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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...
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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...
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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?
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May 16th 06 08:54 PM
by JRGunn
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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June 15th 06 01:19 AM
by philo
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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...
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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...
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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...
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July 12th 06 03:28 PM
by Adam
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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?
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