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March 25th 06 04:03 PM
by peifengjiang Go to last post
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Repair W98 by Anton
More than scandisk and chkdsk? "Anton" skrev i meddelandet news:... Can it be done as in W2k/VP and how?
May 18th 08 02:43 PM
by Don Phillipson[_5_] Go to last post
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Cannot read error by Wally Wombat
Hi I am putting an old i430vx system together,( I know, I must be crazy). Everything has gone ok windows 98 has loaded, no conflicts, no yellow flags. However I get an error message when trying to copy files from the floppy A. It obviously opens to show the files, but when I try to copy the file...
July 30th 07 05:12 PM
by Gary S. Terhune[_2_] Go to last post
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Good News Mr 142.179.22.210 flood microsoft.public.win98.disks.general by Michael Yardley
Cox and Telus will not act unless they have a police file number so you may as well flood microsoft.public.win98.disks.general my home Usenet group. have a nice day.Me I am nearing about TrueCrype -- Just requiring until a percent in charge of the tennis is too labour for Marian to manage it. ...
July 30th 07 11:28 PM
by Michael Yardley Go to last post
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Is there an easy way to upgrade a hard drive without a working installCD? by SlickRCBD[_2_]
I want to upgrade the hard drive in a win98SE machine, possibly creating multiple boot options with XP and Linux available, but my OEM-supplied CD is broken. I have a generic Win98 CD, but I don't have the drivers for my computer, and I'm unsure which drivers I'd need to redownload, and if I...
December 29th 07 09:51 PM
by SlickRCBD[_2_] Go to last post
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"clink" sound on shutdown from newly installed notebook HDD (Seagate - ST96023A) - please help by Adam
I just replaced my notebook HDD (Fujitsu - MHK2120AT) with a new HDD (Seagate - ST96023A). But now, I am hearing a slight "clink" sound on shutdown. Is this normal?
July 12th 06 03:28 PM
by Adam Go to last post
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Drive F: not accessible in 98. Ok in XP by Labrat
I'm running a Dual-boot 98SE/WinXp Pro setup. Two HDs. A 200G Maxtor with an 80G WD. The 80G used to hold my 98 Then I purchased the 200G, partitioned (4) and cloned 98 to the first partition, installed XP Home to the second and voila. I had a functioning dual-boot rig. After big problems...
December 4th 06 06:29 AM
by Labrat Go to last post
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Continued - Windows Explorer is slow reading directories by Mario
Would appreciate any tips or suggestion on where to start tracking this down. Thanks. Petre. Hi Petre, A coupld of years back I had the same problem when opening Windows Explorer.
May 11th 04 11:37 PM
by Mario Go to last post
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What happens if I use an ATA-33 cable on an ATA-66 ulta system by SlickRCBD[_3_]
This might not be the right forum, as this is more of an eIDE question than a Windows one, but I wasn't 100 percent sure that the problem was the hard drive, but it might have been the cable or worse the port. I got a "new" drive and a "new" cable from a friend who has several dead computers that...
September 11th 09 09:02 AM
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February 9th 08 12:37 AM
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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...
May 18th 06 12:10 AM
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cd drive wont load recovery disk by madmommy63
my cd drive will not load the recovery disk, but will load other cd's when i put it in, it starts to load, i can hear it, but then it stops and nothing happens, i use my cd cleaner, i know my disk is good cause i just used it 2 months ago and i put it back in its case and into my file cabnit. any...
May 14th 04 12:51 PM
by madmommy63 Go to last post
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Boot Disk lost.. by Ted Gervais
I lost my boot disk for Win98 Millenium. How do I get a new one. I have lots for Win98SE. But I believe they won't work (fully) for the Millenium version?? Anyone please?
November 28th 06 12:51 AM
by philo Go to last post
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Disk controller not loading, hard drive not seen by PeteV
Hi! Please, if there is anyone familiar with this problem ... I do have IBM ThinkPad 570/Win98SE with Intel 440 chipset, and now after a Windows repair "re-upgrade" round I have lost the Generic Disk Drive entry from the Device Manager due to the IDE Controller loading problem. I have already...
September 27th 05 12:45 AM
by PeteV Go to last post
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Can't re-format, drive contains files in use by windows. by Isaac
I'm trying to re-format my w98 hard drive by right clicking the C: drive and clicking format. Once I do this I get the following message: Windows cannot format this drive because it contains files in use by windows. It doesn't tell me which files or how to fix this. If anyone knows a solution...
May 10th 04 03:31 AM
by Isaac Go to last post
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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...
April 2nd 06 04:34 AM
by glee Go to last post
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cant format by BR&Y
im trying to reformat to reinstall on a clean disk i used the fdisc tool and now need to format the disk but when i type formatc: i get a" bad command or file name message" ,i also tried extractebd.cabformat.com but get the same result i have the boot disk and the install cd what can i do to get...
May 15th 04 03:05 AM
by Jeannette Lombardoczi Go to last post
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secondary ide controller by rosie
i am having trouble running my disks onto my pc when i try to install a new software disk i can hear it running but it does not come up on screen i have looked into the devise manager and it says all the drivers are not installed can anyone help thanks
June 2nd 04 11:06 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Scan Disk Defrag stop - Disk Surface Corrupted? by Laura Lee
After a recommended driver update, Scan Disk and Defrad stopped working. I attempted to run a Defrag by another application (System Mechanics) and I get a warning message that it encountered a problem indicating physical corruption on the disk surface. I run System File Checker and I got news that...
May 20th 04 08:56 AM
by philo Go to last post
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May 6th 04 12:21 PM
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