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Xcom 1: Victim of randomiser ?
The hard drive light blinked occasionally but never progressed anywhere. Reset to try again. Same result. So it looks like I have board that has the related data Got an EPOX 8K7A I am installing tonight to replace this problematic board and vow to never again invest in another ECS board from here on out.

P3-800E (cB0) P3V4x..no o'c-ing
It's called "Hey I bought a new drive, because my old one is hosed, if you come over and install the new drive you can have the old drive" The 4 Gig for Partitioning and zips are my friends. oddlystrange (who isn't HSF+ing her hard drive because I'm often on preOS8.1 machines) [1] unless you're using HFS+

I have had it up to *here* with Linux
When I was there earlier today, I tried rebooting and then CTRL+ALT+DEL'ing out the Best Buy program, because it automatically starts when WinME boots. If it needs repair they'll swap your machine for another (used) one -- hard drive and all. So you'll lose everything if you don't back up first.

I was thinking... (for you NT gurus)
I'm sorry; some things I find so annoying about MacOS that it almost makes it useless to me (crashy, poor MT'ing) but obviously those aren't issues for you. Why would someone want or need to move an application from one directory to another? Hard drive reorganization? What if you install an app in the wrong

HELP! Yellow exclam. marks; MS-DOS compatibility file mode
Ive had lilo complain about the wrong boot cylinder, grub refuses to even install unless I put the smaller hard drive as primary master, and Im just waiting for another warning about that damaged hard drive, which is going to need patching up again once ive got an OS installed. Amazingly enough... scandisk can work

Linux is Not For You.
When We had a hard disk in a similar situation to the one you describe [ trying to add a bootable DOS partition to a 100% Nice Try box ] SYS'ing the newly created FAT partition at the end of the drive resulted in fragmented files ! Wild !! Very wild !!! Can you believe that ? A fragmented IO.SYS and MSDOS.

Replace Boot Drive - How To?
With the KDE install that Caldera ships, I was pleasantly surprised to see that on the desktop was my CD-ROM and floppy, but where was my hard drive? on the same hard drive: Linux: 1 minute 47 seconds Windows: 2 minutes 37 seconds Now I have no idea how or why etc., but Linux seems faster so I am keep- ing it.

new HD prob-win95a
SYS ERROR WHEN INSTALLING OS/2 WARP V4 OVER OS/2 WARP V4. APAR= JR09322 CANNOT DUMP TO HARD DRIVE ON COMPAQ SERVER SYSTEMS SUCH AS PROLIANT 4500 WITH .... APAR= JR10583 SYS3175 IN APPLICATION DUE TO SELECTORS FREED IN ANOTHER THREAD OF THE PROCESS. APAR= JR10587 GPIASSOCIATE DOES NOT CLOSE A DC HANDLE WHEN AN ERROR

Formatting my hard drive
At the end of their process, the actual location of the files on my hard drive, was not, to my mind, ever clearly stated (in terms of folders and Another example, everytime I put any media in any device XP cogitates over it for a while and that offers me a few choices of things I might want XP to do with it.

Shrinking hard drive
I run Win98, WinME, (bootmanager: OS/2-WinNT-Win98), and a machine with yet-another old Warp Connect install. Using this last machine is also an option, but while it doesn't make Buy a good motherboard (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI), DDR memory, IBM hard drive, Athlon XP or Pentium 4 processor, and a good power supply.

Desktops for Red Hat 8
I have not been able to test this because my computers could only boot from an unspecified "hard drive", as stated earlier. Does anyone have more info on this? Another possible interpretation would be that a "bootable" flag in a partition on a disk other than the first, would have to be 0x80 + zero-based disk

SMART ?
This is typically used so as to put individual partitions in a RAID set up - eg */dev/hda1* is mirrored to */dev/hdb5* while using another RAID level or no RAID I tried to install Linux on a spare IDE harddrive, but I had lots of stability problems, so I removed the HD. Hmm... Why would this have anything to do

ProDOS partition on MAC SCSI
The reason I don't run at 83 is my deskstar 5 hard drive. Great hard drive, but it just can't take the 83 speed with busmaster drivers installed. Now add another component, etc, etc. It's time consuming, but it's the only way to be sure. If yanking out all your components doesn't do the trick, the problem could

comp.os.386bsd.announce Frequently Asked Questions (Part 6 of 9)
I don't have the time to give that another try, I will do a clean install. Don't. But be warned!!!! No, YOU be warned. Act like a klutz and you will be thought a klutz. For what it's worth, I used the instructions in that howto to move from a 6 GB hard drive to a 60 GB one a few years ago.

How to stop self-starting disc scans?
At that moment, with very restrictive set of tools, trying to make hard drive bootable, and, the most important, getting installation CD in operation. You can't mix minor numbers from one driver to another. After 'reboot'ing, and changing in BIOS boot sequence, printed error message was: boot not found Cannot

Iomega SCSI Zip Drive install, personal experience
2) install on the hard drive in another machine. This involves either a)setting the drive up on the "install machine" exactly as it would be on the "target machine", After rpm -ivh'ing the src.rpm, the code will be in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. Matt -- Matt Drew Technical Support Leader Red Hat Technical Support

uninstalling WinME on a Dell
There's also the possibility that I might end up using the second disk (another 80GB one that currently belongs to XP) for FreeBSD also. When you install the additional hard drive, run /stand/sysinstall. Select the Index option and run the Partition option followed by the Label option.

Adding harddrive: Anything to pay attention of in MDK9?
As with the PlayOnline browser, you're required to input a lengthy registration code and password, but this information is stored to your hard drive and never asked for again. Installing FFXI to the harddisk Final Fantasy XI took about 25 minutes to install to the hard disk, and another 10 minutes to download an

Install problems
Not so much a drive geometry, but you are booting with the wrong controller. I would install a fresh copy of the OS, but conviently the client has lost Move the SCSI controller and 2GB hard drive to the new machine. See if it boots and test it. Purchase a large SCSI hard drive and add it as your second drive.

NF7-S: How to get existing Windows XP into a RAID-0 setup?
However, after fdisk-ing and formatting (with my Win95 boot-disk), I get a primary active partition which is formatted with FAT32 (which is what I want, My only solution (so far) is to install MS-DOS 6.22 (which incidentally only recognizes the first 2 gigs of the hard-drive, and wipes out my previous