Disk Drive & Drives

• Windows 95 Accesses the Floppy Disk Drive at Startup
  When you start Windows 95 normally or in Safe mode, the floppy disk drive may be accessed.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q185619 (W95 Dec. 17, 2000)
  
  
• Floppy Disk Drive Is Active When Opening or Saving Files
  While you are using your computer, your computer may randomly try to use the floppy disk drive, and this may also occur when you open or save files from various programs.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q216752 (W95/98/ME May. 16, 2001)
  
  
• Floppy Drive Is Accessed When You Open My Computer
  When you double-click the My Computer icon on the desktop, your computer may access the floppy drive for several seconds before displaying the contents of My Computer.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q272242 (W95/98/se Jun. 11, 2002)

• Making a boot disk with CD-ROM support.
  http://www.hildrum.com/boot_disk.html
  
  
• Making a boot disk for windows 98.
  http://www.hildrum.com/installing_win98__and_making_a_b.htm

• Error Message: Error Writing to Drive C:
  When you start Windows 98, you may receive the following error message on a blue screen:
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q189000 (W98 May. 15, 2001)
  
  
• Computer Hangs After Upgrade to Windows 98 with EtherFast Card
  Disk write error, unable to write to disk in drive C, data or files may be lost.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q192844 (W98 May. 15, 2001)

• Troubleshooting DMF Floppy Disks
  Troubleshooting Distribution Media Format (DMF) Floppy Disks.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q118580 (W95/98/se Feb. 8, 2002)
  
  
• OFF: Troubleshooting DMF Issues
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q124970 (Office Feb. 5, 2002)
  
  
• Troubleshooting Floppy Disk Drive Problems in Windows
  If you are having problems with a floppy disk drive (such as receiving the error message "Error reading drive < X >:" or if the status of your floppy disk drive in Device Manager is listed in MS-DOS Compatibility mode).
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q131690 (W95/98/se Jul. 24, 2001)
  
  
• Unable to Read from Floppy Disk Drive on Laptop Computer
  Windows 95 may not be able to read data from floppy disk drives on some Toshiba laptop computers that are running the upgrade version of Windows 95.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q142253 (W95 Mar. 25, 2002)
  
  
• Cannot Access Floppy Disk Drives after Changing Drive Letters
  After you change floppy disk drive letters in your computer's CMOS settings, Windows may continue to access the drives using their original drive letters.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q145808 (W95/98 Jul. 24, 2001)
  
  
• Error Messages While Backing Up to Some Floppy Disk Drives (W95)
  Warning: Tape needs to be erased before operation can proceed.
  Microsoft Backup unable to read from the disk or network drive. Quit and restart Backup, and then try again.
  Warning: This operation has been canceled by the system
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q159153 (W95 May. 20, 2002)
  
  
• MacDrive 98 Cannot Read Macintosh-Formatted Floppy Disk
  The disk in drive drive letter is not formatted. Do you wish to format it right now?
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q242463 (W98 May. 8, 2002)
  
  
• Floppy Disk May Be Unreadable or Computer Hangs with LS-120 Drive
  After you start Windows 98 Second Edition for the first time with a floppy disk inserted in an LS-120 drive, your computer may stop responding (hang) or your floppy disk may be unreadable from Windows Explorer.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q262232 (W98 May. 8, 2002)

• Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive letters
  Microsoft MS-DOS assigns drive letters to the first two physical floppy disk drives and hard disk drives it finds at boot time in a fixed sequence, including multiple partitions and logical drives on the hard disks. You cannot change this sequence.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q51978 (W95/98/ME Dec. 28, 2001)
  
  
• Logical Block Addressing (LBA) Defined.
  Logical Block Addressing (LBA) is a method of accessing hard disk drives.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q122052 (W95 Dec 17, 2000)
  
  
• Hard Disk Volume Label Missing After Formatting in Windows
  This issue can occur if you format your hard disk during a Windows session and assign it a volume label without restarting your computer.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q229177 (W98/se May. 15, 2001)
  
  
• Volume Label Not Displayed in Windows Explorer or My Computer
  This issue can occur if you label the disk using the Format command in Windows Explorer or at an MS-DOS prompt.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q232943 (W98se Jun. 9, 1999)
  
  
• Windows 95 Does Not Support Hard Disks Larger Than 32 GB
  Hard disks and other media larger than 32 GB in size were not available at the time Windows 95 and subsequent Windows 95 OEM Service Releases were developed.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q246818 (W95 Jul. 27, 2001)
  
  
• OFFXP: Hard Disk Runs Continuously After You Install Office XP
  After you install Microsoft Office XP, your computer's hard disk may run continuously.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q282106 (Aug. 29, 2001)
  
  
• Adding a new Hard Disk
  A article as to how you should proceed if you intent to add a new Hard Disk. It explains the conditions which will take place with the naming convention C: D: E: F: etc...
  http://www.hildrum.com/harddriveadd.html
  
  
• Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk
  http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-035

• Low Disk Space Notification Received When Drive is Full
  Cannot create or replace < file > : There is not enough free disk space.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q188074 (W98 Jul. 27, 2001)
  
  
• "Hard Disk Is Low on Disk Space" Message
  When free disk space on your computer falls below a specific level (threshold), you may receive the following message or one similar to it:
  Hard Disk is Low on Disk Space.
  You are running out of disk space on drive C.
  To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click Disk Cleanup.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q191824 (W98 Jan. 24, 1999)
  
  
• How to Disable "Low on Disk Space" Warning in Windows 98
  In certain situations, such as a computer with compressed drives, Windows 98 may repeatedly warn you that a host drive is low on disk space.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q193683 (W98 Jan. 30, 1999)
  
  
• Free Hard Disk Space Decreases for No Apparent Reason
  Each time you start the computer, there may be less disk space available for use.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q299266 (ME Jan. 29, 2002)
  
  
• Err Msg: The Decompression of %failed
  The decompression of %failed. There may not be enough disk space available in the TEMP directory.
  Setup can not find a location on your hard drive for necessary files.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q195817 (W98/se Jun. 11, 2002)
  
  
• Err Msg: The Decompression of %s Failed. There May Not Be...
  When you try to install a program that uses InstallShield, you may receive the following error message:
  The Decompression of %s failed. There may not be enough free disk space.
  Also, you may receive this error message even if you have sufficient free disk space on the destination drive.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q235265 (W95/98/se May. 8, 2002)

• Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters
  Microsoft MS-DOS assigns drive letters to the first two physical floppy disk drives and hard disk drives it finds at boot time in a fixed sequence, including multiple partitions and logical drives on the hard disks. You cannot change this sequence.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q51978 (W95/98/ME Dec. 28, 2001)
  
  
• MS-DOS Partitioning Summary
  A hard disk's master boot record (MBR) is located in the first sector of the disk (cylinder 0, side 0, sector 1). The partition table is located at offset 01BE, containing up to four 16-byte entries. The fourth byte of each partition table entry is used to mark the partition type.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q69912 (W95/98 Dec. 28, 2001)
  
  
• Maximum Partition Size Using FAT16 File System
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q118335 (W95/98/se/ME Dec. 28, 2001)
  
  
• How to Use Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Re-partition a Hard Disk
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q255867 (W95/98/se/ME Sept. 25, 2001)
  
  
• Unable to Delete a Partition or Logical DOS Drive Using the Fdisk Utility
  Cannot delete Extended DOS Partition while logical drives exist . or No Logical Drives defined.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q261473 (W95/98/se/ME Mar. 22, 2001)
  
  
• Ranish Partition Manager
  Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.
  http://www.ranish.com/part/
  
  
• Partitions and Volumes
  Some facts about partitions. You can also go down two directories for more information i.e.: http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/
  http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/BOOT/PARTITIO.HTM
  
  
• Radified - Fdisk Guide to Hard Drive Partitioning.
  Some facts and how to of partitions.
  http://fdisk.radified.com

• Hewlett-Packard Colorado Backup Does Not Detect Your Tape Drive
  When you try to use Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Colorado Backup for Windows 95 program in Windows 98, Colorado Backup does not detect your tape drive.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q189870 (W98 Feb. 13, 1999)
  
  
• Tape Backup Units Supported by the Windows 98 Backup Program
  This article lists the tape backup units supported by the Microsoft Backup program included with Windows 98.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q242864 (W98/se Jul. 25, 2001)

• UTILITIES: DiskAction
  Have you ever wondered why your hard disk suddenly starts cranking away-seemingly of its own volition-when you're not even sitting at the computer?
  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,8290,00.asp