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Hi another problem with another PC.

I reinstalled Win98 on my daughters AMD K6-400 pc. It running on a REDFOX
AGP-ALI motherboard. I put in a new harddrive Hitachi Deskstar 30G. I had
major problems reinstalling but eventually got the system stable. This
morning a booted up and was busy formatting 1.44M stiffies when the screen
went blank and the PC hard locked. I rebooted and windows reported a number
of files missing during the boot. The PC booted OK except for the files. I
ran SFC and restored a number of files that it reported as deleted.
Everything was fine for a while for an hour then I did a reboot (I wanted to
remove a removable harddrive). The PC wouldn't boot because Win.com was
missing. I booted with Win98 CD and looked under the windows directory for
Win.com, but it was missing.

What's up. I don't think it was a virus as the installation was new
(previous day) and the PC does not connect to the internet. I rescanned the
stiffies on my WinXP machine which has AVG on and it reported no virus on
the removable disk of stiffies. The removable disk is not the boot disk.

Any ideas?

Thanks in anticipation

"" <rmhill@webnospamail> wrote in news:3f981dcc$0$64719
@hades.is.co.za:

> Any ideas?

Is the hard drive new and tested?

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"" <rmhill@webnospamail> wrote in message
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> Hi another problem with another PC.
>
> I reinstalled Win98 on my daughters AMD K6-400 pc. It running on a REDFOX
> AGP-ALI motherboard. I put in a new harddrive Hitachi Deskstar 30G. I had
> major problems reinstalling but eventually got the system stable. This
> morning a booted up and was busy formatting 1.44M stiffies when the screen
> went blank and the PC hard locked. I rebooted and windows reported a
number
> of files missing during the boot. The PC booted OK except for the files. I
> ran SFC and restored a number of files that it reported as deleted.
> Everything was fine for a while for an hour then I did a reboot (I wanted
to
> remove a removable harddrive). The PC wouldn't boot because Win.com was
> missing. I booted with Win98 CD and looked under the windows directory for
> Win.com, but it was missing.
>
> What's up. I don't think it was a virus as the installation was new
> (previous day) and the PC does not connect to the internet. I rescanned
the
> stiffies on my WinXP machine which has AVG on and it reported no virus on
> the removable disk of stiffies. The removable disk is not the boot disk.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
>

i;d do a RAM check (or substitute)

if the RAM is ok...do a harddrive dignostic test
(software should be avail from the mfg)

wrote:
>
> I reinstalled Win98 on my daughters AMD K6-400 pc. It running on a REDFOX
> AGP-ALI motherboard. I put in a new harddrive Hitachi Deskstar 30G. I had
> major problems reinstalling but eventually got the system stable. This

Offhand just reading what you wrote it somehow seems that the HDD wasn't
setup correctly.

>From: "" rmhill@webnospamail
>Newsgroups: alt.computer
>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:29:06 +0200

>
>Hi another problem with another PC.
>
>I reinstalled Win98 on my daughters AMD K6-400 pc. It running on a REDFOX
>AGP-ALI motherboard. I put in a new harddrive Hitachi Deskstar 30G. I had
>major problems reinstalling but eventually got the system stable. This
>morning a booted up and was busy formatting 1.44M stiffies when the screen
>went blank and the PC hard locked. I rebooted and windows reported a number
>of files missing during the boot. The PC booted OK except for the files. I
>ran SFC and restored a number of files that it reported as deleted.
>Everything was fine for a while for an hour then I did a reboot (I wanted to
>remove a removable harddrive). The PC wouldn't boot because Win.com was
>missing. I booted with Win98 CD and looked under the windows directory for
>Win.com, but it was missing.
>
>What's up. I don't think it was a virus as the installation was new
>(previous day) and the PC does not connect to the internet. I rescanned the
>stiffies on my WinXP machine which has AVG on and it reported no virus on
>the removable disk of stiffies. The removable disk is not the boot disk.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks in anticipation

You said the HDD is in a rack.
Make sure the connection inside the rack is tight.
Make sure the rack is seated tight.
Make sure the lock is locked.



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pAmNot ( caveat lector - reader beware) wrote in
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> You said the HDD is in a rack.
> Make sure the connection inside the rack is tight.
> Make sure the rack is seated tight.
> Make sure the lock is locked.

I don't see where he/she said their boot drive was in a rack...

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Let me elaborate further.

the drive is 2 months old but was working well up to this point.The drive
was first connected to a Win2000 machine and partitioned and formatted. Data
was transferred to it. Everything was fine. Partitioned as FAT32 not NTFS.
Slipped drive into Win98 machine and win98 would not recognise it although
the BIOS would.Repartitioned and formatted using Win98 and drive was then
recognised. I think the original Win2000 machine may have had software on it
to get it to recognise the larger drives.(I forget the name of this type of
software) It was quite an old MB.

PC worked fine for 3 days. I ran the Hitachi Deskstar diagnostic software
and drive passed all tests. Checked memory with Gold memory tester and all
128M tested fine for 1 complete sweep. Ran AVG anti virus this morning and
it did not detect anything. Virus signature were latest available.

However the machine behave well today. Even after 2 reboots.
I think I may know what caused the failures. I have a second drive connected
in a removable drive bay. If I can remember correctly both times I had
problems I had switched off the power to the removable drive while shutting
down PC. This not being the boot drive I did not expect it to have done this
because all problems experienced have been on the boot drive. I would have
thought data on the removable would have possibly been corrupted.

I will monitor the PC over the next few days. If I have any further problems
I will report back.

Thanks for your responses.

R.M.Hill
"DeMoN LaG" <n@a> wrote in message
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> "" <rmhill@webnospamail> wrote in news:3f981dcc$0$64719
> @hades.is.co.za:
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> Is the hard drive new and tested?
>
> --
> AIM: FrznFoodClerk (actually me)
> email: de_on-lag@co_cast.net (_ = m)
> website: under construction
> Need a technician in the south Jersey area?
> email/IM for rates/services

"" <rmhill@webnospamail> wrote in message
news:3f998533$0$...
> Let me elaborate further.
>
> the drive is 2 months old but was working well up to this point.The drive
> was first connected to a Win2000 machine and partitioned and formatted.
Data
> was transferred to it. Everything was fine. Partitioned as FAT32 not NTFS.
> Slipped drive into Win98 machine and win98 would not recognise it although
> the BIOS would.Repartitioned and formatted using Win98 and drive was then
> recognised. I think the original Win2000 machine may have had software on
it
> to get it to recognise the larger drives.(I forget the name of this type
of
> software) It was quite an old MB.
>
> PC worked fine for 3 days. I ran the Hitachi Deskstar diagnostic software
> and drive passed all tests. Checked memory with Gold memory tester and all
> 128M tested fine for 1 complete sweep. Ran AVG anti virus this morning and
> it did not detect anything. Virus signature were latest available.
>
> However the machine behave well today. Even after 2 reboots.
> I think I may know what caused the failures. I have a second drive
connected
> in a removable drive bay. If I can remember correctly both times I had
> problems I had switched off the power to the removable drive while
shutting
> down PC. This not being the boot drive I did not expect it to have done
this
> because all problems experienced have been on the boot drive. I would have
> thought data on the removable would have possibly been corrupted.
>
> I will monitor the PC over the next few days. If I have any further
problems
> I will report back.
>
> Thanks for your responses.

As you're switching a 2nd drive in & out of the system, do you have them
both jumpered as "Cable Select"? I have observed all sorts of strange
behaviour with other jumper configurations when switching drives off.
Grump.

Only the removable is set to cable select.

"Julie" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> "" <rmhill@webnospamail> wrote in message
> news:3f998533$0$...
> > Let me elaborate further.
> >
> > the drive is 2 months old but was working well up to this point.The
drive
> > was first connected to a Win2000 machine and partitioned and formatted.
> Data
> > was transferred to it. Everything was fine. Partitioned as FAT32 not
NTFS.
> > Slipped drive into Win98 machine and win98 would not recognise it
although
> > the BIOS would.Repartitioned and formatted using Win98 and drive was
then
> > recognised. I think the original Win2000 machine may have had software
on
> it
> > to get it to recognise the larger drives.(I forget the name of this type
> of
> > software) It was quite an old MB.
> >
> > PC worked fine for 3 days. I ran the Hitachi Deskstar diagnostic
software
> > and drive passed all tests. Checked memory with Gold memory tester and
all
> > 128M tested fine for 1 complete sweep. Ran AVG anti virus this morning
and
> > it did not detect anything. Virus signature were latest available.
> >
> > However the machine behave well today. Even after 2 reboots.
> > I think I may know what caused the failures. I have a second drive
> connected
> > in a removable drive bay. If I can remember correctly both times I had
> > problems I had switched off the power to the removable drive while
> shutting
> > down PC. This not being the boot drive I did not expect it to have done
> this
> > because all problems experienced have been on the boot drive. I would
have
> > thought data on the removable would have possibly been corrupted.
> >
> > I will monitor the PC over the next few days. If I have any further
> problems
> > I will report back.
> >
> > Thanks for your responses.
>
> As you're switching a 2nd drive in & out of the system, do you have them
> both jumpered as "Cable Select"? I have observed all sorts of strange
> behaviour with other jumper configurations when switching drives off.
> Grump.
>
>