Truly, thou deservest the title "Super Geek "! :eek: (Waitaminnit.... you KNOW that was a compliment.... right?)
It worked a treat! Thanks!
Seems the more complicated the OS'es get, the harder it becomes to really get 'rid' of anything, especially The Toxic Monstrosity Which Is Named...
I would reply but I'm too busy slapping myself Oh (censored!) You got it. I forgot all about that. XP can read FAT but WIN98 can't read...
No luck Drive shows in XP-PRO SP3 as repartitioned with five logical drive letters but does not show in 98SE. I still get the "eject drive"...
Further report... Went N U T S trying to re-partition the USB drive with XP's method. (I think I forgot the bollod of three Virgins and the...
Right! I'll give this a go! I do have XP Pro at work. If HP would stop relying on Broadcom Gigabit on-board chips, I'd have a (censored)...
OK I think I blew it. I forgot that WIN98SE has trouble (or just can't) recognize larger drive spaces... went and bought a perfectly nice Iomega...
No joy. Copied it to the hard drive and triedto run from thumbdrive, from c:/, from c:/adaptec and from c:/adaptec/CD Creator 5 folders , got...
XP-Pro SP3 on new HP Athlon dual core 4GB ram So: I'm setting up the new computer and want to load some old programs to it to see if it'll run...
Box comes with Vista Business installed and an [I assume] OEM install disk, a WIN XP-SP2 PRO [again, probably an OEM version] dvd and a recovery...
Should'a said "a DUMBDOWN" disk! How's the weather in Malta? One of my very favourite places in the world to tie up!
My dear wife recently bought me a Tiger Direct HP box with Vista installed and a "dummy" disk to convert it to XP-SP2. I haven't fired it up...
Mattman: Tried looking for drivers /BIOS updates etc at the MoBo website...this one is so old (1999) it doesn't even have legacy updates showing...
Thanks for letting us know what worked! Reports like this make the BBS work! How 'bout a link to ComboFix?
Went to the DaneElec site and found a driver pkg for W98SE, D/l and installed, restarted and the (censored) drive is still not being recognized....
Bingo. "DOH!!! " Thanks
(I'm probably gonna go "DOH! ") On an office computer (XP Pro SP3) and every time I want to download something thru EITHER IE or Firefox, it...
Perfect solution: Tiger Direct. Thanks.
Should have been more specific. Removed the COVER only. No PSU or case changes...same ones. Microstar 6714 MoBo (link in post above). Desktop...
Separate names with a comma.