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/?kbid=216752
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/?kbid=272242
Filemon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
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/?kbid=189000
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/?kbid=131690
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/?kbid=142253
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/?kbid=145808
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/?kbid=159153
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/?kbid=262232
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/?kbid=51978
Missing Drives in My Computer and Windows Explorer
When you view My Computer or Windows Explorer, some or all of your drives may be missing. When you view Device Manager, the missing drives may be displayed, and you may be able to gain access to the drives by clicking Start, clicking Run, typing the drive letter in the Open box, and then clicking OK. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191579
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/?kbid=229177
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/?kbid=246818
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
"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/?kbid=191824
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/?kbid=193683
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/?kbid=195817
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/?kbid=235265
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/?kbid=51978
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/?kbid=69912
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
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
GETDRVS.ZIP
Uses two API functions: one to identify all valid drives on the system, and one to identify the type of each drive (fixed, removable [floppy], remote [network], CDROM or RAM disk).(2KB) http://home.fuse.net/lweiner/
Driveexists
How to Determine if a Specific Drive Exists with VB code. http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/shell/driveexists.htm
Winsite DRVSPACE.ZIP Get drive space remaining using API.(VB4) FSR.ZIP Free system resources. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6740/allfiles.htm