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XP Vista & Office Cheap! by Mamiko
XP Home US$19, Pro US$29 Vista US$29 Up MS Office US$49 Up
January 7th 09 12:57 PM
by Mamiko Go to last post
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formatting a USB Hard Drive by adami
How can be formatted an added external USB Hard Drive on a PC with WIN 98SE system? In 98SE at the DOS/fdisk command menu there is no option to switch to Drive 2 to start the formatting procedure. Must the new hard drive be formatted before installing the USB2.0\WIN 98 Disk Driver software on the...
June 11th 04 03:07 PM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
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Not enough free memory to defragment drive by Old Silverbeard
Despite having 1GB of RAM with 70% free resources I get an error message stating I have insufficient free memory whenever I try to use Disk Defragmenter. I have tried closing down all applications and have also tried running in Safe Mode to defrag. but the same error message appears. The HDD I am...
June 5th 05 12:07 AM
by Bill Blanton Go to last post
3 2,382
Boot failure by astroview120mm
My windows 98 computer won't boot because it can not read drive C. Any advice on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -astroview120mm
May 5th 07 11:36 PM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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Ide Controller Drivers not loading by Simon
I have a Win98SE PC, fitted with 2 hardrives (1 x Primary Master, 1 x Primary Slave) and a CD-Rom on Secondary Prinary. This config has been working fine, until suddenly the D: is not accesable in Windows. Device Manager shows a yellow "!" on the IDE Controller, and it only shows one hard drive,...
May 10th 04 08:41 PM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
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defrag improvement. by Gerry Cornell
A phenomenon I have observed in Windows XP is that when I compact in = Outlook Express before running Disk Defragmenter then file fragmentation = is less when Disk Defragmenter analyses the disk. ~~~~~~ Hope this helps.
May 6th 04 12:28 AM
by Gerry Cornell Go to last post
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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...
April 20th 06 01:14 AM
by philo Go to last post
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Slave Hard Disk Visible to BIOS but not Windows by MIG
My scenario is as follows. Pentium III with Windows 98 that I want to use for backup storage. Secondary IDE has CD/DVD player as master and CD writer as slave. Primary IDE has 18 GB hard disk as master, which it boots from but is too small for storage. For an experiment, I stuck a 2 GB hard...
January 27th 08 08:50 AM
by James Go to last post
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Windows 98 Replacement Disk by Reese
Can anyone tell me how or where I can get another windows 98 system cd? Mine is cracked in half. I can't run anything because I was in the middle of reinstallation and it cracked while spinning in the cd-rom. 6 year old disk, and I never made a back-up. What was I thinking. Now now one even has...
June 5th 04 07:57 PM
by Jon_Hildrum Go to last post
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Bad Hard drive or doing something wrong? by DJW
I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on ebay. I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made from a download from their site. All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it...
November 30th 06 03:53 PM
by Babs Go to last post
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compatibility issues with Vista by BobVanS
My customer is starting to upgrade their pc's to Windows Vista. In the past, under XP and using Excel, they provided a tab-delimited file as input to my inkjet system that uses Windows 98. No problem! Now under Vista, using Excel (2007) I can read the file, but it doesn't recognize it as...
August 4th 07 04:45 PM
by Gary S. Terhune[_2_] Go to last post
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Flash drives by Curt Christianson
Hi Brad, It seems to me that just a couple of days ago someone wanted to try something similar. Unfortunately, I didn't pay it any mind. :( I would get busy contacting the various mobo mfgrs. and see if they have something to fit the bill. -- HTH, Curt
January 18th 08 09:41 PM
by Gary S. Terhune[_2_] Go to last post
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OT but Important: Usenet Abuse and Impersonation by a sick individual using IP address 34.4.88.47 by Radium
Hi: To all respective forum readers, please take notice: 1) First of all, my apologies for such a wide off-topic cross- posting. It's unusual, and very frowned upon. But I deem it necessary in lieu of recent events. You can just disregard if you will. 2) There is a user on the net who has...
September 6th 07 03:32 AM
by Radium Go to last post
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System Performance Problem by Ellis Hillinger
I have a performance problem with my Win 98 system. It is a Dell with a P III / 550 MHz and 128 MB memory with 700 MB of free disk space. The symptom often seems to be certain web sites that hang for no reason. I believe I finally traced it to another problem today. On occasions after the...
June 30th 04 03:36 AM
by Ellis Hillinger Go to last post
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Most Common Problem With Floppy Disk Drives by Brad
Hi, I have three computers that developed problems with reading floppy disks. Note: This problem occurred at a different time for each computer. What is the most common problem with floppy disk drives? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password,...
January 25th 07 12:02 AM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Windows 98 CD has been snaped in half by
Could you please tell me if it means buying a whole new CD or wether a can get a replacement.
September 14th 04 01:36 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Unable to delete files or format hard drive by dcgapg
Anytime I delete a file from my slave hard drive it doesn't get deleted. Also if I format the hard drive, either through Windows or in DOS it doesn't erase the information on the hard drive. Right now on the drive it has a capacity of 7.82GB, 703mb used and 7.13GB free but the problem is it's a...
June 29th 04 04:09 AM
by Steve Baron - KB3MM Go to last post
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Wish to access 2nd hard disk (probably NTFS) data in WIN98 by Joe[_3_]
Something on my old HP's motherboard lost it. I took out the hard disk and plugged it into an older Compaq as a slave to the Compaq's drive. The Compaq's motherboard had no problem with that, the HP's hard disk is present with a letter and the disk capacity is recognized. However, only one...
May 10th 08 08:56 PM
by Gary S. Terhune[_2_] Go to last post
2 2,309
Floppy Disk Drive by DaffyD®
Can I ask a question about a floppy disk drive in this ng or is it just for hdd issues? -- { : =( DaffyD® If I knew where I was I'd be there now.
December 22nd 07 01:28 AM
by Gary S. Terhune[_2_] Go to last post
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UPDATE: Most Common Problem With Floppy Disk Drives by Brad
Hi, One problem floppy drive in a laptop, I hear a "wine" noise (belt slip) during an attempt to read a floppy. I removed the floppy drive and checked it. I removed the belt and cleaned it with a rubber cleaner/revitalizer. Afterwards, no more "wine" noise and the floppy drive can read/write...
February 13th 07 01:57 AM
by James Go to last post
2 2,305
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