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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities by No Name
Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft...
May 7th 10 07:43 AM
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Hassle Free USB Drive by [email protected]
Toshiba’s External Hard Drives are a hassle free, simple and easy solution to all your backup needs. It takes the mystery out of backing up your most precious digital memories by combining Toshiba’s most reliable hard drive technology with easy to use backup software - NTI Shadow™. The software...
September 29th 09 07:56 AM
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A strange symptom by Jerry Bank
Starting yesterday I am getting some very strange behavior from OE6. When I send an email I get the box showing the progress, which progesses properly. However, when it is finished it says that it encountered errors, which are not shown in the error pane. The message stays in my outbox,...
September 29th 09 05:26 PM
by Jerry Bank Go to last post
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Problem with accessing a partition by Andrew[_2_]
My 160GB Western Digital (48-bit LBA), PATA hard disk (the only HD I have on this machine) is for a reason partitioned as follows: C: (Win98se, primary, 14.5GB), * (WinXP, primary, 30.6GB), D: (logical, 11.8GB), E: (logical, 7.6 GB) and * (unallocated, primary, 87.5 GB). All partitions are...
May 18th 10 12:26 PM
by Andrew[_2_] Go to last post
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Preserving the dates on folders (and files) when copying from anetwork share by SlickRCBD[_3_]
A while ago I backed up my Win98SE computer's hard drive to a virtual machine virutal disk drive. When I tried to copy everything back, the dates on the various folders were not preserved no matter what I did. Nor were the file dates preserved. Now that Windows is up and running after swapping...
October 18th 09 04:50 PM
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HDD suddenly has bad sectors by SpamMePlease\(NOT\)
Hi Have a hdd which has suddenly developed bad sectors/clusters. Currently I cannot boot to windows so I booted to the command prompt and ran a surface scan dos utility with the auto fix switch. This surface scan dos utility has been running day and night for 4 days and has 1200+ bad clusters.
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April 23rd 07 01:54 AM
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What other brands of flash drives can I use with Win98 besidesSanDisk Cruzer? by SlickRCBD[_3_]
I feel so limited only being able to buy SanDisk Cruzer flash drives because they are the only one I know of that will work with my old Windows 98SE computer. What other brand of thumb drives can I buy and where can I obtain the drivers to use them?
January 26th 10 01:34 AM
by Steven Saunderson Go to last post
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HDD install not detected by Chuck
I am trying to install a new replacement HDD in my boy's PC (PIII 333MHz, Win98--yeah, it's old). I have a Seagate 80GB replacement HDD. After a couple of tries and some cable swaps, I got the machine to boot back up from the motherboard, but it will not detect the new HDD. It won't even boot from...
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February 22nd 06 10:34 PM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Windows 98 large file-count tests on large volume (500 gb hard drive) by 98 Guy
File copy test - Windows 98 ------------------------- Hardware Details: Motherboard: ASRock Dual VSTA: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=775Dual-vsta CPU: Intel Celeron 3.46 ghz Chipset: VIA PT880 Pro/Ultra Chipset Driver download (VIA Hyperion Pro Driver Package):
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July 30th 07 02:18 PM
by 98 Guy Go to last post
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Recovery CD by Karen
Microsoft says I have to get a recovery CD from HP since my windows 98 came from there but HP no longer has recovery CD's for 98. I let one of my husband's idiot friends do some work on my computer and now I don't have backup ability and I'm having problems with my computer so need to back up...
May 15th 04 01:31 PM
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250 GB drives - please help by 98 Guy
Adam wrote: Not sure what the potential problem is with ScanDisk+Win98SE+ Big Drives First, understand that there are 2 scandisk's. One is the DOS scandisk (scandisk.exe) and the second is Windows scandisk (scandskw.exe + diskmaint.dll). Then there is defrag (AKA windows defrag).
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December 20th 07 09:16 PM
by Jeffery Go to last post
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Can IDE cable's end connector be left idle ( w-o affecting data transfer ) ? by TE Cheah
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...
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March 14th 06 06:34 PM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Clean Install of Windows 98 by DL
Jeff, thanks for replying back to my post about performing a clean install of Windows 98. See, I was a little unsure because when I did this with Windows Xp last month it seemed that the fdisk utility and the formatting were all built into the Windows Xp installation Cd that came with my pc. Very...
June 9th 04 11:40 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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need to upgrade PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 - please help by Adam
My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with...
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November 4th 04 11:58 AM
by Adam Go to last post
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Formatting a 20G HDD, One Partition, With Small Size Clusters by Brad
Hi, I installed a 20G HDD in my Windows 98se computer. With one partition, I formatted it. The results is 16K byte clusters. With a FAT32 system, a 32 bit number ("index") can represent around 4.3G. This in effect should allow around 4 billion clusters maximum. The major reason for a...
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May 31st 08 06:06 AM
by Gary S. Terhune[_2_] Go to last post
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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...
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May 24th 06 09:02 PM
by Rick Chauvin Go to last post
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"Initial" Track on CD Rom Disk (Physical Stop or "Seek") by Brad
Hi, Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the right direction with regards to the "initial" track position (inside) when you first insert a data CD. Another very important question: Is there a physical "stop" that stops the head (the head moves toward the center of the CD and "hits" a physical...
February 28th 06 07:27 PM
by AlmostBob Go to last post
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Scandisk Created Numbered Directories by
I tried setup /is, looked like it would work, then this message popped up: "There is a crosslinked file on drive c, Run scandisk /all from setup disk 1 or win98 compact disk to fix the problem. Setup cannot continue." I tried running scandisk but it wants to fix a problem with every file in every...
May 6th 04 01:22 AM
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Why did reformatted C: and reinstalling Win98SE corrupt 2nd hard d by [email protected]
I have a desktop computer running Win98SE. A month ago, a bug developed and my IE and MSN Messenger web browser app kept crashing. I copied over contents of My Documents to my second Maxtor internal hard drive (D:) which is connected to an IDE board in my computer. I reformatted my primary...
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May 8th 08 12:38 AM
by philo Go to last post
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need 2.5" ATA-5 4200 RPM HDD recommendation for laptop - please help by Adam
The 2.5" ATA-5 4200 RPM Fujitsu HDD (model MHK2120AT) in my Dell Latitude CPX laptop gets noisy sometimes and makes me nervous. It's about time to replace it before it dies. Any recommendations of a good yet reasonably priced 2.5" ATA-5 4200 RPM HDD?
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July 15th 05 08:00 AM
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