I just got a Western Digital 320 Gig external HDD and use it mainly on my
XP-based desktop. I've got a notebook PC running W98 and after getting the
HDD installed on it, it's not showing up in the list of drives.
The HDD is running NTFS, and to be honest, I've forgot most of what ...

Hi everyone, I have a problem with a portable usb 2G micro hard drive.
I use(d) it a lot and now it has decided to stop working. Worst case
and most likely cause is that its a problem with the interface
electroncs rather than the physical disk. The problem for me is that

I need to get some information on the implementation of FAT for an
embedded system environment. I am developing a system with an FPGA
(Field Programmable Gate Array) on it. The FPGA is supposed to read and
write data to/from the hard-disk. There is no operating system involved

A friend is having trouble with floppy disks which the system will not
fill.
They take about 800 kB and then reject any further files.
He has lots of small text files and I wondered if there is an upper

I have a friend w/ a pentium 3 Gateway machine (OEM OS has been removed
previously and Windows OS/98 and Windows OS/XP had been loaded and
working great.) that has two hard drives, one with Windows OS/98 and
the other drive with Windows OS/XP.

I am trying to write a file recovery program. In a FAT32 partition (5
GB size) when a file is deleted using
"Shift+Del" key, the program is supposed to recover the entire file..
Only  API calls are to be used (not driver). Please if someone can

While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD
for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot.
Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the
system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive

I have a dual boot system consisting of win98se and windows xp. Presently I
am using an IDE switch box to use the system with that has a cd burner for
98 and then I use the dvd burner for xp. The reason I do this is because
when I boot the system with the dvd drive there isnt ...

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff)
I did a clean install from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web
cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally
got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing

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Programs of formatting a hard disk checks its surface and excludes the
damaged (unreliable) places from further use - this is written in the
manual. Clearly, that if after formatting a hard disk something will be
written on it, these excluded places will not be used. And will it ...

I'm running a Dual-boot 98SE/WinXp Pro setup. Two HDs.  A 200G Maxtor
with an 80G WD. The 80G used to hold my 98 Then I purchased the 200G,
partitioned (4) and cloned 98 to the first partition, installed XP Home
to the second and voila.  I had a functioning dual-boot rig. After ...

   I have a Compaq Contura 410C laptop (bought around 1997) which
I do not use a lot.  When I first power it up (external power, not battery),
the floppy disk drive works just fine for about 10 minutes.  Afterwards,
I have trouble reading floppy disks (drive not ready type of ...

How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable?
I have a Compaq Presario 5204. The paper manual says if you connect an
additional IDE (hard drives?) to set the jumpers to cable select.
If I understand cable select allows the derive at the end to be the