Scott, I hope you have a backup of your important data. If not you should make one immediately. If all you have is access to dos, use floppies and pkzip. PKzip has a disk-spanning option should your zip file grow larger than a floppy. Test your zip archive, then you'll be ready for surgery.
You still haven't posted much information about the problem to the list. Apparently this is part of another conversation with specific individuals. >From what you have posted it sounds like file system corruption or bad hardware. You can do a farily good test of this by formatting your drive with verification. Make sure you have all of the data you need backed up and tested. Then you start the process of rebuilding the system from scratch. If it fails formatting with verification (ie bad block testing) then your harddrive (or controller or cable) has some problems. It is most commonly the harddrive itself. Installing on to this drive will just aggravate problems. If the format is successful then you start the OS(win/*nix) install. If it crashes or has problems during install then it is likely another hardware problem (not harddrive but something else probably). Due to windows 95's lack of stability, it is extremely unwise to continue to run it on a file system that scandisk had reported errors on several times and "fixed" several times. Back up your data or consider it lost. Copying to another harddrive if available is also a good choice instead of floppies. An of course since this is a unix mailing list, I will make some comments about it. There are linux based quicken clones available. Here are a few links I just found online: KDE's Kapital personal finance manager: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kapital/?topic_id=75 All sorts of business financial and accounting software can be found under this section on freshmeat.net: http://freshmeat.net/browse/75/?topic_id=75 Cory -----Original Message----- From: Scott MacWilliams [mailto:scmac@;efn.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]still dead Hey Mike, I've been through the drill four times, and it still isn't working. It gets to the scandisk program, runs that and asks to 'fix' a lot of files, then finally gets done and still won't go. I end up getting the same messages. I can't get down there tomorrow night, so I don't know when I'll be able to get this thing going again. It's getting to be a real problem as I use it for my financial tracking and planning via Quicken. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]still dead > Toss the CD. Your .cab files are on the hard drive. > Simply boot the computer, press F8 repeatedly until > you get the menu of start up options. Drop down to > "command prompt only", type "cd win95", "Enter" Now > from C:\win95 type "setup" and be on your merry way. > Have fun. > > Mr O > > > --- Scott MacWilliams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello LUGgers, > > Thanks again for all your help Thursday night. > > But... > > My computer is still not responding to CPR. I > > followed the steps > > to reboot and load from the Win95 CDROM, but it > > didn't take. > > I'll have to go back and get a more detailed > > description of what it > > said, but I haven't had a chance to get to it yet. > > THanks, > > Scott MacWilliams > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
