07-16-2006, 06:06 PM
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#381
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Originally Posted by cSpooge
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Thanks for that.
I tried to put a floppy disk in and it wouldn't let me format it. I tried four of them with the same result. I then tried to simply extract the files to the A drive and it wouldn't let me. It said: Cannot create folder A:\
My A drive is f'd?
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07-16-2006, 06:57 PM
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#382
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Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze
Thanks for that.
I tried to put a floppy disk in and it wouldn't let me format it. I tried four of them with the same result. I then tried to simply extract the files to the A drive and it wouldn't let me. It said: Cannot create folder A:\
My A drive is f'd?
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Could be. Can you remove it from the device manager and then re-boot? That will allow windows to refresh it (sort of). That description is also similar to mal-ware issues.
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—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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07-16-2006, 07:10 PM
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#383
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If I understand correctly, you are asking me to essentially unplug the A drive, reboot the computer...then? Upon rebooting, plug A drive back in while it's on or turn computer off, plug it back in and then turn it on again?
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07-16-2006, 07:37 PM
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#384
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze
If I understand correctly, you are asking me to essentially unplug the A drive, reboot the computer...then? Upon rebooting, plug A drive back in while it's on or turn computer off, plug it back in and then turn it on again?
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Not physically unplug it. Just in the Operating system point of view.
You need to fing your "Device Manager" (Control Panel - System - Hardware Tab)
You should see 2 Sections called "floppy disk controller" and "Floppy disk Drive". If they are there, and there are coloured exclamation points or question marks then windows knows it has an issue. What you then do is right-click on the thing that has a problem and say uninstall. Then you can either reboot, or click on "Scan for hardware changes" and Windows will then "see" that there is a floppy drive and install the driver for it (I haven't seen a floppy drive windows didn't already have a driver for in a long time).
If that doesn't work, then I would guess your drive is bad (it happens) or it is a virus or other type of malware. I would do a complete virus scan using whatever I had installed, and Trendmicro's Housecall (a free online scanner). If they don't find anything, then I would find a floppy drive I know is working , and switch it the potentially bad drive. IF the new drive worked, then I know the old drive is bad and throw it out. If the new one didn't work either, then I would need to come up with some more ideas. 
That should get you started. (And BTW, be careful about deleting stuff in the device manager. A lot of things you can fix the way I mentioned, but other things in there will 'break' Windows if you try to remove them. The Floppy drive & controller are safe (I just did it to be sure))
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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07-16-2006, 07:48 PM
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#385
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Thanks for all the help Bobblehead, but no exclamation points or question marks by those in the device manager. I will try some of the other things you suggested, though.
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07-19-2006, 10:10 AM
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#387
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Which version?
In 2000, you click on Organize, then select the Rules Wizard.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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07-19-2006, 10:22 AM
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#388
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Outlook 2000.
Found it, thanks.
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07-23-2006, 08:57 AM
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#389
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
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font size
ooops...........forget it. Figured it out as soon as I posted here.
Last edited by KootenayFlamesFan; 07-23-2006 at 08:59 AM.
Reason: found what I was looking for.
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07-27-2006, 08:37 PM
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#390
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
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I try to start up IE and it crashes right on the spot, any ideas on how to fix it
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07-27-2006, 10:13 PM
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#391
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try reinstalling... or better yet... use Mozilla Firefox
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07-30-2006, 10:05 AM
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#392
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First Line Centre
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outlook express
When I try to open outlook express through the tools menu in firefox, I keep getting a teal colored window opening up saying "error - shutting down". It doesnt do anything else, just stays there till I close it. I can open it through the start up menu or through IE, but cant in firefox now. Not sure if someone messed with something, they say they didnt, and I didnt...so not sure whats goin on here. Any clues?
Thanks
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07-31-2006, 09:25 PM
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#393
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Scoring Winger
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Anyone know a good hard drive partitioning tool? I'm looking to split my 120GB HD so i can dual boot linux but i need to partiton it first.
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08-01-2006, 09:17 AM
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#394
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Originally Posted by cSpooge
Anyone know a good hard drive partitioning tool? I'm looking to split my 120GB HD so i can dual boot linux but i need to partiton it first.
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I'm assuming this is your Windows drive as well, and you want to shring it to make room for linux? Some of the distros have a partitioning tool built in to help you in just such a circumstance. That is what I would check out first. I've also read a few good things about NTFS Resizer as well, and it is free, but I haven't had any experience with it.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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08-01-2006, 09:24 AM
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#395
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by cSpooge
Anyone know a good hard drive partitioning tool? I'm looking to split my 120GB HD so i can dual boot linux but i need to partiton it first.
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I think I have an older version of Partition Magic that I still use... I've had no problems with it...
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08-01-2006, 05:43 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I'm assuming this is your Windows drive as well, and you want to shring it to make room for linux? Some of the distros have a partitioning tool built in to help you in just such a circumstance. That is what I would check out first. I've also read a few good things about NTFS Resizer as well, and it is free, but I haven't had any experience with it. |
its just gonna be my storage on the other part of the drive.. im thinking of splitting off 30GBs for linux and then use the rest as windows storage for my music/movies/etc.
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08-02-2006, 08:27 AM
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#397
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by cSpooge
its just gonna be my storage on the other part of the drive.. im thinking of splitting off 30GBs for linux and then use the rest as windows storage for my music/movies/etc.
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That makes it easy. So you are saying this is just going to be a slave drive.
Install the drive. When you go install linux, it will partition the new drive for you. If you format the other half as FAT32 then both Windows and Linux will have access to that storage.
Good luck. I'm a linux novice, but it is always good to know multiple operating systems.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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08-02-2006, 08:37 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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And there are packages you can install to access your NTFS partition.
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08-04-2006, 11:55 AM
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#399
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by gottabekd
And there are packages you can install to access your NTFS partition.
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Access, but I don't think you can write to them, can you?
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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08-04-2006, 06:11 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Too lazy to look it up, but yes, able to write to it. I think there is an 'extra' package that you can install to read/write NTFS.
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