I was using partition magic to create a new partition on an external drive. While rebooting the computer froze and I had to unplug it. My external drive is "corruptable or unreadable." Portition magic says error 7 "operation canceled by user" occured. How do I fix this. Can I?

I need some OEM code(s) for Win 98 and Home Essentials 98... Anyone? Thanks!

As regards copying one harddrive to another is there any difference among the following terms? backup copy image clone and any other such words.

My Inspiron 6000 doesn't have a floppy drive and I would like to copy from a floppy to a cd to access my files any suggestions -- claire

Hi! I don't know if this is in the right thread, but I need some help. I'm running Windows 98(SE) on an old PC which only has 7 gigs of HD space. Awhile back, I had to use my recovery disk to repair a huge problem. The problem that cropped up afterwards was that I was cut down to 3GB of disk space....

Hi, My cousin asked me to repair his Compaq Presario 1060 laptop (Windows 95) which developed two problems at the same time!!! One of the two problems has to do with the floppy disk drive which suddenly has trouble reading floppy disks. The other problem (started around the same time...

hi .. had a power failure a few weeks back .. had a 120 gig ide drive , which was partitioned into to equal halves , one for the operating system , this one is ok , fat32 file system ... and the other for data,, which winxp keeps want to format , was also fat32 ,, but is being reported as raw or...

http://www.gogsoft.com/060909/awo_filesplit.htm I have just paid this software, this file splitter can split large files (of any size or type), then easily rejoin without the use of this software. easily break up large files (no limits, splits any sized file) for copying to floppy or sending via...

I am a bit of a dummy when it comes to computer terminology, so i dont know what this means or what to do. i am trying to run scan disk but am getting this message" the 'C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs' folder contains incorrect information about 'tvDebug.log'. The size of the file is idfferent from...

Hi, The floppy drive, part # 261848-001, in my 1997 (abt.) Compaq Presario 1060 laptop is bad and there is no replacement available. Note: I service TVs, etc., rarely computers. I have a floppy drive from another model Compaq laptop, not the same part number, but it could fit in the space...

Hi, Note: I cleaned both drives, floppy & CD, (Compaq Presario 1060 laptop yr 1997) but problem remains. I used a "lab" type of power supply as substitute for latpop's external power supply. Also, see original post below. More tests made since my original post exposed something very...

Hi Ben, Here is more information I forgot to mention: This laptop had no trouble reading the "burned" CDs before this trouble started. Note: I often used the CD drive to read a particular "burned" CD. Now, it has trouble reading that CD. Floppy drive problem, which started at the...

Hi, Mystery problem with Compaq Presario 1060 Laptop. Note: I service TVs, etc., rarely service a computer. PROBLEM (Hard Disk Drive is fine): On the same day (no storm and it wasn't dropped) this laptop started to have read/write problems with the floppy disk drive

I have installed a new 80GB HDD (recognized as Drive G:) onto which I have cloned the OS from Drive C:. However when restarting the PC, the machine will only boot if I leave the original C: in the system. The new disk still has the drive letter G: assigned to it. I have used both PowerQuest...

Hi, Sorry I forgot to mention that I thoroughly cleaned both drives and I do not smoke (very bad for your health). INTERESTING FLOPPY DRIVE TEST: I used a program called "Sector Access" and read a string (100) of sectors starting at sector 00000000 (boot sector) into a file called...

Hi, The laptop had a "stroke" while I was using it. Note: Windows booted up just fine, then something happened. Everything "froze" and there was no response to any input. I had to turn off the power. I disconnected power, removed the battery pack, and waited. Later, when I turned on the...

The drive was aggressively priced; I had to have it. I was fairly certain that my old Win98SE system wouldn't do the 300GB. But I went to the Abit site and, after a few false starts, I managed to flash my BIOS up to the 7N version. This is said to recognize drives over 137GB. Went into the...

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Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't...