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Ben, OK, and thank you, and thanks to all for your helpful suggestions !! Jusman

shakeelchanna, Have you tried Scandisk or Norton Disk Doctor ? It's also to my surprise that Windows/DOS Scandisk and Norton Disk Doctor doesn't let you mark yourself the area you don't want to access forever. Instead it keeps trying to read that bad area. While it does retrieve data out of the...

Ben, To my opinion, Couflash is poorly supported by IBM and troublesome because no backup option available and actually it is not compatible with all 2176 Aptiva. I will bemore careful in the future. The sadder, the wiser. Jusman

Ben, I really have attempted all possibilities that will cure my machine, including install other hard disks that work in other systems, and of course installing Win98 and also Win 95 freshly on 3 GB HD, but to no joy. Windows 3.11 ? Yes it works fine. After I gave up and submit my machine to...

Sorry, in my last message, I made command error for 3 hard disk configuration, it is not "xcopy c:\ d:\ /c /h /e /f /s /r" but "xcopy d:\ e:\ /c /h /e /f /s /r" since you want to copy from D as master onto E as slave. Thank you. Jusman Sulaiman

marcusmay, If your OS is Windows 95 or 98 there is a very simple and cheap procedure to copy all your data and program from a hard disk to another (bigger) hard disk. 1. You install your second hard disk alone, boot the system with Windows Startup disk, run FDISK and make partition. If...

wolluf, Sorry, I forget to reply to you this : Couflash will exit if during reflashing I choose NOT to change. If it detect that the BIOS is the same with the flash file, it also ask to exit but still let me continue reflashing. Couflash doesn't offer to backup the BIOS original content, so you...

Wolluf, Thank you for kind attention. Yes, at last I went to IBM Bussiness Partner shop in my town earlier today and attempted to purchase the BIOS chip. Unfortunately they only do repairing not selling spareparts. However I left the machine with them to examine and hope that they finally look...

wolluf, Thanks for your attention. I decide to upgrade my BIOS in order to break the 8 GB hard disk limit since I intend to upgrade my hard disk to 20 GB. In addition, the new upgrade BIOSfile also offer Added DVD identification, Fixed timings for DMA modes, Added LBA seek command support, Fixed...

Windows98 slow response after upgrading BIOS with IBM Couflash Two weeks ago I downloaded Couflash from IBM official site for Aptiva PC to upgrade my 2176-X01 Aptiva, made the bootable diskette and proceeded flashing the BIOS as instructed. Regrettably I was interested to alter the Model and...