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  1. spacekowboy

    installing xp,new hd

    can u fdisk and partiton via 98 boot disk and then load xp? can u and a new or old hd with 98 on it to an xp system? what issues do u anticipate? Spacekowboy
  2. spacekowboy

    fat 32 is now non=dos

    ican still boot up, after invalid sys disk msg,i hit enter and it is normal. fdisk show a tiny dos part. anyway to fix? it wont reinstall...' spacekowboy Spacekowboy
  3. spacekowboy

    disk help

    somehow on my 30 gig drive with 98 se, a tiny dos partition was written and the 29 gig used partition became to fdisk, a non dos partition. interestingly, i can still boot to 98. it stops and says no PT, which i presume is no partition, i hit enter and it boots like normal. i dont understand...
  4. spacekowboy

    233 p1 and 128mgs

    will xp load and run on this computer? :-Q x->
  5. spacekowboy

    network neighborhood icon

    how do i get network neighborhood off desktop i reloaded 98 over itself,all is fine except for this icon which wont delete and ive forgotten what i did to get rid of it before... thanks in advance :-Q x->
  6. spacekowboy

    have to reinstall i think

    can get to desktop but conaltdel says explorer is not responding. this is after saving data to a cdrw from another d harddrive now i cant even run scandisk from windows before i reinstall over itself so as not to lose installed programs and settings,codecs, etc does anyone have a better idea...
  7. spacekowboy

    file view changes on its own

    in windows explorer the file view changes from folders on top and individual files below all in alphabetic order to the reverse, that folders are on bottom and files on top starting with z going to a etc. this has happened twice now after i restored registry and fixed it temporarily. changing...
  8. spacekowboy

    nontransferable burned cds

    i know this isnt rare, but i dont know the solutions; new sony cdrw, sonys software,B's, makes excellent data,pic,etc, burned cdrws as long as ur on same machine... id like to download/run these cds on diff systems..is there a solution? spacekowboy :-Q x->
  9. spacekowboy

    nontransferable burned cds

    i know this isnt rare, but i dont know the solutions: a new sony cdrw makes excellent data, pics, burned cds on cdrw disks. for the machine theyre made on only. since i want the cds to be downloaded and used on other machines,what is the solution? sony cd, cdrw disks, sonys software:b's help...
  10. spacekowboy

    buying new vid card

    i am not a gamer so 32 or even 16meg should be fine, which geforce or other card is most trouble free and effective with word processing and jpgs/camera images and the net? thanks :-x x->
  11. spacekowboy

    list of keyboard shortcuts

    please share if you have a url with windows keyboard shortcuts, i always forget some..thanks :-Q x->
  12. spacekowboy

    isnt this all possible from ie with

    isnt this all possible from ie without additional software? :-Q x->
  13. spacekowboy

    control m

    i understand control m is supposed to minimize all windows, it doesnt on the two win98 systems ive tried it on. 1...is this common? can i 'turn it back on'? 2...is there a list of keyboard commands like this anywhere? thanks x-)
  14. spacekowboy

    unknown 3com us robotics modem

    i have an older pentium with a 3com us robotics modem, windows finds it as a communications device but none of the drivers ive used so far <guesses> will load. i can do it manually, but then nothing will access it. 1. how do i find out which model it is? 2. is there a generic 56k driver? 3...
  15. spacekowboy

    can a virus harm hardware?

    this came up in a different forum, i am almost sure it can possibly from experience...but i dont have a reference doc, is this true and is there a reference anyone knows about? thanks X-)
  16. spacekowboy

    Can a virus harm hardware?

    recently in a thread under win98 this question arose. normally viruses do not harm hardware of course, but as i understand it, they can and some do. however, i am not a software expert, hacker or security professional. can someone give an answer to this question, or reference? thanks X-)
  17. spacekowboy

    repeated reboots, losing ram, cant reset vm

    my machine, 233 k6 64mg has a winmodem, <i know>, and it logs it off and wont hold the reconnect till i reboot, if i go to dos and del win386.swp it always works on reboot...for an hour... i installed a free utility named ramidle and i can watch the ram disappear from 45-48 free to 0, altho...
  18. spacekowboy

    where are the drivers?

    i need to save vid driver from the hd as the driver disk is gone, i cant find them to save them...where are they stored inside windows? thanks
  19. spacekowboy

    ccupeap.exe and cmcp16

    and cmcp32 what are these programs? ive looked in micorsoft knowledge base and virus libraries to no avail, all run on my win98 os. if anyone knows, id sure appreciate the information.

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