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  1. oldcomptrguy

    BIOS

    What is BIOS Buffer Overun? I was having touble getting this comptr to recognize the hard drive. A ran a Diagnostic check and the motherboard has that problem. At least 3 out of the 4 times I ran the check on the motherboard.
  2. oldcomptrguy

    Bad Hard Drive

    I have an 80G Maxtor hard drive, running Windows ME. It made a grinding noise and Scandisk showed numerous errors that could not be fixed. I went and got Drive Copy to copy the data to a good drive. However, I never got the chance to use Drive Copy because when I went to start it, it would...
  3. oldcomptrguy

    Remove NTFS Partition

    I have a 30g hard drive that once had XP, with its NTFS partition. I formatted and fdisk to remove XP and NTFS. I then created a Primary DOS partition. It appeared that everything was OK, but when I went to install 98, it said that disk contained only the NTFS partition. I have fdisk and...
  4. oldcomptrguy

    Desktop Icons

    I have two similiar comptrs. Both have XP home and are hooked into my home network. Neither uses an administrator, only the "user". On one the Desktop shortcut icons for web sites always shows the symbol of the site, ie Yahoo is a Y, Netscape is an N, etc. On the other comptr the...
  5. oldcomptrguy

    Upgrade Win 95 to Win98

    I have a comptr with Windows 95 and alot of data on it that I do not want to lose. I have a Windows 98 CD and was going to upgrade to 98 but the Windows 98 CD is a full version, and not an upgrade. So when I try and install it it tells me there is already an OS on the comptr and I need to use...

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