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superpsa   08-17-2003 at 11:10:26 PM

I got an old HDD from my girlfriends old machine and stuck it into my spare Duron 800 machine. I fdisked and full formatted and tried to install windows 98 and was greeted with the a lovely message informing we windows could not run standard mode due to HIMEM.sys and if i didn't use HIMEM.sys to update my memory manager (or something along those lines).

This is not a HDD fault and it is not a RAM fault. What's gone wrong? Have I formatted it wrongly?!

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superpsa   08-19-2003 at 03:22:19 PM
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Update!

Installed Win98 onto the drive on another machine and then bunged it into this one again. Loads up until it's about to go in when I get a "VxD error device B section 3" or something. It lovingly tells me to run setup again...but I can't ;)

HELP!

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Crashman   08-20-2003 at 03:35:24 AM
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You have a hardware problem, not a software problem.

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Flinx   08-21-2003 at 03:09:27 AM
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Did the old hard disk have something like "On Track" software. (Allows larger drives to work on mobo's with a hardware limitation).

U may need a manufacturer utility to clean up the disk properly.
eg.<A HREF="http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm" target="_new">http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm</A>

see also <b> fdisk /MBR </b> and <b>fdisk /CMBR {n} </b> (where {n} = 1,2..n)



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