Recent content by busterbrown

If all else fails, get a TP760 floppy on E*ay and use it. They are about $14.00 plus shipping. They go in the ultrabay, which is on the left side of the machine when you lift the keyboard.

Try Spinrite. It's at steve Gibson's site. (www.spinrite.com)

Have you tried running Spinrite on it? That will tell you what's going on and whether you really have bad sectors. You can get Spinrite at www.spinrite.com. That program's a standard that has been around in various versions since the 1980's

Try getting a junker TP on E*bay and rebuilding it. That's the closest thing I've found to home-built laptops

Buy a copy of Steve Gibson's Spinrite program at www.spinrite.com. It's about $40.00 and you can download it after paying for it. If the cluster marked bad is still good, the program will restore it. Spinrite has been the standard for working with HDD's since the 1980's. Scandisk is very...

Get the latest version of ZoneAlarm, then set the security for medium. It works for me with Sygate. I can see all the client machines and they can connect to the Internet.