This question is probably VERY complicated or so simple I can't see the obvious answer for myself. My niece inherited this equipment from another family member and it needs help.
The problem is this:
One old model of Compaq 5404 has TWO 2 Ghz hard drives, with three drive letters. The third is for all that neat stuff that Compaq feels is necessary. This computer has
42 MB of memory.. It has been working, but lately has begun to have many problems including (but not the only one) a shell32.dll internal error. The 'offical' MS q&a did not fix this either.
I feel that many of the gremlins started once I scandisked and defragged this unit. It has not been done in a little over 800 days. :dead: I am unable to access very little since they took over.
The harddrives are jumpered correctly as a Master and Slave on the same IDE channel. Once I fdisk and reformat, then install Win98 will it handle accessing the drives or do I have to do something in order for that to happen? Or do I have to do that to both hard drives independently?
This should not be a real big problem, but it is really causing me some mental anguish here.
I will be loading an Office Suite and an Internet connection, software for a Palm and Norton AntiVirus.
I checked on the Compaq site and downloaded the necessary drivers and even the bios upgrade (in case I need that as well). And how do I find out which Phoenix bios ID it has. I do not feel the second hard drive is stanard on this model but it is there none the less. I could not find any documentation on two hard drives and have surfed and read until I am extremely fed up. So can any of you help me? I truely hope so! :winkgrin:
Thanks CyberMom
The problem is this:
One old model of Compaq 5404 has TWO 2 Ghz hard drives, with three drive letters. The third is for all that neat stuff that Compaq feels is necessary. This computer has
I feel that many of the gremlins started once I scandisked and defragged this unit. It has not been done in a little over 800 days. :dead: I am unable to access very little since they took over.
The harddrives are jumpered correctly as a Master and Slave on the same IDE channel. Once I fdisk and reformat, then install Win98 will it handle accessing the drives or do I have to do something in order for that to happen? Or do I have to do that to both hard drives independently?
This should not be a real big problem, but it is really causing me some mental anguish here.
I will be loading an Office Suite and an Internet connection, software for a Palm and Norton AntiVirus.
I checked on the Compaq site and downloaded the necessary drivers and even the bios upgrade (in case I need that as well). And how do I find out which Phoenix bios ID it has. I do not feel the second hard drive is stanard on this model but it is there none the less. I could not find any documentation on two hard drives and have surfed and read until I am extremely fed up. So can any of you help me? I truely hope so! :winkgrin:
Thanks CyberMom