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Bad Cluster by
bartman
Hi, I recently got told by my OS (Windows 98) that I have a few bad/damaged
clusters on my hard drive. I've run Scandisk throughly and told Scandisk to
fix any errors however they're still there, I've also ran Disk Defragmenter.
My PC now runs much slower than usual and startup takes a long...
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wiping data off a hard drive by
tim309
Hi everyone, I have a problem with a portable usb 2G micro hard drive.
I use(d) it a lot and now it has decided to stop working. Worst case
and most likely cause is that its a problem with the interface
electroncs rather than the physical disk. The problem for me is that
the store will happily give...
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December 25th 06 05:49 AM
by philo
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File Allocation Table in Embedded system by
[email protected]
Hi All,
I need to get some information on the implementation of FAT for an
embedded system environment. I am developing a system with an FPGA
(Field Programmable Gate Array) on it. The FPGA is supposed to read and
write data to/from the hard-disk. There is no operating system involved
which can...
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Part-empty floppy refuses to fill up. by
John
A friend is having trouble with floppy disks which the system will not
fill.
They take about 800 kB and then reject any further files.
He has lots of small text files and I wondered if there is an upper
limit to the number of files W. will store on a floppy.
Can anyone suggest what might be...
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December 18th 06 11:09 PM
by philo
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Hard Drive not recognized by BIOS, recovery CD useless. by
[email protected]
I have a friend w/ a pentium 3 Gateway machine (OEM OS has been removed
previously and Windows OS/98 and Windows OS/XP had been loaded and
working great.) that has two hard drives, one with Windows OS/98 and
the other drive with Windows OS/XP.
Recently he believes that his system was attacked by a...
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hard drive refuses to boot by
pablo
Hi
While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD
for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot.
Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the
system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive
and booted up with another freshly reformatted drive
running win 98 se. I am...
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Windows 98se cannot see DVD drive by
MrFantastic
I have a dual boot system consisting of win98se and windows xp. Presently I
am using an IDE switch box to use the system with that has a cd burner for
98 and then I use the dvd burner for xp. The reason I do this is because
when I boot the system with the dvd drive there isnt even a drive...
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December 10th 06 06:35 PM
by philo
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December 9th 06 11:23 AM
by pablo
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lost files I need to find on win install CD why search will not find them? by
DJW
I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff)
I did a clean install from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web
cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally
got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing
vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd &...
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lost files I need to find on win install CD why search will not find them? by
DJW
I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff)
I did a clean install from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web
cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally
got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing
vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd &...
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December 5th 06 05:47 PM
by DJW
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Disk restoration from image after formatting by
Levlg
Programs of formatting a hard disk checks its surface and excludes the
damaged (unreliable) places from further use - this is written in the
manual. Clearly, that if after formatting a hard disk something will be
written on it, these excluded places will not be used. And will it be fair
in the...
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Drive F: not accessible in 98. Ok in XP by
Labrat
I'm running a Dual-boot 98SE/WinXp Pro setup. Two HDs. A 200G Maxtor
with an 80G WD. The 80G used to hold my 98 Then I purchased the 200G,
partitioned (4) and cloned 98 to the first partition, installed XP Home
to the second and voila. I had a functioning dual-boot rig. After big
problems...
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December 4th 06 05:29 AM
by Labrat
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Floppy Disk Drive with Delayed Problem by
Brad
Hi,
I have a Compaq Contura 410C laptop (bought around 1997) which
I do not use a lot. When I first power it up (external power, not battery),
the floppy disk drive works just fine for about 10 minutes. Afterwards,
I have trouble reading floppy disks (drive not ready type of problem).
I...
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December 3rd 06 05:49 PM
by philo
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How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable? by
DJW
How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable?
I have a Compaq Presario 5204. The paper manual says if you connect an
additional IDE (hard drives?) to set the jumpers to cable select.
If I understand cable select allows the derive at the end to be the
primary (master and the middle on...
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Bad Hard drive or doing something wrong? by
DJW
I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on
ebay.
I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned
it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made
from a download from their site.
All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it...
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November 30th 06 02:53 PM
by Babs
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Boot Disk lost.. by
Ted Gervais
I lost my boot disk for Win98 Millenium.
How do I get a new one. I have lots for Win98SE. But I believe they won't
work (fully) for the Millenium version??
Anyone please?
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November 27th 06 11:51 PM
by philo
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Best Partition magic / Drive Image successors? by
1966olds
Hi,
Running Windows XP (SP2) and still using Partition Magic 7.0 (with an
update or two) and Drive Image 2002. No problems yet, but I realize
eventually I'll need to jump to another product.
I'd like to know, if possible, consensus as to best current mainstream
replacement for both. I know...
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USB Flash Drive's Life Span by
Brad
Hi,
I am a heavy user of USB flash drives such as the Lexar
"Jump Drive" 1G and 2G types. I use these to transfer stuff from one
computer to another, then delete (clear) the flash drive for more stuff.
What is the life span of a USB flash drive (example 1000 re-writes)?
...
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Win2k USB drive assignment locations? by
James
I have a fully updated Win2k system with multiple hard drives and
network shared drives. After drives, partitions & shares I have drive
slots N, P, V, W, Y & Z available. When the USB card reader with 3 USP
ports is added it is assigned N, P, V & W which works just fine. The
problem comes in...
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November 20th 06 06:07 AM
by James
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Dual Boot with 250GB hdd, can I with 98se or Me? by
Lete
Well, I bought a 250GB Seagate hdd (Pata) to make it my new boot device
(on a Athlon Xp 2000, Kudoz motherboard, 768MB Ram - my Bios recognize
correctly new boy's size). On my current boot (and only) hdd I've got 4
Fat32 partitions, with 98SE on C: and XpPro on D:
What do I do to maintain this...
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November 17th 06 06:37 AM
by jt3
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