hi again sorry to take so long, things cropped up just a mo to read what's been happening
ok blakston God Speed an hour suits me fine I can get it better sussed meanwhile == rockster: (or anyone) if you have a second edition CD...
good man don't give up quite yet! now I'd like you to put the W98 CD into the CD drive pls then I want you to do A:\> dir g: <enter>...
blakston, can you see a line like the Drive G: line, pls? or are we throwing in the towel here?
checklist - as I have it A: will be the floppy C: we don't touch (at this time) D: will be partition2 E: will be partition3 F: will be the...
greetings rockster well met blakston wants it blow-by-blow thus (colours as before) I propose: start from startup floppy, choose 1 for start...
what I propose uses known OS file but will not transfer it and does not use D: or E: yet I want to find out whether the FAT error actually...
if we can "test the water" and copy a file or two and show they're OK that's a really good reason to get the new HDD isn't it? GL,HJ
blackston I can see a good chance you can rescue all that matters, and would like to try a test, perhaps two before any attempt is made to...
a couple of notes - the important bit's at the bottom awhile back - I did try to put W95 on top of W3.1/DOS6.20 (not W3.11). I think it was...
sorry BB I wasn't trying to jump the gun only just seen blakstons question to you I really think its a better bet if the new W98 could go onto...
hi blackston, the way I'd go at it would still be to take advantage of the fact that your W98 CD is the full works if you can: it looks...
Hi PeteC thankyou for replying - ZA setup crashed right at the end, and all sorts of weird ensued also when the very first ZA popup window...
further to previous: results: I edited CONFIG.SYS to repeat the line for EMM386 so that it would try to load twice, making no other changes (ie...
Hi bill1 with the temperature dependence and the intermittency - it might very well be hardware - dry joint on motherboard somewhere, or (very...
hi all I keep thinking of what BB said: and I keep on finding it very strange that blakston could get into windows at all, but he could...
DOS is meaning two separate things here might be confusing you when your Windows was first put on the PC it was put on over an old version of...
Hi again - sorry lost the dialup yes blakston very nearly, only you don't have to bother about DOS at all well only as much as you are...
a thought about hard drives - although what BB says about 2GB being small for W98 is true it's for a real-world W98; but we don't need that for...
mark if it's from the startup floppy it doesn't !!! - i only just found this out - it might if its SE perhaps, my W98 is not - maybe you could...
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