Hi, Thanks to everyone who responded to my various posts relating to this problem. I hope I didn't annoy anyone. I did perform the cleaning, lube, etc. which some of you suggested, but that didn't solve the problem. I found technical information on the web about CD disk media, but not...

I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives – 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can...

Per www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable-c.html "Using the middle connector and leaving the end connector unattached ...... leaves part of the cable "dangling". This is called a stub and creates much worse electrical characteristics on the cable, due to reflections from the unterminated ends of...

hello, after a voltage down while booting my drive now has the data format RAW. Also is there a "interupt 24". What happened and how can it be repaired? Is the FAT or a particion table damaged?

Hi, From time to time, I come across an article about CD roms, etc. What I have learned so far, CD-R (I use) is better than CD-RW for long term storage of important data. Also, how they are stored can have a bearing on their "life". I keep CD roms in a dark cool location. To test the integrity...

I'm using 98SE on an old AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, hard drive is formtted in FAT32 but i do have an external USB drive that is 200gig in size and formatted in NTFS, if i plug this into 98SE system will i be able to access it or will i have to apply some kind of patch? I used to have it working fine in...

Hello all, I've recently put a 40 GB drive in an external enclosure with an USB connection, but have problems with using the drive. When I try to partition the drive (using the standard W98se FDISK) it comes back as a a drive of only 6 GB (which probably has to do with the 32 GB-limit). Applying...

Hello, I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM). He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it opened and saved on...

A couple of spyware searches indicated that the follow file with a font extension is a severe threat. It shows the location as C/windows/fonts/acrsecI.fon. I have been unable to locate such a file so I can remove it. None of the fonts show up with this name. I haven't registered the spyware...

My CD-RW drive worked just fine until a few days ago. It recognized all CD- Rs and CD-RWs , but now it simply stopped working. When the drawer is opened, the light comes on, but when I insert a CD-R or CD-RW I get the message "Q is not accessible. The device is not ready." I clicked on the...

My daughters PC, which was running windows 98, recently died. The machine had one small hard drive which was compressed using drivespace 3. I need to recover her college research papers which are stored on this hard drive. I can take the drive out of her machine and temporarily install it on...

Does anyone know how to set Disk Clean up automatically at startup? I have tried to paste a shortcut for Disk Clean up at Start up, but it always request to select a drive before performing any task. Does anyone know how to set the drive and let the Disk Clean up run automatically without...

Does anyone know what Low Level Format is about? and how to perform it? Thank you Eric

Alan wrote: To try and resolve repeated random problems, I have been advised by the hard drive manufacturer to replace the Primary IDE cable. The existing cable supplied with the motherboard is a 80-conductor ribbon cable for UltraDMA/66/100/133 so technically I do believe I have the ...

I have a directory with over 600 folders. I want to copy about 200 of these folders with names that all start with the letter K(incl all subfolders and files) I tried xcopy c:\directoy\K???? d:\directory /s/v but it didn't work. Is their a syntax that will work or is there another way to do a batch...

I have purchased the Rosetta Stone Language learning system and want to make a copy. Is there a way to save it or copy it to my hard drive?

Hi. I have a Western Digital WDC400 full of data, and after some hardware failures of my MoBo I could not access to it anymore (I've changed the MoBo) After trying every posible configuration (master, slave, alone , in another computer), bios does not detect it. Today I 've tried an old red hat...

Something has changed with my laptop. When I reboot after it has been off for awhile, like overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy drive and I get "operating system not found". Changing the boot option to the hard drive does no good. If I install the System Disk 1, change the boot option to...

Hi, I formatted a floppy disc. It was already empty. Is there a way to unformat, return factory settings, make completely empty? Thanks