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June 2nd 08 03:54 PM
by Brad
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"Initial" Track on CD Rom Disk (Physical Stop or "Seek") by
Brad
Hi,
Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the right direction with regards
to the "initial" track position (inside) when you first insert a data CD.
Another very important question: Is there a physical "stop" that
stops the head (the head moves toward the center of the CD and "hits"
a physical...
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Starting Position of a Data CD Disk by
Brad
Hi,
I have been told that a data cd (also audio cd) is
first "read" from the middle track. Another person told me
that it is first "read" from the inside track. I always thought
it was first read from the outside (near the edge) track.
Can someone, who really knows, tell me where the
first...
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Controller or Hardware Defect by
Brad
Hi,
I have a Quantum "Fireball" 1.2GB HDD that went
bad. I got a message regarding a problem with the
"controller". I swapped the controller (same controller)
from a similar HDD and I still get the same message.
I am trying to recover some files on the HDD. Could
a hardware fault cause a...
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February 7th 06 01:44 PM
by Jonny
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Using Flash (Thumb) Drive via Floppy Boot Disk by
Brad
Hi,
Has anyone used a flash drive ("thumb" drive) after booting a computer
using a floppy boot disk (A: drive)?
Note: Windows is not launched. I want to transfer "stuff" from C: drive
to the flash drive.
Thanks in advance, Brad
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March 14th 08 02:25 AM
by ungali
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CD Rom Drive Problem (more info) by
Brad
Hi,
See my original post below.
The only problem (major problem) with the CD Rom drive is the initial
access when I first insert a data CD rom (or audio CD), even when laptop
is on for awhile and warmed up. I have to insert it many times before I
finally have access (if I am lucky). Note: Each...
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Can't Access D: Logical Drive (extended partition) by
Brad
Hi,
I removed a 800MB hdd, with two partitions (two logical drives), from one
computer and put it in an older Compaq 386 computer. Both computers have
the same MsDos 6.22 systems. The 386 can access all the space in "C:" drive,
but when I try to access "D:" drive, I get an "invalid drive...
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August 15th 04 04:58 AM
by glee
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Using Flash (Thumb) Drive via Floppy Boot Disk by
Brad
Hi Gary,
What OS can you launch off a CD, that allows you to use a flash drive?
Thanks in advance, Brad
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:57:40 -0800, in microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
you wrote:
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Formatting a 20G HDD, One Partition, With Small Size Clusters by
Brad
Hi,
I installed a 20G HDD in my Windows 98se computer. With one partition,
I formatted it. The results is 16K byte clusters. With a FAT32 system,
a 32 bit number ("index") can represent around 4.3G. This in effect should
allow around 4 billion clusters maximum.
The major reason for a...
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June 2nd 08 03:54 PM
by Brad
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win98 by
Brad Jackson
I installed a slaved 80gig HD because the primary HD had
gotten to small. Win 98 recognizes C drive and the new D
drive but but does not recognize the now e and f cdrom and
cd/rw. The two cds are connected directly to the
motherboard (Gateway).
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System disk with CD support by
Bradley
I have an older laptop running Win 98 SE. It is totally unusable do to
Spyware problems. I've tried every method that I've been able to find, but
the system has basically ground to a halt - it's unusable. I'm planning to
wipe the hard disk and re-install the OS. I need to make a bootable...
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Uninstalling Windows 98 by
Brandy
I tried uninstalling Windows 98 with the same CD-Rom I
installed it with. But there is a message saying that the
CD-Rom Disk is from an older version of Windows than the
one I am presently using. So, setup functionality from
the disk is being disabled, not allowing me to uninstall
it!!!! Any...
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Help!!! by
Brenda
Help! I have two computers. One is a Compaq Deskpro EN
which had Windows 2000 professional on it. I bought the
computer second hand but was given no boot disk or
otherwise. I don't have a product key for OS. The problem
is that I was having severe problems with the computer to
where I had to format...
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download win98 by
Brenda
I have the same problem but I need to download it to disks
to install on my other computer. I have my ser. # but
can't find a download.
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Beeps when copying from one fixed drive to another fixed drive by
Brent
I have a laptop with Windows 98. It has 3 seperate partitions as it will not
support a hard drive larger than 2 GB. I have tried to copy files from one
drive partition to another and the computer speaker will beep and the file
will not even attempt to copy or move. I have an external drive and I...
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scan disk will not run by
Bri
I'm working on a clients machine and scan disk will not
load. Already ran spyware removal.
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July 20th 04 10:58 PM
by Bri
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scsi drive-don't want to lose data by
brian
i have a scsi drive running on win98 and another scsi
drive with all of my data i want to install into the same
computer. The computer used to be run on windows 95 but is
upgraded to win98.
I installed the drive but don't know how to make the
computer reccognize it.
Help
brian
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Full Disk by
Brian
Hi, hopefully someone can help, I am running Windows 98,
and usually when I try to connect to AOL, a dialog box
comes up and tells me that my hard drive is full and that
it needs to empty some files, so I do, but my drive is
nowhere near full. Also, this sometimes occurs during
boot up. I check...
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May 23rd 04 11:51 PM
by Brian
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Full Disk by
Brian
Hi, hopefully someone can help, I am running Windows 98,
and usually when I try to connect to AOL, a dialog box
comes up and tells me that my hard drive is full and that
it needs to empty some files, so I do, but my drive is
nowhere near full. Also, this sometimes occurs during
boot up. I check...
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May 24th 04 06:27 AM
by Greg
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