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I will research this before I do anything. That is what I do after all. Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't thought about it being necessary or possible to keep a back up hard drive secure from viruses etc. I guess this is why external back up hard drives are popular. I never liked external...

Hi anti-trend, Thanks for the comments. I will remember what you said when I build my new PC. It will have a socket 939 motherboard for an AMD processor. I already have these two Maxtor 40 gig drives, so I will used them until they quit working. I will no doubt get my moneys worh, they were less...

Thanks for the comment, You are right about not using all of the second 40gig drive for backing up. I will have no more than 1/3 of the C: drive used normally. (I don't collect tunes or videos so 40 gigs is enough for most of what I do) I will remember your suggestion when I format and partition...

I don't seem to be getting any comments on using RAID and the Mirror function. Lets see if I can clear up my question and I might have changed my mind in favor of a more simple approach to what I wanted to accomplish. First, would it have been worth the effort attempting this with W98se with the...

About the life of Hard Drives. I have seen comments from people on every brand saying this or that brand is to be avoided. I think what the determining factor really for how long any hard drive will last is heat. I felt the hard drives after a PC was on a while in a few PCs and they all seemed...

Anti Trend, Yes there is a question. I need to know how to go about trying to do what I tried to give the facts on. (The only RAID I have ever used comes in a can.) I believe what you say about Maxtor hard drives, but I have not had that much trouble with the other 5, I have purchased. I only...

I have a new ATA 133 controller card, It happens to be a RAID controller also. I recently installed a new Maxtor 40 gig, ATA 133 hard drive on it and it is working great. I have another new identical 40 gig Maxtor that I haven't even formatted yet. I never have tried RAID yet in any form. Hard...

Hi Yuchao719, I wondered about that myself, but it wasn't mentioned in the MS KnowledgeBase article I found so I tried something else for now. Anti-Trend gave me a big hint by wanting me to post my [vcache] from the system.ini file. [vcache] is all there was so I Googled [vcache] parameters and...

Hi BCDunn, Lets see if I can help keep the thinking going on this. I had a cdrom that would work one day then not the next like you are saying. It has been 3 or 4 years ago and what I can remember fixing it was completely going over the basics. I made sure it was not on the same IDE as the HD...

A-T I figured I would edit my original reply and that turns out to be a bit more difficult to do than post the 386Enh file, lets see if it qualifies to be submitted now.

This is interesting, let me see if I can find my way to post it as you suggest. I have never done this. [vcache] [386Enh] device= ebios=*ebios woafont=dosapp.fon mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd device=*dynapage device=*vcd device=*vpd device=*int13...

I built this computer myself using an Epox MB. Maybe the W98SE update disk added the line of code ending in a 0? I researched this a bit further elsewhere myself and found that a blank line should follow the line of code, it didn't have a blank line so I added one. I realized I needed to reboot...

Thanks for the quick reply and suggestion. I already had the line where you say but it ended in 0, so I changed the 0 to 1. Now I will try it this way and see if that fixes it. (Do you suppose an installation of a software program might have changed it to a 0, since the line was already there.)

I have a K6-2+ 550 with 384mb ram and a 40 gig HD and W98SE. I never had this supposedly common memory problem up until lately. I am not a gamer and this system has served me well until now. Every operation, mine or a cookie or whatever uses a bit of memory but when the operation is over the bit...