Nor, apparently, can anyone else who has checked in on this post. All, well, continued ignorance may serve to make me less dangerous. Thanks...
"These commands are all builtin. But don't ask me where they are in the reg as I have never looked. ( or cared for that matter ) " Ah, but...
By "opening" a drive, I mean viewing its contents by clicking on the icon in My Computer.
Let me try this one more time and then I'll let it go before I exhaust everyone's patience. Goddez, I'm not really trying to fix the...
Billy Bob--To reproduce the problem, put any cd with an autorun feature on it into your cd drive, then do a search for "Autorun" in the register....
" "All you really needed to copy to the HD is the Contents of the Win98 folder on the CD. I myself would just delete everything referring to...
I copied the entire contents of my Win98SE CD onto drive G:. Now when I open G: I get the menu for the 98CD instead of the normal explorer view...
Two questions, possibly related: What program is used to open a drive directory (d:, for instance) in My Computer? Although...
This will probably remain a theoretical dilemma unless I get around to trying PM, but thanks in any event for your patience and help.
Although I haven't tried it since my last posting, in the past I have received a message from fdisk that "primary dos already exists" when I...
If I understand this properly: Only the primary partition on a HD is bootable. Only one partition on a HD Can be the primary partition at a...
Having received no replies, I went ahead and changed the active partition to D: and it did not boot. So now the question becomes, what does it...
Win98SE 7 Gig HD My HD has a Primary Dos partition and an Extended Dos Logical partition (size roughly 3 G and 4 Gig respectively). I have...
"In the BIOS. Are ( were ) all hardrive loacations set to Auto ? " Yes, they are and were set to Auto. My best guess is my first one, that...
This Compaq is indeed really compact, Billy Bob. It's not made to be worked on by adult human hands. Must be put together by children in...
There's nothing wrong with checking the basics periodically, of course, although I have already done so (or think I have, and therein lies the...
Yes, the machine has been powered off completely more than once during this operation. Yes, the secondary ide has worked before. This is not...
I have done all of the above as suggested. Windows claimed to find and load Primary, Secondary and IBM Bus controllers but device manager still...
"After selecting one of these go to PnP/Pci configuration look for a setting that says PNP OS installed, select yes if not already, then change...
"In safe mode remove all primary and secondary controllers. Reboot (windows will reinstall on boot) recheck the controllers in full. " I...
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