Recent content by billbobagens

Well if everything has been working ok and you have not installed anything at all including software patches and or hardware that would lead me to think that you have a hardware problem I have had to replace power supplies before because they were starting to go bad which will cause the...

I do not know if this is what you are having but try going here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=326564

I have had different problems with the western digital drives it seems odd but try removing the jumper from the drive that you set for it being a master drive I know I have done this and it seems to make the drive work

Have you tried booting it up where you can step through everything that loads I cant remember what that is called but it is in the list where you pick safe mode,dos mode ect. after you start this loading step by step then you can see where it is erroring out. You said that it boots into safe...

Before you goto all that trouble you could do something else if you are familiar with dos. if you do not have too much on your e drive that win2k is looking for you could just move all the files through to the drive it needs if you recall your d drive turned into your e drive so all of your...

I would like to find out a few things What operating systems is on your first 80 gig drive and how is your new drive set up as for the drive letters I do not know if this will help you out or not but if you are running win2k when it loads it will look in different places for the files it needs...

Most often you get a problem with Hard drives and other drives attached to the same cable like CDroms ,cd burners, Etc. the cause most of the time is the jumper settings on these drives if you have a HDD set as master and you install another drive as a master on the same IDE cable . Then you...

I have run across a similar problem with installing a larger hard drive in an older computer. The new hard drive should have come with a disk utility to help you load the drives.Have you tried this first? I noticed that you said you tried using dos 6.2 to get it going I was told by someone that...