number of word files from my recycle bin. How do I retrieve them? I can not find a "system restore" program. I use windows 98
August 26th 05 03:07 AM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Recycle Bin by bartman
Hi I was wondering if someone could help me out. Whenever I delete something from my C: drive (Main Windows drive) the deleted files ends up in the recycle bin. However whenever I delete files from my D: drive the deleted file does not end up in the recycle bin. I still get the standard warning...
August 25th 05 08:57 PM
by Mikhail Zhilin Go to last post
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regedit is not opening by bko_flower191
whenever i try to open regedit, it gives following error message "This program has performed an illegal operation & will be terminated, quit all proagrams & restart windows.The program tried to execute an invalid instruction" However even afer restarting the windows, problem is still there.What...
August 20th 05 07:27 AM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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