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A UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), as Phillipson said, would be nice.
Mine lasts a full 20 minutes supposedly & has saved me several times.
Better answer Hildrum's question. Also, can it boot to Safe Mode? (Hold
F5 or CTRL as you boot to see.) Can it boot to Command Prompt Only
(DOS)?
(a) Boot to DOS. (Hold CTRL as you boot for the Startup Menu, & select
"Command line Prompt".)
(b) Scandisk /Checkonly
Might be wise to know beforehand what it intends to fix. Will
display on screen & get written to "C:\Scandisk.log".
(c) Scandisk
Let it fix, if it didn't sound horrible. Otherwise, post what it
said.
In Dos, you may see "C:\Scandisk.log" this way...
EDIT C:\Scandisk.log
Alt-F-X (pressed separately) to exit EDIT. (TAB to traverse buttons.)
Here are lower-level hard drive repair utilities, but they won't repair
the Windows file system...
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You should run the diagnostics for the brand of hard drive that is in
the computer.
If you don't know what brand the drive is, you can download the
limited-use free edition of OnTrack Data Advisor from this location:
http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/#dataadvisor
When you click the download link on that page for Data Advisor 5.0 Free
edition, you will be taken to a page to register with the OnTrack site,
then you will be able to download the diskette creator file.
The downloads are diskette creators. They are to be run once from a
working Windows system and will guide you through the process of
extracting the Data Advisor onto a 3.5" floppy disk.
Download and Use Instructions:
http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/downloadinfo.asp
Hard Drive Diagnostic Programs by Vendor:
OnTrack Data Advisor:
http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/#dataadvisor
IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test:
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools:
http://support.wdc.com/download/
Quantum/Maxtor PowerMax:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm
Seagate SeaTools:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
Download:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/B7a.html
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/seatoold_reg.html
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
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| My dad has an older computer with 128 ram and 200megs of memory. I am
not
| sure of the speed. Using land line for internet. Recently he was
starting
| up his computer and the power to the house went out. It appears to
have
| crashed the system. He is able to boot up with the 98 disk but he has
to use
| the disk to start each time. His computer is pretty much down so I am
trying
| to find answers for him.
| --
| beckyd
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