| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 54254 | 2005-02-07 22:52:00 | Hard drive question... | lazydog (148) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 322580 | 2005-02-07 22:52:00 | I brought a computer off trademe for the kids to learn on. It's a P11, 300mhz, 3.2gb hd and came with windows 98 loaded plus the windows disc. Under My Computer for hard drive it has "Disc1 [C]" which has 1.99gb as the capacity on it and then it has "Host for C [H:]" which has 1.99gb as the capacity as well. On the Host for c drive, it says that it has 1.24gb of used space on it and under explore it has a folder called data, an icon that says "command" and another icon that says "Rommel.log". My questions are, is this hard drive particioned and is that what the "Host for C [H:] represents. What are those folders on the host drive. What would be involved in changing the drives setup so that i only had the one hard drive. And how does it get nearly 4gb's out of a 3.2 gb hd?. Cheers. |
lazydog (148) | ||
| 322581 | 2005-02-07 22:58:00 | How many drives show up in Control Panel > Device Manager? I don't remember "hosts" been a part of the info in My Computer, what brand of PC is it? | Murray P (44) | ||
| 322582 | 2005-02-07 23:07:00 | Its a Digital Pc 3000 brand computer. In device manager under Disc Drives it has Generic IDE disc type01 and Generic NEC Floppy Disc. |
lazydog (148) | ||
| 322583 | 2005-02-07 23:18:00 | One IDE, the drive partitioned then. Be wary, there may be OS and data recovery files on a hidden partition. Did it come with any CD discs, software, OS, perhaps one called recovery and/or is there a menu where it first boots with options like, recovery, help, diagnostic listed? Leave command alone, it's a system file, in windows explorer (not IE) go View menu, > Folder Options or Options and uncheck Hide System Files or something similar to that wording, to unhide all the system files in the root directory (C: ). Whats in Data? I have no clue what the rommel.log file is used by, do you have a programme installed on there by that name?, for a peek open it up with notepad. Seems like the previous owner has been a bit slack with regard to sanitising the hard drive before selling. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 322584 | 2005-02-07 23:29:00 | I just did a search on google for COMMAND.COM which is one of the icons and it opened up a dos type page?. If you do it can you tell me what its all about. Cheers |
lazydog (148) | ||
| 322585 | 2005-02-07 23:36:00 | Under My Computer for hard drive it has "Disc1 [C]" which has 1.99gb as the capacity on it and then it has "Host for C [H:]" which has 1.99gb as the capacity as well. My questions are, is this hard drive particioned and is that what the "Host for C [H:] represents. What are those folders on the host drive. What would be involved in changing the drives setup so that i only had the one hard drive. And how does it get nearly 4gb's out of a 3.2 gb hd?. Cheers. The reference to H as a host drive for C suggests that the C drive has been compressed using dblspace or drvspace (can't remember which for Win 98). That is why they both show as 1.99Gb. In theory there is also another 1.2Gb somewhere. Win98 can handle greater than 2Gb drives but I wonder whether this machine was upgraded from Win95?? This shouldn't really be a problem, but I would be tempted to delete and recreate partitions via FDISK, format and reload Win98. If there is nothing of relevance to you other than the OS on the PC, that would be your best plan. You have the Win 98 disc and there are plenty people here to assist if you hit any problems. |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 322586 | 2005-02-07 23:38:00 | i think i'll backup that folder then delete it to see what happens. Not to worried if i stuff it up cause its only a play around computer to learn on. I've got a 6gb hard drive laying around that i might put in anyway. Was mainly curious about what the host drive was. Cheers |
lazydog (148) | ||
| 1 | |||||