Is your hard drive failing? Run scandisk ussing a thero test, and uncheck
the box that says automatically fix errors. Then run disk defragmenter.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jed Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: win 98 problem please help
> Hey there. There are no partitions on drive D. It is all one drive. OK,
> i just went and created a folder, and right after i created it, it showed
up.
> After i did a re-boot on the machine the folder went away. I tried doing
a
> search and nothing was found. Any info would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Jed
> At 09:07 PM 10/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi, Jed. Do you have multiple partitions on your hard drive? If so, the
> >zip drive may be taking over drive D and your files are being copied to
one
> >of the partitions on your hard drive. For example, if your zip drive is
now
> >drive D, you might have partitions on main drive C, zip drive = D, then
more
> >partitions on E and perhaps a cd-rom drive. If you know some of the
files
> >and folders you've copied, perhaps you could remove the zip drive and do
a
> >search on a unique file or folder on your whole computer rather then just
> >one drive. Do this by pressing start fine, then choose computer. Or
thanks
> >to an enlightened colleague's message from this list, press
control-windows
> >key plus F simultaneously. Enter the file name and hopefully you can
find
> >the folders or files you're looking for. If I can help further, please
> >e-mail me privately.
> >
> >=Beth=
> >=Beth Hatch-Alleyne=
> >Justice Means Not Just Us.
> >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Jed Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: 23 October, 1999 1:48 PM
> >Subject: win 98 problem please help
> >
> >
> >> Hey guys. OK, i just spent the past hour trying to fix this and got no
> >where.
> >> Here is my situation.
> >> I have a few very important folders of files on the zip drive. I
copied
> >> them one at a time on to my drive on the system. After copying, they
all
> >> showed up just fine.
> >> Now, i did a re-boot on my system. Many of the folders disappeared,
and
> >so
> >> did a lot of the files that were in them. This is a huge problem
because
> >> all of these files have lots of important data in them.
> >> If anyone has experienced this problem, please let me know. I loved 98
> >> until now. Basicly stuff isn't copying anywhere and this really
concerns
> >> me. Info would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Jed
> >>
> >>
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