When inserting a 40 GB or larger drive into a computer running windows 98, the system will only see correctly the files that are written in the first 32 GB, the rest appear as somenthing very hard to decypher. In order to avoid this, two partitions (or more) of maximum 31 GB are required insead of one larger 32 GB partition.
February 27, 2005
Boot Viruses
Boot viruses can be easily removed from the hard-drive by booting from a clean disk and typing fdisk /mbr. What I didn’t knew is that it is also required (in some cases) that the command sys c: is typed. This is at least true for a windows 98 second edition installation infected by Preboot.A (alias WYZ or something like that). This is because fdisk /mbr only cleans the Master Boot Record, leaving the boot partiton’s sector intact (and infected), and for wich is required to launch sys c: to rebuild the system sector of the selected partition.
RDS Nameservers
These are the nameservers of RDS Internet Provider (in Timisoara at least):
193.231.233.1
193.231.233.8
February 22, 2005
Windows 98 Network Cards Conflict
Today I had to go to a place in order to configure a computer to have access to the internet. And the very (Microsoft type of) weird thing that kept on happening was that I got a message like “Your network card conflicts with another computer that has the IP address 192.168.0.39″. The weird thing is that whatever IP I configured the TCP/IP protocol to use, I got the same thing (with other address of course). I’ll never understand these things.