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scan disk scandskw.exe errors by
paul
i want to defrag my hard disk. when i run defrag it says
errors are on disk so run scandisk. when i try to run
scandisk it fails. Errors and then the machine locks up.
I guess I need another copy of scandisk. Tried to go via
MS website - nothing, tried help line, nothing. I have my
Win98 disk I...
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max. SCSI Drive ? by
Werner Vogt
Hallo,
google says: Max. IDE-Harddisk is 137 GB
is there someone, who knows how big an SCSI Disk
under Win98 could be?
sorry, but my english is not perfect.
Werner
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Lost space on hard drive by
Redinthesun
Windows 98SE. Have a 40gb hard drive with 2 partitions each of 20 gb.
Formatted C: for a new installation and then deleted the D: partition
assuming they would then merge back to one again. Having formatted C: and
reinstalled windows, there is only one 20gb drive. Where has the rest of it
gone and...
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January 28th 05 04:01 PM
by James
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Defragment hangs - doesn't go past 2% by
hbworker
When Defragmenting my hard drive it never goes past 2%. After reaching 2%, it
loops back to 0. Disk Scan also fails.
Disk Scan says that it has been interrupted ten times by a progarm writing
to the disk. I don't think I have anything running since I closed all the
start up progarms shown on the...
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January 25th 05 02:53 AM
by mark
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Partitioning with a Win98 boot disk. by
west
I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot disk for
a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and then
select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10GB of
hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of...
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Restoring Windows 98 by
Wayne
I have this old HP Pavilion 6470z. I put Red Hat on it, and now I want to
use the HP restore disks to put Windows 98 back on it. I tried to run the
restore disks. The first one seemed to run OK, copying a lot of files. Then
the PC rebooted, and it booted to the Red Hat. (It is of course a...
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All Win 98 File Dates and System Time Reset to 1980 ! by
Stubborn 98'r
I had been experimenting in a frenzy of copying, changing, and activating
alternate partitions; and defragging and rebooting. Once or twice W98 OS got
hung: I had to power off which caused scandisk to run on bootup.
Somewhere along the way System Time got hosed, probably by a...
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Missing .DLL File by
Alison Soper
I'm trying to load my Broadband and have been asked to run the Windows 98
Second Edition Disk, which I have done, and it says the file ATTMUI.DLL is
missing. BT (the broadband supplier) have advised me to manually extract file
from disk but I don't have a clue how to do this. Can anyone help please?
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Booting from compressed drive by
Jeff Richards
Are you having trouble starting Windows, or are you having trouble mounting
the compressed drive? If it's the compressed drive, what is the command you
are using to mount it, and what is the error message that is being
generated? If you are having problem starting Windows, exactly how far
through...
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May 25th 05 09:54 PM
by PattyL
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Hard Disk copy by
Amit Mangla
I have pentium III 733 Mhz, 128 MB SDRAM, 40 GB harddisk
cpu. My hardisk have bed sector and i have to replace it
with the new one.
I want to copy all data of old harddisk (C: drive and D:
drive) in to new hard disk. How can i do that.
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160 GB HD in win98SE by
Brillo
Hi. I'm considering a new larger HD, and I understand Win98 has
issues with HD's as large as what I need. I'm hoping to buy a 160 GB
drive. Some of what I've read says I'll only be able to use 137 GB of
it, right? So is that a limit for the drive, or can I get around it
by partitioning the...
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December 24th 04 05:23 AM
by TPC
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Recovering deleted data by
Paradoxdb3
I have recently (within the last month) sent some files to the recycle bin
and have since emptied it. There were files in there that I now wish I had
not deleted. Is there any way to retrieve these files using Windows 98?
I also have a free data recovery program, but it requires that I select...
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Defrag... by
Kathie
Is there a way to Defrag from the C prompt on Win 98? My
brother is having a problem with his puter. He cannot get
it to even operate in Safe Mode. It will only go into DOS
when you say "operate in Safe Mode" I'm in the East, he's
in the West. Just had him skndsk in DOS, but now I want
to defrag....
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Tip for people loading software from CDROMs a lot by
Pete
I read a few posts from people whose Windows original
CDROM had become unreadable. One easy way to avoid this
if you're adding/repairing bits a lot is to backup the
entire CDROM contents to hard disk (e.g. to a folder
called C:\Copies\Windows98SE\). I do that with most of my
software CDROMs, and...
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not reading hard drive by
Gary
When turning on computer it asks for boot disk, when i
try an install without formatting i get disk errors. and
at the dos prompt i can only read my A: drive. trying to
read or format my C: gives a bad command. is there any
help out there. Thanks
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looking for the latest 98SE version by
STP
I'm looking to purchase Windows 98SE on a market like ebay
or from another source. What is the difference between a
full load version and a full OEM version? Also, once I
find an original full version to buy, how I can determine
whether it's the latest produced? In otherwords, I want
to shop for...
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Hard Drive by
Richard
I have windows 98. Booted up using the start up disk.
Already went thru the fdisk command. (Have an existing
partition,pressed y, 4512M) asked the ? do you want to
boot from cd,w/o cd, I pressed cd support. Then,began to
Format C: /s. Windows started to Format(at this pt I have
a black screen...
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Temp Folder named _ISTMP45.DIR by
The Brat
I somehow got a glitch in my computer.
Anyone need a challenge ? :)
Because I have a folder named C:\windows\temp\_ISTMP45.DIR
I can't do any updates for maintenance.
I can't check for errors on the HD
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Win98 Orig.Disk by
Robert Hahn
I bought a used Toshiba notebook that had Win98 on it and it worked fine
for several weeks. Recently I started having problems during boot-up that
kept getting progressively worse. It finally got to the point of not loading
98 at all, with error messages stating various files were missing...
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nero burning rom by
teong song mau
why my computer can't do copying on certain cd to my hardisk. it will show
"error while reading.possibility of corrupt disc" ? please help. thanks.
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