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Unable to delete files or format hard drive by dcgapg
Anytime I delete a file from my slave hard drive it doesn't get deleted. Also if I format the hard drive, either through Windows or in DOS it doesn't erase the information on the hard drive. Right now on the drive it has a capacity of 7.82GB, 703mb used and 7.13GB free but the problem is it's a...
June 29th 04 04:09 AM
by Steve Baron - KB3MM Go to last post
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win 98 disk by
I have misplaced my win 98 CD but still have the original packaging with code numbers. Any way to obtain a replacement other than an outright full-price purchase???
October 3rd 04 12:39 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Hard drive by Nick
I bought a used laptop with Windows 98 installed and am having problems. The hard drive shows up as an icon, but looks to be covered in snow? I'm assuming this means there is a problem. I save things to the hard drive and they are there, but when I turn the computer off, the files are gone when...
October 2nd 04 12:57 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Overloaded drve C on a partitioned hard drive by Jene
How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much on my c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I got it. I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you
October 31st 04 03:30 AM
by Jene Go to last post
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5.5 inch floppy disks by jdriscol
We have stacks of old 5.5 inch floppy disks. I have put a 5.5 drive into a win 98 computer, but it doesn't detect it and I have no idea what brand it is. Is there a way to get the drive to read the files enough to transfer them to the hard drive and/or CD writer?
October 26th 04 10:59 PM
by PattyL Go to last post
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Virtual Device Drivers by Adrienne
Two Mircsosoft virtual drivers -- netbeui.vxd and wsipx.vxd are installed on my hard drive. Someone in the building is using NetBIOs to hack into my computers' network. My firewall (eTrust Firewall) caught it and all I had to do was check "YES" to prevent future attempts. However, these files are...
November 10th 04 03:47 PM
by SFB - KB3MM Go to last post
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deleting folder on backup D drive(CPQDRV) by leowomn
I royally messed up my Works2000 and cannot remove nor reinstall it, and cannot install a new Works program because it detects the old one. Can I delete the folder from CPQDRV without messing up anything else and would this remove all traces of Works2000?
November 27th 04 05:43 PM
by leowomn Go to last post
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I can't create new folders. by Knowpig
I am running win 98/2nd edition. It seems to me I used to be able to right click on my desktop or in a folder and have an option to create a new folder. Now it's gone! I can't create any new folders. What have I done? How can I undo it? I searched, but I only found one related post, and it was...
January 28th 05 06:47 PM
by Bert Kinney Go to last post
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C: Drive deisgnated as Backup C: by blank
My brother brought me his computer which they said would not load up, even with a Windows start-up disk. They have Windows 98 on the computer. I used my start-up disk and got Windows to load but it would not recognize the C: drive. When I would try to change directories to C: it would tell me it...
February 4th 05 10:48 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Re-install Win98SE - existing programs? by SteBar
Can I re-install my Win98SE utilising the original CD (I have the product key) without affecting any other previously installed applications and data? If so how? tia - Steve B.
September 13th 04 10:39 PM
by Greg Go to last post
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Scandisk 105% complete by Timo
After a system crash because of an exception in Explorer, my Win98 SE PC is trying to run SCANDISK upon bootup, but it always freezes when it gets to about 85% complete. The most recent error is that it was 105% complete, but I couldn't exit or boot. Any suggestions on how to get past this...
September 15th 04 07:42 AM
by bob y Go to last post
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Partiton magic and my hd by bob
I have a HD that is not currently being seen by my WIN98OS, but is seen by my bios. I just got Partition Magic 8, and it sees the drive and the partition(s) I have on it. It classifies them as "EZ- DRIVE" type. What can PMagic do for me to get win98 to see/use the drive without me loosing the...
July 7th 04 11:39 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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98 Windows CD by Crazy Joe
Is it possible to get a replacement for my windows CD for 98 second edition?
August 12th 04 11:42 PM
by Paul Go to last post
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how to install windows on new HDD by shelley
HELP!!!!! i have recently purchased a new cd+rw drive , a new HDD and a windows 98 cd and i was wondering how to install Windows 98 onto the new HDD please e-mail me at
August 6th 04 11:57 PM
by Jon_Hildrum Go to last post
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How do you know if your harddrive is done??? by Jess
I've been doing some trading between two computers. One has a P1 and the other is P3 so I wanted all the best stuff on the P3. So I put the 80G HD and the CD-RW drive into the P3. I also bought a router to put internet on the two computers. Now the P1 has the 15G that came out of the P3. When ...
August 12th 04 11:09 PM
by Paul Go to last post
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Lost Clusters by ergil
Received msg when doing scandisk that there were 16,000 missing clusters in 2 bad sectors on my hard disk. Replaced it, reformatted etc. Now I have double the amount of missing clusters and still 2 bad sectors showing on the defrag grid.What did I do wrong,or do I have a problem with the ribbon...
August 12th 04 10:42 PM
by Paul Go to last post
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My drive is 80gb. I've used 30gb. Windows tells me I have 700mb free by Arthur
Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times. And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer any data to this drive--I...
August 26th 04 03:30 PM
by Arthur Go to last post
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Bad Crash by Jeanne
My husband was transferring large files from his laptop to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to do a SYS C:, but...
September 30th 04 11:32 AM
by ixa Go to last post
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Error prevents Error Checking Disk Utility from Checking for Errors by [email protected]
I am unable to run ScanDisk on my Win98 system. I keep getting the error message "ScanDisk has restarted 10 times because Windows or some other program has been writing to this drive. Quitting some running programs may enable ScanDisk to finish sooner. Do you want to continue receiving this...
September 11th 04 01:30 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Phantom D: drive by Dave
I have a phantom D: drive on my machine of zero size, the remainder of the drives being moved up a letter. My Computer - Properties - Perfomance shows "Drive D is using an MS-DOS compatibility mode file system". I did not do this. Discwizard shows only the real partitions on the drives. From...
February 27th 05 01:07 AM
by Steven Go to last post
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