re: hard drive issues, please help
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 9:26 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by M. Finckbone
(13 messages posted)
Just a suggestion in a different direction:
First determine what brand drive you have, then go to the maker's sit to support
downloads section, makers like Western digital or Seagate/Maxtor have various Diagnostic
programs and format tools which can boot up on their on DOS ( via CD method) to check
out their drives or format their disks in a GUI/windows type interface.
That might be a easier way to accomplish the ends you seek.
Mike
On Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 9:25 pm, kyle wrote:
>Ok lets see where to begin? First of all the computer is a Dell Espirion 3500. Obviously
>it has an Windows 98 SE operating system. The computer was given to me by my roomate
>when he bought a new one, so I do have internet access and the ability to download
>using his. My computer has been expierincing many issues, insluding constant freezing
>and data loss. Recently it has stopped finding the original drivers for an unknown
>reason so I cant go online, and when I try to open up "my computer" it either takes
>forever and then freezes or just stops.
>I have a boot disk with FDISK as well the windows se install disk. Although Im not
>the most computer literate person I understand basic commands and directions...haha
>(i can read)...I followed directions from another forum here that told me how to
>use FDISK to delete the exisitng partitions and then to make a new one, and set
it
>as "Active". Having done that it says that there is 1 partiton that it is indeed
>active and that its a "FAT32"? and has 100% usage.
>The command from the A: prompt (floppy) with the boot disk in of "FORMAT C:" doesn't
>work as it tells me bad command or file name. Im assuming that it does not have
the
>format file on the disk? So that way to format the drive has not worked. My roomates
>computer doesnt have a floppy drive so i cant add it to my floppy.
>Furthermore when I try to start the computer I get three options....one to start
>the windows 98 Se setup, second to start without cd support. and three to start
with
>cd support. If i try to use option one, it begins to run Scandisk (automatically)
>and after telling me that it is fixing files. I get the following message.
>"Not Ready" "Format Terminated" and thats all.
>When I try to start without CD support but i have the cd in the drive (D) I type
>in D: and at the prompt i type "setup"...This one again takes me into scandisk but
>a different color screen funny enough. After working its way up to 18% everytime
>it stops and gives me this message..
>""To finish repairing drive C, move or delete some files from its root directory,
>and then run scandisk again. I have no idea how to accomplish this as the computer
>will no longer run Windows and only goes into DOS. I have tried many commands such
>as "ERASE" or even tried to use the "DIR" command when i was in the C prompt. THat
>gives me this message...
>"There is no volume label for the C drive"
>any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated as Im at the end of my rope
and
>wondering whether this is a lost cause. Once again i do have access to downloads
>on my roomates computer but i dont believe that will help much as without a floppy
>drive there is no good way to transfer that information to my computer. Thanks for
>the advice. If im missing anything let me know, ive tried to look online through
>this site and others and no matter which way i get into scandisk, or even when it
>actually starts to format it always stops and has a reason. Thanks again!
>
>
>Here are some of the links ive used for my info....
>
>
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1069898801
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1034533693
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1192677773
>
>
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