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  1. tekola

    Disappearing Disk Drives

    Fdisk reports write-protect error and Primary DOS partition cannot be created. Manufacturer (Seagate) utility cannot write zeroes to drive. I think the drive is toast! Thanks anyway.
  2. tekola

    Hello People!! Old Packard Bell

    Sorry can't help, but coincidentally I have old Packard Bell 133Mhz that sees the hard drive every other boot and reports hard drive is write protected. CMOS battery is part of motherboard, don't even see sodder points. I guess PB didn't build to last. R.I.P.
  3. tekola

    Disappearing Disk Drives

    No reason to think the battery is dead. Time being kept, hardware configuration is being kept.
  4. tekola

    Disappearing Disk Drives

    What does it mean when the hard drive is autiodetected by the BIOS, every other boot? I have checked for viruses. Replaced hard drive. Second hard drive experiences same symptoms. Now you see it, now you don't. When it boots to floppy, Scandisk reports FAT error prevents ScanDisk from...
  5. tekola

    Calculating years/months/days

    I tested in Excel and got this showing that you have to subtract one from the number of months, and 1900 from the number of years to get what you originally wanted. BirthDate 6/1/01 5/4/52 1/1/02 6/1/91 Today 5/31/02 2/23/02 2/23/02 5/31/92 Diff(days) 364 18192 53 365 =Year()...
  6. tekola

    windows 98se problems on startup

    You need to check al the usual Startup items. 1) C:\WINDOWS\STARTMENU\PROGRAMS\STARTUP 2) WIN.INI "load=" and "Run=" 3) Autoexec.bat (unlikely) 4) The dreaded registry. Much to detailed to list. Use System Configuration Utility is easiest. Also, when Windows is starting...
  7. tekola

    Calculating years/months/days

    The subtraction of one date from another is in days, not a date. So it does work unless there is a Time tacked onto the dates being subtracted which might throw it off slightly.
  8. tekola

    Produce email reports in html with pictures linked and displayed

    I created a database to do that see www.geocities.com/mikeythedog (This is a small version of a Monster I created with Access, that catalogues hundreds of rolls of film for an Engineering projetc I worked on. I do a directory *.jpg to file, import to Access then run a report that looks like...
  9. tekola

    Cannot Open access file

    Is it possible somebody on the network opened it with Access 2000? You can also try "msaccess.exe database1.mdb /repair" OR "msaccess.exe database1.mdb /compact database2.mdb" on the Access command line
  10. tekola

    Exporting data to excel via notepad

    OOPS! That path should include \Program Files\, but I tested and it works.
  11. tekola

    Exporting data to excel via notepad

    You need to use Excel Function CONCATENATE(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) and place the new Description in a new cell. Or Use a Word macro on your original file to automate the replacement of the ",**". Word macros can be run with a command line, even in Access with a Macro like this "RunApp...
  12. tekola

    Calculating years/months/days

    You can subtract one date from the other then extract Years , Months, and Days sort of like this: DeltaDate=Date2-Date1 Years=YEAR(DeltaDate) Months=MONTH(DeltaDate) Days=DAY(DeltaDate)
  13. tekola

    Access 2000 - Senior Design Help

    YOu can specify the format of a date as "mm/dd/yyyy" in the fields properties
  14. tekola

    Seperating the time from a date

    It just seem to easy, but I have done this with a query to produce a scratch field called Hour calculated from the time. Hour(date)
  15. tekola

    HELP ME PLEASE..........

    One possible solution, is to Boot to ms_dos prompt (command line only). RUN SCANREG /RESTORE to restore an old copy of the registry.
  16. tekola

    I lost my win 98 cd...

    Lucky you. I still have my Win98 CD. Sorry, just kidding. Have you checked the C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS folder to see if your manufacturer left the sources there?
  17. tekola

    fatal exception error @ 0028:C029F948 in VXD VWIN32(05)+000012D0

    Try this http://www.techadvice.com/w98/err_with/vwin32_err.asp
  18. tekola

    Strange Freeze in Internet Explorer. Help appreciated.

    Make sure you don't have programs , like RealAudio and Gator (Adware) running on the Task Bar. My IE6 problems went away when i removed or disabled all adware. Those programs access the Internet and may conflict with IE6. There are also web pages that cannot handle IE6 due to poor programming...
  19. tekola

    Removeing Internet connection Shareing

    To remove ICS: Start, Control Panel, Add/Rem Programs, Windows Setup tab, select Internet Tools, click Details, uncheck Internet Connection Sharing.
  20. tekola

    Windows 98 Reboots Unexpectedly during installs

    Windows 98 system reboots whenever we try to install or uninstall anything. First, let me tell you Windows 98 cannot be reinstalled either, the system reboots in the process with no reason. A few facts, 1) system is running Norton Desktop, Av, Crashguard ("totally useless") and...

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