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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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floppy disc return factory settings by
sa
Hi,
I formatted a floppy disc.
It was already empty.
Is there a way to unformat, return factory settings, make completely empty?
Thanks
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My laptop tries to boot with the floppy drive by
Brian in Alabama
Something has changed with my laptop. When I reboot after it has been off
for awhile, like overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy drive and I get
"operating system not found". Changing the boot option to the hard drive
does no good. If I install the System Disk 1, change the boot option to...
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Hard disk problem:bios and win98 cannot see it, linux does by
pablo
Hi. I have a Western Digital WDC400 full of data, and after some hardware
failures of my MoBo I could not access to it anymore (I've changed the MoBo)
After trying every posible configuration (master, slave, alone , in another
computer), bios does not detect it.
Today I 've tried an old red hat...
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April 20th 06 01:14 AM
by philo
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Copy specific folders by
JRGunn
I have a directory with over 600 folders. I want to copy about 200 of these
folders with names that all start with the letter K(incl all subfolders and
files) I tried xcopy c:\directoy\K???? d:\directory /s/v but it didn't work.
Is their a syntax that will work or is there another way to do a batch...
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Replacement IDE cables by
mdp
Alan wrote:
To try and resolve repeated random problems, I have been advised by
the hard drive manufacturer to replace the Primary IDE cable. The
existing cable supplied with the motherboard is a 80-conductor ribbon
cable for UltraDMA/66/100/133 so technically I do believe I have the
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April 15th 06 09:31 AM
by Alan
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April 4th 06 11:21 AM
by Eric
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How to set Disk Clean up automatically at startup? by
Eric
Does anyone know how to set Disk Clean up automatically at startup?
I have tried to paste a shortcut for Disk Clean up at Start up, but it
always request to select a drive before performing any task. Does anyone know
how to set the drive and let the Disk Clean up run automatically without...
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April 2nd 06 04:34 AM
by glee
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Recovering Drivespace 3 compressed disks by
NormW
My daughters PC, which was running windows 98, recently died. The machine had
one small hard drive which was compressed using drivespace 3. I need to
recover her college research papers which are stored on this hard drive. I
can take the drive out of her machine and temporarily install it on...
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March 31st 06 10:12 PM
by philo
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CDR drive not accessible by
Patti-M
My CD-RW drive worked just fine until a few days ago. It recognized all CD-
Rs and CD-RWs , but now
it simply stopped working. When the drawer is opened, the light comes on,
but when I insert a CD-R or CD-RW I get the message "Q is not accessible.
The device is not ready." I clicked on the...
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March 30th 06 03:28 PM
by glee
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Threat by mystery file by
Ronjay
A couple of spyware searches indicated that the follow file with a font
extension is a severe threat. It shows the location as
C/windows/fonts/acrsecI.fon. I have been unable to locate such a file so I
can remove it. None of the fonts show up with this name. I haven't
registered the spyware...
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March 23rd 06 02:44 AM
by glee
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Can't write/save Word 2000 documents to a 1 GB Lexmar USB flash drive/stick? by
Ant
Hello,
I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite
laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM).
He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents
to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it
opened and saved on...
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March 22nd 06 07:21 AM
by Ant
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