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Old September 23rd 07, 11:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
attilathehun1
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Default Burning a CD

I just installed a hard drive as a back-up drive or slave in order to help my
friend get some data off of the drive. Now when I try to copy the files that
are selected, 43 selected items, it says that the disk is protected. This
drive is a 6 GB older drive Maxtor. He was having problems with an error
coming, error #3343 if I recall correctly. Now this drive my friend was using
was the only drive in the PC and was being used as a master. So, I figured if
I installed it as a slave I could get around the error message that wouldn't
allow him to get past booting it. Well, it worked. I have it installed in my
PC that is running Window 98 SE because his PC was running Windows 98 also. I
don't think it matters though if I'm using it as a slave what OS is running
on it, right? I didn't want to take the chance. That's why both OS are
Windows 98.
I don't understand what I have to do to burn this CD. Copy or should Cut
and then Paste it somewhere, if so, where would I paste it? I need some help
here.
I've built my share of PCs and fix many more. But when it comes to burning
CDs I'm kinda a noobie.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, attilathehun1


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Old September 24th 07, 07:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Ron Badour
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Default Burning a CD

You need burner software (DirectCD, Nero or one of the many others)
installed and then you follow the directions for that software. There is no
burner capability native to W98.

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"attilathehun1" wrote in message
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I just installed a hard drive as a back-up drive or slave in order to help
my
friend get some data off of the drive. Now when I try to copy the files
that
are selected, 43 selected items, it says that the disk is protected. This
drive is a 6 GB older drive Maxtor. He was having problems with an error
coming, error #3343 if I recall correctly. Now this drive my friend was
using
was the only drive in the PC and was being used as a master. So, I figured
if
I installed it as a slave I could get around the error message that
wouldn't
allow him to get past booting it. Well, it worked. I have it installed in
my
PC that is running Window 98 SE because his PC was running Windows 98
also. I
don't think it matters though if I'm using it as a slave what OS is
running
on it, right? I didn't want to take the chance. That's why both OS are
Windows 98.
I don't understand what I have to do to burn this CD. Copy or should Cut
and then Paste it somewhere, if so, where would I paste it? I need some
help
here.
I've built my share of PCs and fix many more. But when it comes to burning
CDs I'm kinda a noobie.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, attilathehun1


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attilathehun1



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Old September 24th 07, 10:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
James
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Default Burning a CD

Ron Badour wrote:
You need burner software (DirectCD, Nero or one of the many others)
installed and then you follow the directions for that software. There is no
burner capability native to W98.

If it is only a 6G drive & if you have space on your drive it would be
faster to import the data to your drive in a folder identified for your
friend. Then put the new drive in as a slave also, after it has been
setup on your friends machine, & just transfer the files back. You
could also do it directly to the new drive if they were both in your
machine at the same time. If any of the drives are partitioned extra
attention needs to be paid to the drive letters and which physical drive
they really reside on. Win98 assigns the letters and they cannot be
changed the way they can in Win2k, NT, XP, etc. Do not wipe the files
off the old drive until you know they are all checked good on the new
drive whether they are transferred (drive to cd to drive) or (drive to
drive). Things can happen.

Win98 assigns the letters as C for the primary partition on the first
boot drive then D, E, etc. for the primary partitions on each of the
additional physical drives. After all primary partitions have been
given a drive letter W98 comes back and looks at all the logical drives
in the extended partition of the first drive (if it has been
partitioned) then goes to the 2nd drive etc. Not complicated once you
know about it but if you do not you will want to google (drive
partitioning) and read up on it. Most drives are all one volume under
windows which is very wasteful of space for the larger drives.
Partitioning into smaller drives (logical on the one physical drive not
physical drives) provides much better use of the space. A 1 byte
(character) file on a large drive can take as much as 64,0000 bytes of
space. The system has many hundreds of files less than 2,000 bytes in
size resulting in a huge waste of space. Making a smaller partition can
reduce this to 2,000 bytes, or less, per file. If a file is 2,500 bytes
in size it would take 4,000 bytes of space. These are rounded and not
the true number actually assigned. All of this depends on the OS being
run and the format being used on the disk. A 2Gig drive can be reduced
to on 512 Bytes while 24Gig would be 4,000 Bytes & 98Gig would be 16,000
Bytes, etc. These represent the minimum amount of drive space allocated
per file. Larger files will take as many allocated spaces as are needed
for the size of the file with the remaining amount of the last allocated
space being left empty.

This may be a long read but it gives you an alternative & possibilities
for the future.

James
 




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