I experienced the same thing recently...
100GB Western Digital 7200RPM drive.
Fdisk would only recognize 30GB
I figured what the hell... lets see what happens.
I left the partition @ 30, then formatted and loaded Win98SE.
When the machine loaded the 1st time, Win98 did recognize the full...
Crisis Averted
Problem Solved
Status change from SNAFU to semi-SNAFU
yeah, its fixed.
Of all things it could've been, it was the CD-RW.
Very weird indeed... But let this be a lesson (because it is obviously one that I forgot)
Always strip the machine to the bare essentials when...
OK... Just loaded win98 with no problems... The entire install kicked off with no problem. I then tried to install XP from within 98... The install rebooted the machine and then failed in the middle of the 'Starting Windows' screen just like usual.
Well... I'm just about positive that it isn't a HDD issue... I replaced the drive with a spare I had laying around (6GB) that I had recently pulled from an old Win98 machine. My next thoughts are either the processor itself, or possibly some bad RAM.
Anyone out there ever 'partially' fry a...
I was mistaken on the HDD manufacturer... It is a Western Digital... I've dl'd the diag tools and have so far finished the basic test (The extended test is running now).
No problems were encountered with the basic test.
The exact error message is displayed after booting to the WinXP CD (after...
I'm helping troubleshoot a desktop. Specs are:
Soyo Dragon Mobo
AMD XP+1900
512mb Corsair RAM
100gb Seagate 7200RPM
250mb Zip
48x CD-RW
16x DVD
Floppy, ETC.
I know not everything I posted may be needed, but just in case...
I helped build this system about 8 months ago for a Doctor who works...
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