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re: windows 95 needs help!
Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 6:05 am
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Posted by Kate (7 messages posted)


the problem is my laptop does not have a floppy disc thing...im trying to find someone who has a portable one, but hardly anyone has them anymore.


On Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 2:55 am, Don wrote:
>Morning Kate,
>It's me again. So you tried to save your slideshow to a CD on an old laptop? I'll
>assume you mean a 3.5 inch diskette. I doubt that an old win95 laptop had a writeable
>CD. Anyway, when you are at that C:\ prompt, try copying config.sys to a diskette,
>take the diskette to the pc you are using to get here, open the file with notepad
>and paste the contents in a message here.
>
>Next, try running scandisk at the C:\ prompt on that old laptop. What do you get?
> Next, do a DIR at the C:\ prompt, do you see your root files?, the windows directory?,
>how much free space do you have on C:\?
>
>Start digging out your laptop support media. It is remotely possible that the laptop
>C drive has been "hosed". Will look for your results tomorrow AM. Good luck, Don
>
>
>


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All messages in this thread [show all]
-windows 95 needs help! (Kate: Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 3:40 pm)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (Don: Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 4:29 am)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (Kate: Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 4:58 am)
*re: windows 95 needs help! (mojoe: Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 11:44 am)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (jack hall: Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 12:59 pm)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (Kate: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 6:51 am)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (jack hall: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 8:56 am)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (Kate: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 1:25 pm)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (jack hall: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 1:40 pm)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (Kate: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 4:15 pm)
*re: windows 95 needs help! (jack hall: Sun, May 1, 2005, 8:52 am)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (Don: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 2:55 am)
*re: windows 95 needs help! (Kate: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 6:05 am)
-re: windows 95 needs help! (Kate: Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 6:45 am)
*re: windows 95 needs help! (Don: Sun, May 1, 2005, 1:28 am)
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