A Windows 98 & ME forum. Win98banter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » Win98banter forum » Windows 98
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Post New Thread
Threads in Forum : Disk Drives Forum Tools Search this Forum Feed Icon
  Thread / Thread Starter Last Post Reverse Sort Order Replies Views
Problem with scandisk ( win 98se) by Tassie
Maintenance/defragmentation scandisk, keeps continually restarting. then a message says: "scan disk has restarted 10 times because windows or some other program is writing to this drive" I have no programs running and can't fathom what can be wrong. Defragmentation scanning can't even start...
May 13th 06 01:05 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
2 1,869
Can't Install Hard Drive by [email protected]
I had to replace my defective hard drive. I installed one that had been wiped clean by the previous user. As a result, when I attempted to use my HP Recovery CD, it produced the C: prompt but indicated that it was unable to detect a hard drive. I assume that means that the hard drive has to be...
May 16th 06 10:22 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
2 2,044
Copy specific folders, more by JRGunn
In reference to my previuos post, I also have several hundred folders where the names end in an R or a K. is there a way to sort the folders based on the last letter of the folder name?
May 16th 06 08:54 PM
by JRGunn Go to last post
0 2,986
Scandisk won't run on USB drive by Occupant
Scandisk tells me I don't have enough memory to run when I try to check a USB drive. It works OK when I check the internal drives. Rebooting and running Scandisk first does not help. The USB drive has 105GB used and 80GB free. Windows crashed while it was writing to the drive and now I get an...
May 18th 06 12:10 AM
by Occupant Go to last post
4 2,144
Invalid Sustem Disk by Abe
I installed a formatted Hard Drive in my computer and attempted to boot up with a floppy. In fact, I attempted to boot up with 3 different floppies which I had downloaded from the internet. In each case I received the error message, "Invalid System Disk. " I tried changing the order of boot up...
May 19th 06 10:43 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
4 1,863
Boot Floppy for HP 6635 Pavilion by [email protected]
I need a boot floppy for a computer in which I just replaced the hard drive. I tried booting up with generic boot floppies downloaded from the internet but they didn't work. If anyone has a boot floppy specifically for the HP Pavilion, I would be happy to pay for same. Please advise.
May 20th 06 05:38 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
1 1,980
Laptop disk disaster by OUTLOOK TEST
My daughter has a problem with her laptop which holds all her exam course work. I have removed the HDD (Hitachi TravelStar HTS424040msat00) and bought a 2.5 to 3.5 ATA to IDE convertor and put the TravelStar (NTFS type disk) in an old HP Vectra running W98. This has a CD so I removed the CD IDE...
May 24th 06 12:23 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
2 2,000
How to restore Win-ASPI file? by Abraham
How do I restore the Win-ASPI file?
May 24th 06 05:39 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
2 1,263
How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate by ernie
Not strictly a Windows 98 issue but here it is: I have a Quantum Fireball 541 which transfers data at a very slow rate according to HdTach. Is there a utility for turning the rate up to the expected rate that I can download, I have powermax but it does not include this function and neither does...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
May 24th 06 09:02 PM
by Rick Chauvin Go to last post
21 4,153
my format util is not working in WIN by [email protected]
Hi All, i have developed a format utility, following are the cases where my format is successfull 1. Able to create, delete, list the files ( In LINUX and WIN). 2. Formats a drive which contains few files.(In LINUX). Now the problem was my format utility was failing in WIN where the partition has...
May 29th 06 10:27 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
0 1,078
HD help by oujokpo
I have an old pc with a faulty Hard disk. There is no way to get past the Win 98 logo. I recall that there is a command prompt that will allow me to see files which I can then copy onto another drive...I've done this before but cannot remember the prompt. This computer has now been replaced...
June 4th 06 01:36 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
6 1,360
Festplatte hat das Dateiformat RAW by John Fulton
hallo, nach einem Stromabfall beim Booten hat meine Festplatte nun das Dateiformat RAW (und es finden sich keine Dateien). Es kommt auch eine Interupt 24 Meldung beim Starten des PC, die garnichts sagt. Im Explorer ist die Platte da. Fehlt bei RAW die FAT oder ne Partitionstabelle? Und wie...
June 6th 06 12:57 AM
by Steven Saunderson Go to last post
3 1,078
Next Writable address by [email protected]
Hi, I am having one question, How the hard disk will come to know the Next Writable Address. When we issue write/read command, we specify data and number of bytes to read/write. But how the hard disk will come to know the address, it has to write to /read from specify sector. Who will...
June 10th 06 11:19 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
6 848
Accessing large NTFS directories demands 8.3 formatting by TonyFrim
We have just upgraded an old Novell Netware6 file server to a new Server 2003. When accessing the share from a Windows 98SE workstation and attempting to create a new directory with more than 8 characters, I get an error message that the disk being written to is only a FAT and cannot have more than...
June 13th 06 07:33 PM
by TonyFrim Go to last post
0 935
How to retrieve non-FAT drive by Ishtiaque Ahmed Memon
Dear All One of my friend had installed Windows 2000 on his computer (P-II) but soon realized that the computer did not have enough resources to run Windows 2000 smoothly. So he switched back to Windows 98. There are two partitions on his hard disk. After the installation of Windows 98 on the...
June 15th 06 01:19 AM
by philo Go to last post
1 1,262
Reformatting hard drive by bookworm656
Now that I have all the files I need off the old computer that I've mentioned before, I'd like to reformat the hard drive and install Windows 98SE (I already have the install CD). I might also want to partition it and install 98SE and something else. The only thing I'm worried about is whether or...
June 18th 06 02:09 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
2 1,231
hp pavilion zt1155 partition space by [email protected]
Hi: I have recently made the mistake of using Windows NT to repartitions my hard drive. I deleted all partitions using Windows NT cd and then created a partition that was only 1.99 gigs. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to get all my disk space back...because with a Windows ME boot disk I've...
June 24th 06 10:46 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
1 1,207
160gb HDD getting repeated corrupted FAT by saidean
Hi everyone, I'd like to find out from those win98se users who are using HDDs of over 120gb capacity. I have a Seagate Barracuda 160gb HDD which I've been using fairly happily until the last few weeks when FAT corruption occurs a bit too frequently for my liking. Firstly I've tried the following...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
July 6th 06 12:32 AM
by Rick Chauvin Go to last post
16 3,756
"clink" sound on shutdown from newly installed notebook HDD (Seagate - ST96023A) - please help by Adam
I just replaced my notebook HDD (Fujitsu - MHK2120AT) with a new HDD (Seagate - ST96023A). But now, I am hearing a slight "clink" sound on shutdown. Is this normal?
July 12th 06 03:28 PM
by Adam Go to last post
6 2,155
fdisk shows one size and my computer shows another by icccapital
I ran a partition program that I thought didn't work, and then I installed 98se. Now my computer shows 2.2 gigs of total space and fdisk shows 3 gigs in the partition. Is there a way to recover these gigs in my computer?
July 23rd 06 02:07 PM
by icccapital Go to last post
0 1,410
Post New Thread


Display Options
Showing threads 1001 to 1020 of 1207
Sorted By Sort Order
From The
Forum Tools Search this Forum
Search this Forum :

Advanced Search

New posts New posts More than 15 replies or 150 views Hot thread with new posts
No new posts No new posts More than 15 replies or 150 views Hot thread with no new posts
Closed Thread Thread is closed  
 
Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 07:30 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 Win98banter.
The comments are property of their posters.