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Answer» haha. i did it... kinda. I finally got the little HD to be reconized, i got it partioned and formatted, although i think something is wrong, since it too said it was formatted as a [email protected] 22. any ideas about that? No it is not a laptop, and the partion is automaticly set to active.anyway, so i go to do set up, the coumpter does it's self test of the c drive and d drive(the virtual drive) and say there is no trouble, then it says that it is copying the files need to install windows, and it stops responding. the help file said that if that happens, to shut it off, and turn it back on, and run setup again, i do that and this time scan disk says there are a whole world of things wrong with the HD, files being misreported, overlapping, damaged, or not being reported as the correct size, so i have scandisk fix the problems, but one KEEPS poping back up... something like c:/dch00000 , it says it is a damaged file or folder, i'll come back on latter and GIVE you the exact message, then it says that scan disk will delete the folder and basically make a new one, but it is always the same DCH00000 that is always messed up.What is the make and model of this computer? Hope you're going through all this for the "learning experience". Maybe it's time to look for a new "used" computer. [email protected] 22 indicates a BIOS or IDE interface problem. Have you tried a different IDE cable? If one DATA line has interference or a connector is not making solid contact, strange things can happen.well forget about the old computer, and now i get the fun of an even older computer, basically, my friend was over, my computer was on, without the cover, and she spilled her pop on the motherboard, so she gave me her old one to make up for it, now everything works, although the computer won't pick up all 2,112 MB of the old hd it does pick up to 621 if i convince it that is what is installed on it, ready to laugh, the cpu is a intel i456. But as I said It at least works, although I found out that I can not PUT xp on it without a pentium,, but oh well 98se is better, well i like it better. thanks for all your help, oh and yes I was doing all this for the learning exp. this way once my big dog gets up and running, i'll have some idea of what is going on.Repartition the Hard Disk Drive or test its reliability. It may have failed. Keep liquids away from Mainboards. Also keep friends away from your PC. Quote ...spilled her pop on the motherboard,.. It can be CLEANED, if you're up to the task. There's probably some goop preventing contact on one pin of one connector.Cleaned? Are you making fun of me? The thing was blowing smoke, and sparking, I'd say there was some serious goop going on. But I took your advice, looked into a used computer and got this nice little deal :-/ It works, and the hdd problem is fixed, eccept that it won't read all of the hd, like before, I could make the old computer think the hd was a 621, by playing around with the numbers a litle, but it wouldn't show all 2 gigs. same with this one, only it won't show past 508mb, when i go into setup, i auto decect the hd, it says 2118mb.ok, that is what it is, I go to fdisk while setting up win 98 se, and fdisk says max size is only 508mb. So I said screw it, I took the 508 and ran, but i'd like to get it all to show up, I have sent for a bios update, but don't know if it will work or not, anyway, if anybody has an answer to this, feel free to email me at my new email address. I'm online most of the time now that i got the computer working good enough for internet. Oh if you look in "formatting a hard drive" posted by me, you can find my motherboard and cpu info. And yes Raptor, I fully plan on keeping all liquids and friends away from my pc Here's an article you'll want to read: Hard disk drive is only being seen as a 504/540MB hard disk drive. Quote Cleaned? Are you making fun of me? :... No. I didn't understand how many computers you were referring to. I think this is #3? The 1st one which your friend blew up, the 2nd which you were having the trouble with the IDE, and now the 3rd which only sees 508MB? Commando...relax a little, i was joking about you making fun of me. and yes this is computer number3. and for as slow as it is, at least it is working, and I found that if I make a partion on another computer that does read all of my drive, then this one will read that partion. so problem fixed. Raptor and commando, you guys have been great, thank you for all your help, feel free to e-mail me, I'll leave my profile here for you to get the address. PS-Commando I like your little troll looking thing with the sign. You know Kung Fu? Well I know Tae Kwon Do Quote feel free to e-mail me We've leave that to the cable guy. come back anytime.Eww No thanks, he smelled like a dung heap.

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haha. i did it... kinda. I finally got the little HD to be reconized, i got it partioned and formatted, although i think something is wrong, since it too said it was formatted as a [email protected] 22. any ideas about that? No it is not a laptop, and the partion is automaticly set to active.anyway, so i go to do set up, the coumpter does it's self test of the c drive and d drive(the virtual drive) and say there is no trouble, then it says that it is copying the files need to install windows, and it stops responding. the help file said that if that happens, to shut it off, and turn it back on, and run setup again, i do that and this time scan disk says there are a whole world of things wrong with the HD, files being misreported, overlapping, damaged, or not being reported as the correct size, so i have scandisk fix the problems, but one KEEPS poping back up... something like c:/dch00000 , it says it is a damaged file or folder, i'll come back on latter and GIVE you the exact message, then it says that scan disk will delete the folder and basically make a new one, but it is always the same DCH00000 that is always messed up.What is the make and model of this computer? Hope you're going through all this for the "learning experience". Maybe it's time to look for a new "used" computer. [email protected] 22 indicates a BIOS or IDE interface problem. Have you tried a different IDE cable? If one DATA line has interference or a connector is not making solid contact, strange things can happen.well forget about the old computer, and now i get the fun of an even older computer, basically, my friend was over, my computer was on, without the cover, and she spilled her pop on the motherboard, so she gave me her old one to make up for it, now everything works, although the computer won't pick up all 2,112 MB of the old hd it does pick up to 621 if i convince it that is what is installed on it, ready to laugh, the cpu is a intel i456. But as I said It at least works, although I found out that I can not PUT xp on it without a pentium,, but oh well 98se is better, well i like it better. thanks for all your help, oh and yes I was doing all this for the learning exp. this way once my big dog gets up and running, i'll have some idea of what is going on.Repartition the Hard Disk Drive or test its reliability. It may have failed.

Keep liquids away from Mainboards. Also keep friends away from your PC. Quote

...spilled her pop on the motherboard,..

It can be CLEANED, if you're up to the task.
There's probably some goop preventing contact on one pin of one connector.Cleaned? Are you making fun of me? The thing was blowing smoke, and sparking, I'd say there was some serious goop going on. But I took your advice, looked into a used computer and got this nice little deal :-/ It works, and the hdd problem is fixed, eccept that it won't read all of the hd, like before, I could make the old computer think the hd was a 621, by playing around with the numbers a litle, but it wouldn't show all 2 gigs. same with this one, only it won't show past 508mb, when i go into setup, i auto decect the hd, it says 2118mb.ok, that is what it is, I go to fdisk while setting up win 98 se, and fdisk says max size is only 508mb. So I said screw it, I took the 508 and ran, but i'd like to get it all to show up, I have sent for a bios update, but don't know if it will work or not, anyway, if anybody has an answer to this, feel free to email me at my new email address. I'm online most of the time now that i got the computer working good enough for internet. Oh if you look in "formatting a hard drive" posted by me, you can find my motherboard and cpu info. And yes Raptor, I fully plan on keeping all liquids and friends away from my pc Here's an article you'll want to read: Hard disk drive is only being seen as a 504/540MB hard disk drive. Quote

Cleaned? Are you making fun of me? :...

No. I didn't understand how many computers you were referring to. I think this is #3? The 1st one which your friend blew up, the 2nd which you were having the trouble with the IDE, and now the 3rd which only sees 508MB?
Commando...relax a little, i was joking about you making fun of me. and yes this is computer number3. and for as slow as it is, at least it is working, and I found that if I make a partion on another computer that does read all of my drive, then this one will read that partion. so problem fixed. Raptor and commando, you guys have been great, thank you for all your help, feel free to e-mail me, I'll leave my profile here for you to get the address.

PS-Commando I like your little troll looking thing with the sign. You know Kung Fu? Well I know Tae Kwon Do Quote

feel free to e-mail me

We've leave that to the cable guy.

come back anytime.Eww No thanks, he smelled like a dung heap.

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