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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...
December 25th 06 06:49 AM
by philo Go to last post
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Apparent Win98SE IO.SYS bug by Steven
Hi, I have had trouble with W98SE and LBA partitions. I was getting phantom drives on some PC's. It turns out to be a bug in IO.SYS that occurs when an LBA partition exists in or follows a 0x05 extended partition. The problem is that when IO.SYS is calculating the absolute key to access a...
February 24th 05 06:18 AM
by Steven Go to last post
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DAT Tape Drive HP C1533A in Windows'98 SE (PL) by Marek W. Piłat ; Szczecinek
Hello ! Anybody help me ? Problem with installation DAT tape drive's HP C 1533A ( Gb) on Compaq (with SCSI). I dont see my DAT drive's in "My computer" (icon) and I cant use it - in "Steering Panel"Device Manager in my opinion - all's its good : this device its registered as "Other know...
July 8th 05 04:39 AM
by Jay Go to last post
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using timer switch to turn on computer by teong song mau
how to use timer switch to turn on my computer without pushing the switch button on my motherboard?thanks.
August 2nd 05 11:06 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Windows 98SE on MSI K8N Neo Platinum by TonyK
After horrendous problems with BSODs and other problems I decided to instal W98 Second Edition on a fresh partition so that I could get to my XP PRO system to copy it (doesn't work as W98 doesn't recognise NTFS). (I will probably get round this with Partition Magic recovery disks). However among...
November 26th 05 07:49 PM
by ernie Go to last post
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Win98 DOS defrag by Jonno
Is it possible to boot a Win98 box with the Win98 (floppy) Boot Disk and run the defrag command from there? Whenever I try this I get a message like "bad command" or "you must run this command from Windows". Alternatively, is it possible to run Windows (temporarily) from an external drive so that...
November 28th 05 09:54 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Formatting in Win98 w/o CD-ROM by Love Hertz
Hey.. Just wondering if there was a way to format my computer (which is lacking a cd-rom). I have another computer (running on XP).. is there a way to hook up the other computer and run off of that? I know it can be done because i brought it someone before and they did it.. (perhaps w/external...
January 12th 06 01:51 PM
by Love Hertz Go to last post
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HDD doesn't show in My Computer by Stan
Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't...
September 28th 06 04:12 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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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...
November 17th 06 07:37 AM
by jt3 Go to last post
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Hard Drive Problem by dcgapg
When I go into My Computer, my D: drive which is my slave hard drive shows up as a CD icon with the MS Office puzzle logo above it. My primary hd is drive C: and that icon is the right one. My CD-Rom is drive E: and that icon is the proper one aswell. When I try to delete any files from the D:...
June 21st 04 03:28 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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HELP by frank davila
I have seem to lost my windows 98 product key numbers. Is there any way I can get these numbers. Or is there a way that I can get general numbers that work on all the discs???????? Thanks A lot, Frank Davila
June 19th 04 01:28 PM
by Jerry Go to last post
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Can't use my CD-ROM by Alex
When I insert a CD program in my CD-ROM, my computer doesn't recognize that it's there. I went to Device Manager and there is an yellow circle with an exclamation point next to where it says: "Mitsumi CD-ROM controller with double speed drive". When I click it it say: "not present, not working...
May 20th 04 09:18 PM
by pjp Go to last post
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Windows won't start...disk problems by Steve Baron - KB3MM
Did you run scandisk from the floppy ? I wouldn't let it auto FIX until you get a better idea of what is going on. "Terry" tmspcpostalcom wrote in message ... Hello, I'm having a problem with my Win98SE PC that has a Seagate 20gig Baracuda
May 22nd 04 11:11 PM
by Terry Go to last post
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Can't scan disk and can't get defragment to run. by Easy
I've tried everything I know to get Disk scan to run properly and then run defragment and I'm unable to get niether to scan or defrag. Can anyone help me? I'm at the end of my road.
May 30th 04 02:31 PM
by mf Go to last post
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win98 boot disk by shawn
can someone tell me where i can get a win98 boot disk? i am trying to load win 98 but am having problems. i formatted the hard drive. i have a acer cd rom but do i have to install the drivers for that cd rom first so i can load win98 from the disk? if so, how do i do it? and of corse when the...
May 28th 04 01:06 PM
by Curt Christianson Go to last post
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Disk partition full by DSK
My hard disk is partitioned. I keep on running out of space on Drive C, but have masses of space on D. I have all my data on Drive D, and install applications there whenever I am offered the option to do so. Can I just move remaining applications from C to D, or must I uninstall and reinstall...
May 30th 04 12:04 AM
by Richard G. Harper Go to last post
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Hard Drive Replacement by monstamash
MY HD is damaged and I need to replace it in a Win 98 machine. Does anyone know what hard drives I can buy that would replace a Samsung SV0844A hard drive and be compatible with what is in the computer already? I can go for more than the original 8.4G , but compatibility is the question. I'll stay...
June 2nd 04 02:42 AM
by Steve Baron - KB3MM Go to last post
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Video Card by Peter
hi to all, Thank you in advance for reading this. I recently started using a older model of a laptop. this is a dell Latitude CPi. When i booted it up with windows 98 the screen resolution was awful. Right now the only options are 16 or 2 colors. I can only go to 640x480 resolution. I have...
June 8th 04 09:15 AM
by peter Go to last post
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URGENT HELP NEEDED !!!!!!!!!!!! LOW ON SPACE !!!!!!!!!!!! by Spottedfeather
I don't know what happened but I'm severely low on disk space. I was in the living room and had about 400 mb or so of space left. I shut the laptop off and went into my bedroom where I started the computer back up. Now, it tells me that I only have around 100 mb. What happened ? I tried to run...
June 17th 04 05:09 AM
by Jay Perez Go to last post
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DVD Burner by Carlos
New NU-Tech dvd burner can't see a blank disc. Its too early to give up on the burner. Are the some settings that I need to change? I using a 4-year old Pentium 3 system with Windows 98SE.
May 7th 04 09:13 PM
by AlmostBob Go to last post
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