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  1. IMRevbudgreen

    installing new hdd

    If HDD is FAT 12/16/32 1: Disconnect the two 40's from the ATA channel to avoid accidental fdisk of incorrect drive. 2: Boot to DOS prompt with boot disk containing fdisk. 3: type fdisk [enter] 4: choose option 3 5: choose option 1 6: Follow directions to remove partition and say y 7: [Esc]...
  2. IMRevbudgreen

    Setting Drive as Slave.

    Look up the hard drive specs on the net, and follow the settings for slave drive. Drive info is all over the net. Good Luck PEACE Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  3. IMRevbudgreen

    I have intermittent stop errors when booting: Inaccessible boot drive

    I'd check if the latest VIA 4in1 drivers are loaded. If not, load them.. Good Luck PEACE Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  4. IMRevbudgreen

    Drive Image replaced, now hard drive won't format

    Whats the OS of this current HDD? SCSI or IDE? Taking the HDD out of that machine and formatting on the secondary controller of a different machine running 2000 will allow you to format it NTFS. You should be able to restore the image then. If SCSI, same idead, just change ID# on the drive...
  5. IMRevbudgreen

    Hard drive or not??

    Check out if your CPU is being completely bombed during the file transfer.. Try this program http://www.nospaceleft.com/download.php It gives a simple bar graph showing CPU usage. If it is during the large file transfers,then your CPU and memory are getting involved in the mix. PEACE Not All...
  6. IMRevbudgreen

    Second HD drive slowing me down?

    With the low cost of drives today, either give it to a friend in trade for something cool, auction it off on e-bay for a buck, or put it in an old pre ATA system. PEACE Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  7. IMRevbudgreen

    a:\ drive erases floppys when inserted

    Common issue with a bad floppy drive. Replace the drive and ribbon cable and try again. PACE Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  8. IMRevbudgreen

    Get rid of Nimda

    I saw the 'short of formatting'. Thats why I wrote 'bite the bullet'. In the time you have taken to get this far and try all the patches and fixes you have probably already installed (with limited success, I imagine), you could have done the backup, format, clean and be weel on the way to...
  9. IMRevbudgreen

    So many restrictions on these computers won't let you do ANYTHING!!

    I think you hit it cyoung. This looks like a corporate computer. Afrofoiler, don't mess with the company's machines ;-) This isn't a Microsoft thing, it's your company's Computer Administrator's thing. PEACE Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  10. IMRevbudgreen

    Invalid setting MSDOS.SYS

    Again, this all depends on whether you are using a DDO. Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  11. IMRevbudgreen

    option to start in safe mode

    Either that or get TWEAK/UI. Get it at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsme/guide/tweakui.exe execute the tweakui.exe and save it in c:\tweak (overwrite the c:\windows\temp. Thats a messy place to load files to) The folder will be created automatically. Then RIGHT-click on tweakui.inf and select...
  12. IMRevbudgreen

    Get rid of Nimda

    Nimda is Vicious. Bite the bullet. Back up all data to a different hard drive. Perform a clean install of your OS, then install a GOOD IE: NOT Norton or McAfee anti-virus program on your computer. Do all updates for AV software, and then connect your data drive (Remember it still has nimda on...
  13. IMRevbudgreen

    Invalid setting MSDOS.SYS

    Theres the possibility that you are using a DDO as well. When you set up the original hard drive, did you use MaxBlast on it? If so, it probably loaded the DDO program. You won't be able to access c: drive form a boot floppy withoutholding down the [Ctrl] key when the system starts it's boot...
  14. IMRevbudgreen

    HDD to HDD copy

    You're just begging for more problems no matter how you try to do this. You may have to take a while resetting up your software on the 2K system, but the time is a good investment. First off, Win98 IS NOT a reliable stable OS when you try to do a hardware change as radical as a new motherboard...
  15. IMRevbudgreen

    Cant get com 4 port ....

    What doesn't work about it? No dialtone?, no response from modem? Give me your error exactly. Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  16. IMRevbudgreen

    Temp Monitoring

    The temperature sensors are designed to tell the correct information about operating temperatures only when they are setup in the MANUFACTURERS RECOMMENDED LOCATION!! Unfortunatly, finding out that information is harder than getting a 286 to run XP-Pro. I've found that the 'Industry' standard is...
  17. IMRevbudgreen

    New 60Gb HDD, can't see most of it

    Updating BIOS can be the Rebirth, or complete Death of a motherboard. Don't flash BIOS unless the system doesn't operate properly, and there is no workaround. Prepare yourself for the motherboard to NEVER work again if you screw up flashing the BIOS, or a power problem occurs during flashing...
  18. IMRevbudgreen

    Cant get com 4 port ....

    If it's a Winmodem, quite frequently, the COM port won't show in Device Manager. I'm inclined to think your modem is defective. Go to Control Panel~modems~ find your modem and it's COM PORT (Presumably COM4) do a more info check on the modem and the system will do an AT& send to the modem. You...
  19. IMRevbudgreen

    PC Reboots sporadically and freezes - any suggestions ?

    The problem seems completely hardware related. You have added power hungry items (new HDD), (More Memory). That puts an additional draw on the power supply. Just a few millivolts extra draw on a weak or underpowered supply will cause complete system power problems (Such as reboots). I see it all...
  20. IMRevbudgreen

    Securing my PCAnywhere users.

    I'm trying to shore up security for my on-site customers. A little background, then the question. A few days ago, I went on a service call to configure PCAnywhere 10.1 for a client. He has no firewall at the home location, and router using NAT at the host location. I was at his home (The...

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