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b21playa - 25 Aug 2005 22:37 GMT
Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:
> If Jon's advice,
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;87239
> won't help... What is the size of HDD?
>
> There may be the similar problem if it is greater than 120GB.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
> Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
> Please reply to the newsgroups only.
> ======
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:58:11 +0100, b21playa
> b21playa.1uaec0@news.win98banter.com wrote:
> -
>
> Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:-
>
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:30:21 +0100, b21play
> b21playa.1u8305@news.win98banter.com wrote:
> -
> Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get
> "Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender"-
> --
> ..--
> Usually that happens when the HDD is wrongly partitioned, even i
> Fdisk
> had been used. In this case Fdisk from Win95/98 may not correct this
> problem -- but there are several ways to solve it. I prefer Booti
> Next
> Generation, www.bootitng.com (30-day fully functional shareware).--
> ..-
>
> Hi i just tried that, i deleted old partition, created new one and
> still get the bad fault in MS-DOS extender, i even got fault outside
> extender once
>
> anyone got any other ideas or solutions?-

tried on a 20g and 10gb - nothing big

also updated the bios and nothing

will try changing ram from another machine to tes

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b21playa
Gary S. Terhune - 26 Aug 2005 05:28 GMT
Only if those are identical machines. RAM is not all that interchangeable.

> Mikhail Zhilin Wrote:
>> If Jon's advice,
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>
> will try changing ram from another machine to test
 
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