Summary: Has anyone experience a situation where the drive activity persists for a long time even when the system is otherwise idle? Virtual memory is Win assi...
Summary: I posted this a while back, but still haven't been able to resolve the problem. I have a P11400 with two seagate drives, one 4.2 and one 2.1, a PC pa...
Summary: I just noticed something very weird on my computer. I turned it on, just left it on, while I was doing something else. I didnt load any programs or st...
Summary: My computer is a 450MHz machine with Windows 98 installed and an especially active hard drive during boot-up. I replaced the 32MB of SD-RAM with 256MB...
Summary: I am the Network Administrator for an Accounting firm running an NT network with users running mainly Win95 and Win2000... A couple of days ago, all a...
Summary: I have a Win98 (1st edition) PII-333 I use for audio editing. Every 20 seconds or so, when nothing else is going on, the hard drive does a little chat...
Summary: Another easy way to copy the data. 1) connect the new drive to the PC. 2) partition and format the drive. 3) boot to windows and use Xcopy to copy the...
Summary: I got it. Thanks to the both of you. Now, I'm just having issues installing Windows 98. Go figure. It hangs when it is doing the final reboot of t...
Summary: Depends on how much you want to save your old system. You could install Win98 over your Win95 system. Then copy C: to D:. Then swap drives and make t...
Summary: The easiest way to do it is to fdisk first, then format. You should have to re-start your computer twice during the fdisk process. Answer "Yes" to any...
Summary: CLK's old fashioned version is cheap and does the job. A couple of other things are needed. You will have to run fdisk and partition the new drive (be...
Summary: I posted this message back a couple of archives ago about my hard drive going into overdrive once an hour or so. It seems it was scanning something o...
Summary: You should just have to go back into fdisk and make that drive active there - believe its the second option. You need to have your bootable hard drive...
Summary: Al, even though both HD's will be bootable, only one of them should be active at a time. If you make both partitions (drives) active at the same time,...
Summary: The thing is!! You are copying the C: drive to the D: drive. To make the copy work the drive must be C:. If you do a copy with xcopy or xxcopy (with t...
Summary: Fdisk will not make a partition on the second drive active. You can swap drives and use a floppy to make the large one active. Or use a program like R...
Summary: Maybe the "Active" flag of the primary partition has been taken off If you know how to use Fdisk, go inside and just make the first partition (C:) on ...
Summary: Partition the new d: drive with fdisk (primary partition) Run format /s to format it To copy the old drive (C:) to the new drive (D:) Start Windows a...
Summary: i set the auto off for hard drives in power settings in control panel,i set it to shutoff hard drives after 15 minutes, if you have goback installed t...
Summary: Install the new drive and plug as slave Partition it with fdisk (primary partition) Reboot Run format to format it To copy the old drive (C:) to the ...
Summary: My opinion Install the new drive and plug as slave Partition it with fdisk (primary partition) Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/article...
Summary: Yes. You can use xcopy32.exe in a Dos box under windows. Check the options to make sure you copy everything. I use /c /h /e /r /k /q Be sure and part...
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