Forum: General
April 19th 07, 05:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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New hard drive, now Win98 won't install
Could be I suppose, seems I remember something along those lines when
multi
booting...
seems there was something about the boot manager used also..
What Linux, did you say?
Sorry...
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Forum: General
April 19th 07, 02:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 8
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New hard drive, now Win98 won't install
Downloaded the material [pdfs and DMI file] for the puter, seems it came
with some CDs including something similar to a restore CD/configuration
setup.
Did you use that to setup the...
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Forum: General
April 17th 07, 09:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 8
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New hard drive, now Win98 won't install
Sorry, more details, and update. I wiped the drive, started over. Created a
4GB partition near the top of the drive because I need most of the space for
my XP partition - I've managed my computers...
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Forum: General
April 17th 07, 08:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 8
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New hard drive, now Win98 won't install
Here is a good one for you. I have a Toshiba Satellite s173-1415. I've had
it for years, and have dual booted to Win98 and XP all this time, no
problem. I even found display drivers for the oddball...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 09:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,441
Hey Guys
Can you tell us what Windows XP has that Windows 2000 doesn't?
Better Stability. Without exception, every system I upgraded from Win2000 to
XP exhibited noticeably better stability.
As for NT4...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 09:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,441
Hey Guys
"Zootal" Don't send me any freaking spam at zootal dot com remove the don't
send me any freaking spam wrote in message
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Yet more excuses...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 08:35 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,441
Hey Guys
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Yet more excuses for your lack of knowledge of the NT platform. Even with
all its bugs, as released Windows 2000 was a very stable operating system
and much more capable than Windows...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 07:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,539
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 07:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,441
Hey Guys
MVPs tend to be Microsoft apologists.
You have a VERY polite way of saying things.
No, I can be quite the ass at times, depending on my motivation. I'm not
always interested in winning...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 05:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,441
Hey Guys
MVPs tend to be Microsoft apologists. They have to if they want to keep
their MVP status. And reading the Vista general ng makes me glad I'm
sticking to XP and Win98. I have an old PIII/850 still...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 05:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,323
Using large HDD on Win98
There's no such upper boundary in W98. The theoretical maximum size for
FAT32 partitions is 2TB. An unpatched W98 installation has a problem with
IDE disks bigger than about 128GB, but, since...
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Forum: General
April 2nd 07, 05:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,539
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