I'm experiencing some strange mouse glitches when running a few different games in MS-DOS. The issue occurs when the mouse and keyboard are used at the same time (the worst example is in Command & Conquer, selecting multiple units with the Shift key while moving the mouse and clicking with the left …

That's a good idea, derSammler. I just looked up a picture of those drives and I remember having a few of that newer style at one time. I suppose I could just create an 800 MB partition to match the mid-'90s vintage of the system I'm building. 😀

Working from memory here, in my earliest Pentium II system (early '98) I had a 4 MB RIVA 128 + 4 MB Voodoo combo which was upgraded to an 8 MB TNT by the end of that year. I remember being quite satisfied with the graphics capabilities for the games that were available at the time. A 12 MB Voodoo2 …

Aw, too bad. Thanks for the input and ideas, everyone. That makes sense about the sector reallocations hitting their limit with each new scan. I've read that old sectors can sometimes be coaxed back into working order if you can perform multiple read/write operations at the specific location on the …

Good thoughts, cyclone3d, but I've tried two different computers and different cabling. Different memory between the systems, too. (I coincidentally also ran MemTest86+ for several hours on the one system and it didn't find any memory errors.)

First-time poster here, but I've been lurking for a while! What might cause bad sectors on a hard drive to randomly appear and then subsequently move around? I understand what they are and why they occur, but I encountered a strange situation with two used drives that I recently purchased. Both …