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?

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...

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...

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...

No other problems with computer. TIA

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...

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 ... ...

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...

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...

I lost the ability to pull down new from file in the explore or mycomputer. What can I do? Thanks.

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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,...

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?

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...

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,

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...