[TechAssist] Re: Computer help.
- From: Ed Gaidies <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:28:13 -0500
Western Digital also has a couple of programs on their Website, one
is called Dataguard, and another called Hard Drive Utilities. If the
H/D Model is listed....match it up with the Operating System you are
using, and put the whole program on a floppy for booting. Then set up
your drive according to Instructions. Important to have correct
settings for your drive(s) before you start though. DOS Fdisk and
Format works, but you need to know what you are trying to do.
I use only Maxtor drives myself, and MaxBlast Boot Software is about
as easy as it gets. But Western Digital use the above mentioned program.
Good Luck Mando. And don't forget...after you have it set up for the
Internet....Winzip will have to be downloaded and installed, (again).;-)
-Ed-
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
teltek@xxxxxxxxx
"Learn from past mistakes.Or you are bound to repeat them"
On Nov 11, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Armando Guerra wrote:
> Thanks David for your input.Will try EZ-Drive over the weekend and
> hopefully
> I can make it work ok.
> Mando
> AZ
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> From: "David Lessard" <mr_fixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:53 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Computer help.
>
>
>
>> Good points Gary, also you can't just slap in another hard drive from
>> another system because the drivers, configuration, etc. are all
>> for the
>> system the hard drive came out of. Check the points Gary mentions
>>
> especially
>
>> setting up the boot drive as the master drive. You still may have
>> to use
>> EZ-Drive to allow the motherboard to even see the hard drive, then
>> you
>> should beable to format it. I'd do this stuff in DOS first then
>> for sure
>> Windows should see the hard drive when all is done. Good luck.
>>
>> David Lessard
>> mr_fixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Alexandria, Ontario, Canada
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Gary McCartney <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:45 PM
>> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Computer help.
>>
>>
>>
>>> you set the 6.4 gig for slave but did you set the 1.2 gig for
>>> master? Is
>>> the IDE cable plugged properly into the hard drive (red stripe on
>>> cable
>>> goes toward the power connector). Also, has the 6 gig been
>>> formatted,
>>> and if it is formatted, is it formatted in Fat 16 or Fat 32?
>>> Windows 95
>>> was only capable of Fat 16 formatted drives, although Windows 95B
>>> could
>>> handle Fat 32. Another thing that I am not sure I remember
>>> correctly is
>>> that I think Windows 95 could only have hard drive partiotions at
>>> 2.1 gb
>>> max. If this is correct, then you need to divide the 6 gig into 3
>>> partitions. Use FDISK on your bootup floppy to partition the drives,
>>> then format them.
>>>
>>> Gary McCartney
>>> McCartney Electronics,
>>> Guelph ON Canada
>>>
>>>
>>> armando guerra wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> My neighbor has an older computer with win 95,1.2gig hd and its
>>>> just
>>>> about full.She likes this computer alot because its easy to
>>>>
> run,compared
>
>>>> to win xp and others.I am not a computer savey guy so I would
>>>> apreciate
>>>> some help.Her hd is just about full.She uses the computer for small
>>>> stuff i,e, email and navigating the internet.Here is where I
>>>> need some
>>>> help.Her daughter gave her a 6 gig hd (somebody told her that
>>>> was the
>>>> max she could use)because of the age of the comp.Its a new western
>>>> digital brand of hd.There is no paper work with the hd at all.I
>>>> installed it last night as a slave (I did move the jumpers to slave
>>>> position) and when I put it all together,it boots up but It never
>>>>
> brings
>
>>>> up the win 95.
>>>> It just sits there and say"s "wait" for the longest time and stay's
>>>> there.I can restart it again and it does the same thing,just say's
>>>> wait.I thing that the bios is not seeing the new hd but don't
>>>> know.Like
>>>> I say,don't know much about computers.I am i missing some
>>>> software that
>>>> comes along with the new hd or what?If I disconnect the new hd
>>>> and just
>>>> use the old one,everything goes back to normal.loads win 95 and
>>>> all is
>>>> ok.Can I go to the western digital website and dnload something
>>>> that
>>>> will help in installing this new hd?I would apreciate all the
>>>> help that
>>>> I can get from you computer smart guy's and gal's.Thanks.
>>>> Mando
>>>> AZ
>>>> PS Is there a website that I can go to where I can learn more
>>>> about
>>>> upgrading a computer?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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