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re: FDISK
Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 4:28 pm
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Posted by Linda (31 messages posted)

O.K.!!!!! (Deep breath here.......) ALL the cds failed. (BTW Ed, to answer your question, yes, I believe it is 6 GB. Somewhere in the maze of testing done for days on end, that number showed up several times in the test results). I assumed earlier today (apparently incorrectly) after checking the site a few times that people here pretty much gave up on my plight. I know that I DID!!! So, when I didn't see any posts, I figured all was lost, and frankly, my mind was in a knot trying to deal with this mess. I was totally confused and resigned myself to tossing it all, and considering my lesson learned re: messing with registry/cures/fixes and so forth. As Carol pointed out, they are a BIG no-no!! BTW, this is a laptop pc. It was on it's way to the trash bin this afternoon. I was hopelessly confused and frustrated. I had one hour of free time today, so I decided to "play around" with it just for giggles before it went into the trash bin. I did a format. I tossed in my Win 98 cd and THIS time it worked!! It actually installed!!! (Try to understand the excitement of seeing the Windows logo after days of a black screen with the words "No operating system found" or "invalid disk", "incorrect parameter", "bad command", etc.). Caught up in the fever of the moment I tossed in the Win 98 cd....it also worked. If this little pc works, WHATEVER it turns out to be, I'm content. Not suprisingly, the caveat is that there's no volume nor am I able to complete download of my MSN, nor do I have 32 bit color 'cause it doesn't recognize the modem. When I redid my desktop 98SE awhile back, the same thing happened. A trip to the pc doc rendered an inexpensive modem/drivers replacement and all was well. I'm hoping for the same "cure" with this replacement. As I'm sure is obvious, I'm not pc savvy, but I'm willing to learn. If I understand correctly, I wiped the OS, if I did a partition/format and installed a ME OS DISK program I might have a ME today. (Correct?). This has been extremely frustrating, confusing and fatiguing to me, but many things have been learned. I must say, one more time, that I'm OVERWHELMED by the selfless giving of time, patience and kindness shown to me while I grappled with this problem. Thank you ALL, especially Ed and Carol....I don't know what else to say except, simply, "THANK YOU!!!!" Ed, I nominate you "Patron Saint of Pitiful 'Puter People"!!! :)

Written in response to:: re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 2:13 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: FDISK (Linda: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 5:31 pm)

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Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:21 am)

re: Major Mistake (Don: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 4:01 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:07 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:15 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:05 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:43 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:56 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:55 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Steve: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:17 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:33 am)

re: Major Mistake (Alan Masterman: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 8:16 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:50 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ed: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:50 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 10:36 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:01 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:23 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:44 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 1:39 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:11 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:25 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:43 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:52 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 6:54 am)

re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 10:18 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 12:45 pm)

re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:02 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:01 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:38 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:44 am)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:57 am)

re: Major Mistake (C K: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:17 am)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 1:58 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 3:44 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:18 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:27 pm)

re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:00 pm)

re: PS (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:14 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:36 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 6:38 am)

re: FDISK (Ed: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 1:54 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:30 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 7:21 am)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 12:44 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 1:42 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:05 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:22 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 12:28 pm)

re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:13 pm)

re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:36 pm)

re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 2:13 pm)

re: FDISK (Linda: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 4:28 pm)