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Transferring a hard drive by
ralph
I am trying to help someone over the phone who has some technical ability
with his 2 WIN98 (???SE) PC's. Unfortunately I have not used WIN 98 for a
very long time. His problem is that his Logitech PS2 mouse has stopped
working on PC #1. It works on other machines and it appears that the...
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win98 and MoveFileEx by
Jan Bruns
I'm using MoveFileEx in an app, target win98 and later.
On the german version of win98se, MoveFileEx may not work,
but can be imported from an executable, so it seems
I don't need to link (the ansi-version of) MoveFileEx
dynamically.
But I'm not sure if this is true for all versions of win98,
so...
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Looking for a boot disk by
David Miller 278990
I have no floppy drives anymore and I need to make a window 98 SE, Milenium
boot disk, my old one wore out. I have some old systems I am working on and
I use it a lot; but I never made more than 1 disk (dumb). I would make my
own, but I don't have a working system from that era to make a new...
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Defragmenting by
susancats42
I have Windows 98SE. I am attempting to use Maintenance Wizard. I will run
thru Disk Cleanup and Scan Disk fine, but the Defragmenting part of the
process seems to get stuck at 10%. I have had it running over night and still
all I get is 10%. Sometime I will see message file changed starting...
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October 28th 06 06:04 PM
by Alan
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need help restoring certificates by
Gary Roach
i've been having a problem running a zonealarm installation program - it
gives me validation errors. their forum gives instructions for dealing with
this but in my case they don't solve the problem. i've downloaded a
certificate from verisign called getrootcert.cer but when i install it i get
the...
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October 25th 06 03:34 AM
by glee
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Cannot Open Win98 files on WinXP machine by
Actual Food
I recently copied some files from my old Win98 PC onto a my new WinXP PC, but
I cannot open any of the files (doc/jpg/txt etc.) it just says 'Invalid file
format' or 'file not recognized'.
I've tried copying via floppy, mem stick, and putting the drive as a slave
in my new pc, but nothing works!...
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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...
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KT7A-RAID + 300GB Maxtor + Win98SE = no joy :( by
MalcolmO
The drive was aggressively priced; I had to have it.
I was fairly certain that my old Win98SE system wouldn't do the 300GB.
But I went to the Abit site and, after a few false starts, I managed to
flash my BIOS up to the 7N version. This is said to recognize drives
over 137GB.
Went into the...
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Mystery Laptop Problem, Compaq Presario 1060 by
Brad
Hi,
The laptop had a "stroke" while I was using it. Note: Windows booted up just
fine, then something happened. Everything "froze" and there was no response
to any input. I had to turn off the power. I disconnected power, removed the
battery pack, and waited. Later, when I turned on the...
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September 22nd 06 09:28 PM
by Brad
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Mystery Laptop Problem, Compaq Presario 1060 by
Brad
Hi,
Sorry I forgot to mention that I thoroughly cleaned both drives and
I do not smoke (very bad for your health).
INTERESTING FLOPPY DRIVE TEST:
I used a program called "Sector Access" and read a string (100) of sectors
starting at sector 00000000 (boot sector) into a file called...
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Can't get cloned disk to boot by
gord
I have installed a new 80GB HDD (recognized as Drive G:) onto which I have
cloned the OS from Drive C:. However when restarting the PC, the machine
will only boot if I leave the original C: in the system.
The new disk still has the drive letter G: assigned to it. I have used both
PowerQuest...
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September 21st 06 04:09 PM
by gord
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Mystery Laptop Problem, Compaq Presario 1060 by
Brad
Hi,
Mystery problem with Compaq Presario 1060 Laptop.
Note: I service TVs, etc., rarely service a computer.
PROBLEM (Hard Disk Drive is fine):
On the same day (no storm and it wasn't dropped) this laptop
started to have read/write problems with the floppy disk drive
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UPDATE: Same Type of Problem with both Floppy Drive & CD Rom Drive!!! by
Brad
Hi Ben,
Here is more information I forgot to mention:
This laptop had no trouble reading the "burned" CDs before this
trouble started. Note: I often used the CD drive to read a particular
"burned" CD. Now, it has trouble reading that CD.
Floppy drive problem, which started at the...
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September 17th 06 12:46 PM
by Brad
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UPDATE: Same Type of Problem with both Floppy Drive & CD Rom Drive!!! by
Brad
Hi,
Note: I cleaned both drives, floppy & CD, (Compaq Presario 1060 laptop
yr 1997) but problem remains. I used a "lab" type of power supply as
substitute for latpop's external power supply. Also, see original post below.
More tests made since my original post exposed something very...
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Floppy Drive from One Laptop to Another by
Brad
Hi,
The floppy drive, part # 261848-001, in my 1997 (abt.) Compaq Presario
1060 laptop is bad and there is no replacement available. Note: I service
TVs, etc., rarely computers. I have a floppy drive from another model Compaq
laptop, not the same part number, but it could fit in the space...
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ScanDisk found an error by
anna
I am a bit of a dummy when it comes to computer terminology, so i dont know
what this means or what to do. i am trying to run scan disk but am getting
this message" the 'C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs' folder contains incorrect
information about 'tvDebug.log'. The size of the file is idfferent from...
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Split large files without file size limitation by
[email protected]
http://www.gogsoft.com/060909/awo_filesplit.htm
I have just paid this software, this file splitter can split large
files (of any size or type), then easily rejoin without the use of this
software. easily break up large files (no limits, splits any sized
file) for copying to floppy or sending via...
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