Loses data when PC shuts down

using this with firewire. I'm using Win 98, second edition.

Stop using Win98, it's a crappy operating system with poor history (on-the-knee
made-not-properly-designed-patch-over-the-paleolithic-MS-DOS).

Use some of the Windows NT OSes - Win2000 or WinXP.

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:44:59 +0300, "Maxim S. Shatskih"
wrote:

using this with firewire. I'm using Win 98, second edition.

Stop using Win98, it's a crappy operating system with poor history (on-the-knee
made-not-properly-designed-patch-over-the-paleolithic-MS-DOS).

Use some of the Windows NT OSes - Win2000 or WinXP.


This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL

kony writes:

This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL

Whoever it comes from, it's sound advice. The Windows 9x family of
operating systems is dramatically inferior to the Windows NT family of
operating systems. They are completely different (despite
similarities in appearance), and the latter family (NT, 200x, and XP)
is technically superior by a wide margin.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

kony writes:


This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL


Whoever it comes from, it's sound advice. The Windows 9x family of
operating systems is dramatically inferior to the Windows NT family of
operating systems. They are completely different (despite
similarities in appearance), and the latter family (NT, 200x, and XP)
is technically superior by a wide margin.


The 'advice' to use an NT based O.S. might be reasonable but the premise of
Windows98 being "crappy" with "poor history" is nonsense. It's history is
so 'poor' and 'crappy' that MS was forced to extend support for years after
the original EOF date, which will *finally* occur on July 11, 2006

Christine2006 wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

kony writes:


This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL

Whoever it comes from, it's sound advice. The Windows 9x family of
operating systems is dramatically inferior to the Windows NT family of
operating systems. They are completely different (despite
similarities in appearance), and the latter family (NT, 200x, and XP)
is technically superior by a wide margin.




That's irrelevant for me Mxsmanic. I am using Win 98-SE because I need
to. I have some software I must use and it won't work with 2000 or XP
or Server 2003.

So do I, plus some small old machines that are perfectly fine for light
tasks with Win98 but that would be taxed beyond practicality by Win2K or XP.


Christine



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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:27:36 +0100, Mxsmanic
wrote:

kony writes:

This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL

Whoever it comes from, it's sound advice. The Windows 9x family of
operating systems is dramatically inferior to the Windows NT family of
operating systems. They are completely different (despite
similarities in appearance), and the latter family (NT, 200x, and XP)
is technically superior by a wide margin.


Inferior, yes, but often this is made as some kind of
blanket statement which is pretty much pointless unless it
is addressing a specific limitation of the OS, a need of the
user. Simply claiming to move on from 9x without specific
reason is rather silly. Same goes for WinME (though my
least favorite Windows), 2K, or XP onto Vista.

There is no reason to believe someone using Win98
successfully without complain, has any reason to upgrade.

Now moving past the generic concept to a specific scenario,
in this particular case, supporting 48bit LBA would be
gained by a latter version of windows and therefore within
this context it makes sense- but that is not what was
mentioned, just a mindless "NT better" argument which is not
really true at all.

If a person boots and uses 9x, makes no use of the
differences between the OS(s), the theoretically better OS
isn't better in any realized way.

David Maynard wrote:
Christine2006 wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

kony writes:


This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL

Whoever it comes from, it's sound advice. The Windows 9x family of
operating systems is dramatically inferior to the Windows NT family of
operating systems. They are completely different (despite
similarities in appearance), and the latter family (NT, 200x, and XP)
is technically superior by a wide margin.




That's irrelevant for me Mxsmanic. I am using Win 98-SE because I need
to. I have some software I must use and it won't work with 2000 or XP
or Server 2003.

So do I, plus some small old machines that are perfectly fine for light
tasks with Win98 but that would be taxed beyond practicality by Win2K or XP.


That's right. Also, I have some older hardware that I want to use and
for some things, there are no new drivers for them.

Christine


Christine



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kony wrote:
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:27:36 +0100, Mxsmanic
wrote:

kony writes:

This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL

Whoever it comes from, it's sound advice. The Windows 9x family of
operating systems is dramatically inferior to the Windows NT family of
operating systems. They are completely different (despite
similarities in appearance), and the latter family (NT, 200x, and XP)
is technically superior by a wide margin.


Inferior, yes, but often this is made as some kind of
blanket statement which is pretty much pointless unless it
is addressing a specific limitation of the OS, a need of the
user. Simply claiming to move on from 9x without specific
reason is rather silly. Same goes for WinME (though my
least favorite Windows), 2K, or XP onto Vista.

There is no reason to believe someone using Win98
successfully without complain, has any reason to upgrade.

Now moving past the generic concept to a specific scenario,
in this particular case, supporting 48bit LBA would be
gained by a latter version of windows and therefore within
this context it makes sense- but that is not what was
mentioned, just a mindless "NT better" argument which is not
really true at all.

If a person boots and uses 9x, makes no use of the
differences between the OS(s), the theoretically better OS
isn't better in any realized way.

That's right. Also, suppose you want to test some network things at
home. You could use all Pentium 4s with XP, or Win2003-Server OSs. But,
it is cheaper to work with some older PCs for network testing purposes.

Christine

This coming from someone using OE for a newsreader... LOL

What is wrong with OE? I'm satisfied with it.

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StorageCraft Corporation

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That's irrelevant for me Mxsmanic. I am using Win 98-SE because I need
to. I have some software I must use and it won't work with 2000 or XP
or Server 2003.

Use MS Virtual PC and run Win98 and this software inside it.

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation

http://www.storagecraft.com