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Hard Drive assignment letters by
Jerry Bank[_2_]
My primary hard disc has 8 partitions (C-J). I have a cd/dvd unit (K).
I also have a removable hard disc with two partitions, which is attached
via a usb port.
When I attach the usb disc it becomes L and M, which is fine. However,
if it is attached when I start up, the first partition on the...
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Win98 Files Upgraded to XP by
Piwowar
I recently upgraded my windows from 98 to XP. In my impatience I completly
forgot to backup any files or do any major preparation for an upgrade. My old
documents are now gone and I was wondering if there is any possible way to
retreive them be it downgrading back to 98 or something of that...
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July 3rd 07 01:33 AM
by philo
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Compressed drives by
Chris Watts
My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service - BIOS
problem I think.
I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and connected
it to my XP Pro laptop.
The drive has several partitions on it, most of which are FAT32 or FAT -
these are all readable.
But one...
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February 18th 07 05:02 PM
by philo
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lost files I need to find on win install CD why search will not find them? by
DJW
I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff)
I did a clean install from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web
cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally
got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing
vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd &...
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Disk active led stays on steady by
Jake
Hi all,
Urgent question
Running a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the original disk Fujitsu 10Gig is about to die
Trying to replace with a 30Gig Hitachi Travelstar IC25N030A
Formatted, did clean install Win98SE
Boots to windows, boots to DOS
The disk led stays on steady, even in DOS when the machine is...
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July 7th 04 04:30 PM
by Jake
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Generic Low Level HDD Formatter by
Brad
Hi,
I would like to perform a low level format on a Western Digital 3.2G
HDD. Note: "Format", that comes with the OS, only does high level formatting.
Do you know where I can get a generic low level HDD formatter program?
Thanks in advance, Brad
Before you type your password, credit card...
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Physical Heads vs "Logical" Heads by
Brad
Hi,
I have a HDD with 16 physical heads according to the label
on the HDD. When this HDD was installed, partitioned, formatted,
etc., a "Block Information" program shows this HDD has "128"
heads, which I assume to be "logical" heads. What "logical"
heads would physical head "0" (zero based)...
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create drive in free space by
cammos
Hello Newsgroups
I am mainly familiar with Win2K and WinXP installs, so
when I get a Win98 box to fix, I am oftened stumbled.
The case:
I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all
the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with
tools, but in the end the only practical way...
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Perplexed over sudden Full Disk by
LA
For some reason, my C disk is suddenly full when
previously there was 1 GB of memory free. The capacity on
this disk is 4.75 GB and it is saying I have used 4.7 (up
from 3.7 previously). I haven't downloaded anything
recently except for ie6, which isn't even close to that
size. I don't know much...
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July 13th 04 02:25 AM
by LA
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PNY Attache 256 MB USB 2.0 flash drive by
Mark Klebanoff
I bought the above mentioned drive last week, and downloaded the Win98
drivers (M20.zip) from PNY's website. I unzipped the file and ran the
..exe with no apparent problem. However, when I insert the flash drive,
W98 detects is and tries to find the drivers, but can't find anything
that is...
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getting around RAM requirement for broadband? by
Nikko
I just did a reinstall of 98SE for a friend. I'm trying to set up her
broadband service, but the DSL SetUp says the minimum RAM requirement is 64
MB. She only has 32 MB, and it's an old laptop, so upgrading isn't a viable
option. She has been able to use DSL on this machine with 98 before...
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June 18th 04 05:34 AM
by will
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VMM32.VXD what to do?? by
DAVE
i am running WIN 98SE on a 166 PC,, ( i had it rebuilt
and was running great for 2 weeks)
i shut it off after every use and was using just for
internet.
so when i started up tonite i get this error message.
"cannot start Windows. because VMM32.VXD was not found or
is damaged. need to run setup...
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will not defrag by
eliz
system stuck on "checking for errors". It goes from 0% to
1% then back to 0% complete. why? What can I do to get it
to defrag. thanks a bunch in advance.
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May 17th 04 04:27 AM
by
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cant use 98 cd and floppy at same time by
spence
I am trying to install win 98 on a 95 laptop, formatted
the hard drive etc but how can I install 98 if I have to
switch drives (completely take out floppy to put in 98SE
disk. is there a solution? a friend told me there is a
way to copy the floppy to the hd then start but how?
help greatly...
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Mystery Win. 98 Disk by
JR
I have two Dell computers that both came preinstalled with
Win98. I now need to reformat one of them, but I can only
find one CD and I don't know which one it is. I have a
product key for both computers.
I saw this in another post:
"US customers can contact Microsoft at: 1 800 642-7676.
They...
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Disk write errors by
Bob Ninow
I am working on a problem for a friend from church and
have never encountered a problem such as the one about to
be described.
Sometimes when the system is booting a "Disk write error.
Unable to write to the disk drive c:" message is
displayed. The error dialog box provides an OK button
which...
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June 6th 04 07:00 PM
by Murray
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Drive Not Accessible by
George
Suddenly I cannot use my CDRom. All I get is a message
saying "J:\is not accessible. The device is not ready".
Device Manager says it is working properly but it isn't? I
cannot load any new software now so I am really stuck.
Anyone got any suggestions please?
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June 17th 04 03:19 PM
by George
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scan disk and defrag,too by
crystal
Scandisk tells me I have an error and, once it begins to
repair it, I get another error that says "An error
occured while scan disk was attempting to correct the
previous error. Complete a thorough check of this drive,
then run scan disk again and choose to conduct a standard
test". When I do this...
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Change to Slave by
Matt
Im Havin problems booting my my WIN98SE computer. It
keeps pulling a "Windows Protection Error" on me. I tried
many of the steps in in KB article 188867 and article
302956 (except disabling items in Device manager and
dealing with TSR's). So, I tried to replace my current
slave drive on my WINME...
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Win98 Not recognising 80Gb HDD by
Matt
Hi All,
I could use some help, please:
I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS
but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I
get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive?
Thanks in Advance
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