[SEDXC] [SECC] Shack W98 PC has problems

[Gary McConville]

Dave,

How much disk space do you have left on your boot drive?  If it's under
10M you'll have problems as such.  Also, get rid of all those .tmp
files and ones in your temp directories.  Save off those memory hog pix
files and such.  Hope this helps...


--- David  Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com> wrote:

> My W98V 2 shack PC has a problem.  Its a P3 500Mhz with 2 hard disks
> of 8GB
> and 20GB.  I have all the CQ 160 files on it.  I can recover but
> maybe you
> PC techies can help me.
> 
> It was running all right last night and this morning it started with
> no
> enough memory to run Norton.  I looked at the directories and shut
> down a
> couple of routines I did not recognize. I did a control alt delete
> and scandisk started.  About 80% thru it told me I needed to run
> windowns
> scandisk.  Apparently the guy who set it up put dos scandisk in the
> directory.  The reason it asked for windows is that it encountered
> long file names.  It finally said it was crosslisting these long file
> names
> but could not repair them (I hope not HI).  It finished and now the
> PC does
> not run.
> 
> It brings up the W 98 page and when you try to get the screen to
> pause
> nothing happens.  I have a W 98 boot diskette but apparently the
> floppy disk
> drive is not reading.  It just goes to the W 98 page and sits there.
> 
> Before I start trying to rebuild the CQ 160 files on my newer W XP 3
> ghz PC
> with one 160GB hard drive (it will take a week or more) does anyone
> have any
> ideas.
> I can probably read everything that I need but W 98 off the C drive
> if its
> OK.  Scandisk runs on it OK so I assume my problem is getting the PC
> started.
> 
> Thanks and 73
> Dave K4JRB
> 
> 
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