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hard drive corruption
When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A

Update on my peril with the iTunes Music Store
If that doesn't work and your hard drive controller ports have a yellow exclaimation next to them, boot into safe mode and go to the device manager and remove all devices from it. You will probably be left with two devices under the hard drive controller section. To delete these, fire up regedit and go to

Is my hard drive running too slow?
I've got the product key of the version that came with my computer but can I use my parents xp disk to re-install it? Personally, I find both 2 and 3 unacceptable (especially 3; a hard drive crash can leave you with nothing), and would never choose to buy a computer that came with an operating system unless I

Off-topic: have I got a virus on my PC?
It leaves a lot of things in the registry and on your hard drive that will keep 6.0 from installing correctly. I will try your way and see if it will work. I am running Vista Ultimate 64 Bit on my laptop....once I got my Firewall (Windows Live One Care) to cooperate everything syncs beautifully.

Windows Mobile Device Center in Vista Ultimate 64-Bit
I had SuSE 7.3 installed on my first laptop (Dell Inspiron 3800) with a hard drive; it dual-booted into Windows 2000 Professional and SuSE. My Windows partition crashed and burned . . . so I got an upgrade from my company to a Dell Latitude C600. I took the same hard drive that was in my first laptop,

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Ron Reaugh Ron-Rea...@worldnet.att.net alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt Shawn H wrote in message <1md6jtkhqo7k8e1vp2vj9rbh6s0lnfc...@4ax.com>... I just rebooted my computer, then out of no where, for no reason, all of sudden, i get this DOS message saying something about finding some errors and it will run scandisk.

My Experience Installing OSR2/Windows 95 B
Just got my new canon 300d and it is just fantastic. I was showing the various features of the camera to my wife and saying how we now have 6 megapixels at our disposal. She said wont that start filling up our PC? Our main pc has an 80gig hard drive with about 30 gig free. Well average file size of 4 meg (not raw)

Installing XP from an external cd drive ...
Or is it time to go hard drive shopping? Thanks for the help Hi Byron, it sounds like a "sticktion" problem. The first time I encountered this was when I had a IIe and the hard drive on it exhibited this problem. Later, when I got my IIGS, the hard drive I used to use with it also got the problem.

my trip back here
At the end of repartitioning, I got the Award Software warning message again. No matter which one I would do, the "y" or "any key", I got the same results. I assumed my hard drive was corrupt, so I bought a new Maxtor 40gig HD and it does the very same thing. So, it's obviously not the hard drive. Any ideas?

Got a problem with my hard drive settings?
I copied the windows cab files onto my hard drive and installed it. When it ran windows the first time I got an error saying that my system configuration is invalid and to run scanreg. I ran scanreg and it said that it was unable to fix to problem and to delete some file to free up disk space.

is my hard drive dying?
2 days later I received the hard drive and "I" was responsible for loading all the new software..... (more about this later on what I did)...now to my NEW PROBLEM. ALL has been running fine with my NEW hard drive until last week. I booted up one night and all I got was a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the

A vinyl playback discussion
First, it hung at the "name my computer" screen. I was told to put it in VGA mode. That got me past that screen. Now I am stuck on "This copy of widows Normally just replacing a hard drive in an eMachines computer (and nothing else) shouldn't prevent you from using their Recovery Disks, but who knows with them?

Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at ...
I just rebooted my computer, then out of no where, for no reason, all of sudden, i get this DOS message saying something about finding some errors and it will run scandisk. So it started the surface scan and it didn't take long before the numbers stopped ticking over and i heard rrr-rrr-rrr rrr-rrr-rrr. then the

VH6-II Hard Drive Recognition Problem
First, I always extract to my hard drive first and then burn to the CD. If you're trying to go directly from your CD-ROM to your CD-R, you've got two hardware devices that have to be perfectly in sync. When you extract to your hard drive first, this synchronization problem goes away. So does the load on your CPU

Newbie got in WAY over his head.
The computer system was replaced in the mid '80s when they had purchased the last remaining Westinghouse hard drive in the world, and no one was rebuilding them. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida.

Frontpage won't open after installing Expression Web!
I'm using a laptop, and my hard drive crashed -- I had to get a new one. I've got it working fine, but my problem is, my internal CD drive doesn't work. I've always used an external CD drive to replace it (running off a PC card) but of course, I can't boot from it. I've got my XP CD, but I don't know how to install

How long can stuff stay on your HARD DRIVE?
GM ma...@mainews.com.invalid 24hoursupport helpdesk On 20 Feb 2000 Kevin & Karin wrote: Hello, My first build PC is finally running great except that when I look at 'system properties' there appears to be a problem. There are three error statements: Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance Drive

My Hard drive just self-destructed...
Removed original hard drive and ran XP cd to perform ASR to new hard drive partition (1) - windows XP, but got error message when reading floppy drive, boot error regarding ntoskrnl.exe [4] Used my version of XP to backup (all files) on original hard drive partition (1) to a spare partition on my hard drive.

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Robert Goodman robg...@bestweb.net alt fan cecil-adams After my hard drive failure in Sept., I should've given more serious consideration to replacing this 450 MHz But once I got my old data recovered by a local (the drive head wasn't completely inoperable) -- that's just my and Dave's data, not the Windows 98

Battlefield Vietnam Game
Brad Greer jjh110...@yahoo.com rec music gdead On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:37:28 GMT, Avant Grape <avantnograpec...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: ba_ba_b0...@webtv.net wrote: I got a "hard drive" at the market and I am going to use it for back up storage. The one I got is about 120 gigs. I guesss I could store many hours of