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Forum: General August 26th 06, 11:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 24
Views: 2,749
Posted By Mathers
Message for Bill Blanton

OK, the drive is off to get recovered. Can we address the IDE controller
issue. In response to your question below, the only way I can boot normally
is to have all IDE devices unplugged from the...
Forum: General August 22nd 06, 03:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 24
Views: 2,749
Posted By Mathers
Message for Bill Blanton

Ouch! That stings a little bit. The thing that blows is that I was trying
things of other peoples suggestions. My problems deffinently got worse the
more I followed the direction of some people...
Forum: General August 17th 06, 11:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 24
Views: 2,749
Posted By Mathers
Message for Bill Blanton

Everything went fine for fricken once. I have the txt file. Where should I
post it or would you like it emailed?

"Bill Blanton" wrote:

I still don't see it using my newsreader (OE). However, I...
Forum: General August 17th 06, 10:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 24
Views: 2,749
Posted By Mathers
Message for Bill Blanton

I wondered if the thread was too deep so lets go from here. I'll try the
steps u reccomended and get back to you.

"Bill Blanton" wrote:

I still don't see it using my newsreader (OE). However, I...
Forum: General August 16th 06, 09:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,292
Posted By Mathers
copy drive info to external drive

I've installed xxcopy but don't know how to answer through the first question
it asks. Can you tell me how these questions need to be answered so it
executes what I want to have done. Copy...
Forum: General August 16th 06, 09:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,292
Posted By Mathers
copy drive info to external drive

I've tried deleting it by command in dos: "d:\ del command.com". It tells me
that I don't have access.

"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"Mathers" wrote in message
...
Forum: General August 16th 06, 09:11 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 24
Views: 2,749
Posted By Mathers
Message for Bill Blanton

reposted as you requested under origional thread


"Bill Blanton" wrote:

"Mathers" wrote in message ...
...
Forum: General August 16th 06, 06:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,292
Posted By Mathers
copy drive info to external drive

All that shows on the internal HD through windows is command.com so I can't
drag and drop. I just want to copy all of the drives contents over. If I copy
command.com over to the external drive,...
Forum: General August 16th 06, 05:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,292
Posted By Mathers
copy drive info to external drive

I'll give it a shot. Thanks

"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"Mathers" wrote in message
...

I've had...
Forum: General August 16th 06, 05:11 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 24
Views: 2,749
Posted By Mathers
Message for Bill Blanton

Why did you stop responding to my post with the IDE controller problem. I've
replied to your partinfo question almost a week ago and nothing back. Am I on
my own now or what?
Forum: General August 16th 06, 04:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 2,292
Posted By Mathers
copy drive info to external drive

I've had recent problems with my secong hard drive. I'm wanting to reformat
the drive but want to copy the contents over to an external HD. I can only
boot into safemode so I'm wondering if through...
Forum: Improving Performance August 13th 06, 04:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 14
Views: 3,128
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

Here's the two messages I replied to Bill with on Aug. 9th:
"It sees 80GB capacity. Do I run the overlay program from the western digital
set up cd? I can't get Windows to boot normally with my IDE...
Forum: Improving Performance August 13th 06, 04:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 14
Views: 3,128
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

Here's the two messages I replied to Bill with on Aug. 9th:
"It sees 80GB capacity. Do I run the overlay program from the western digital
set up cd? I can't get Windows to boot normally with my IDE...
Forum: Improving Performance August 11th 06, 04:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 14
Views: 3,128
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

I've replied TWICE to Bills last post with partinfo and stated that I can
only get the machine to boot into safemode with the drive plugged in. And
when running partinfo in safemode with the drive...
Forum: Improving Performance August 11th 06, 04:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 14
Views: 3,128
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

I've replied TWICE to Bills last post with partinfo and stated that I can
only get the machine to boot into safemode with the drive plugged in. And
when running partinfo in safemode with the drive...
Forum: Improving Performance August 10th 06, 07:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 14
Views: 3,128
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

It's kinda hard to post the partinfo for the drive in question when I can't
get the machine to start up with the damn drive plugged in. Now, I'm open to
you helping me so either help or don't...
Forum: Improving Performance August 10th 06, 07:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 14
Views: 3,128
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

It's kinda hard to post the partinfo for the drive in question when I can't
get the machine to start up with the damn drive plugged in. Now, I'm open to
you helping me so either help or don't...
Forum: Improving Performance August 9th 06, 06:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 0
Views: 903
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

I can only restart my computer normally when unplugging both of my IDE
Controllers from the mother board. I can start up in safemode. How do I fix
this so I can reboot normally with both...
Forum: Improving Performance August 9th 06, 06:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
Replies: 14
Views: 3,128
Posted By Mathers
Start up problem

I can only restart my computer normally when unplugging both of my IDE
Controllers from the mother board. I can start up in safemode. How do I fix
this so I can reboot normally with both...
Forum: General August 4th 06, 12:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 6,901
Posted By Mathers
Primary IDE Controller Error

Can't format d: drive. Have five years of portfolio work that I need. Per
Bills post yesterday, and my response to his, do you have any suggestions? I
think I need to run the setup.exe for my WD...
Forum: General August 3rd 06, 04:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 6,901
Posted By Mathers
Primary IDE Controller Error

My BIOS sees the 80Gb drive. And yes, I used WD setup when installing the
drive.

"Bill Blanton" wrote:

If you ran "a:\fdisk /mbr", and there was a drive overlay/manager installed
to allow full...
Forum: General August 3rd 06, 12:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 6,901
Posted By Mathers
Primary IDE Controller Error

Hey, I found the website that began all these problems when my cd drives
weren't working. Through the command line I ran:
a:\fdisk\mbr
a:\sys.com c:

Don't know if that helps at all or maybe just...
Forum: General August 2nd 06, 11:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 6,901
Posted By Mathers
Primary IDE Controller Error

Forgot to inform that when viewing option 4 in fdisk it only shows c: but
when I choose option 5 it shows drive 1 and drive 2. Drive 2 reports the
wrong size still but it gives me the option to...
Forum: General August 2nd 06, 11:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 6,901
Posted By Mathers
Primary IDE Controller Error

Here's the update. I was able to get windows to load once with both
controllers unhooked. With both controllers hooked up and running fdisk from
a floppy, it only shows the c: drive. No drive d: at...
Forum: General August 1st 06, 07:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 6,901
Posted By Mathers
Primary IDE Controller Error

Thanks for the help! I feel like we might be onto something. Sys.com has been
run on drive 2 already. Was ran from a previous issue suggested by a website
that I googled. It said to run fdisk and...
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