My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second...

Hi my question is that every time I restart or start my computer it requires my windows 98 CD to use as boot record to start windows without the cd in the drive my windows 98 doesnt startup it just stops at the logo screen. how do i change my boot record from my cdrom to my actual harddrive where...

Despite having 1GB of RAM with 70% free resources I get an error message stating I have insufficient free memory whenever I try to use Disk Defragmenter. I have tried closing down all applications and have also tried running in Safe Mode to defrag. but the same error message appears. The HDD I am...

I have a Win98SE PC, fitted with 2 hardrives (1 x Primary Master, 1 x Primary Slave) and a CD-Rom on Secondary Prinary. This config has been working fine, until suddenly the D: is not accesable in Windows. Device Manager shows a yellow "!" on the IDE Controller, and it only shows one hard drive,...

My windows 98 computer won't boot because it can not read drive C. Any advice on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -astroview120mm

Hi. I have a Western Digital WDC400 full of data, and after some hardware failures of my MoBo I could not access to it anymore (I've changed the MoBo) After trying every posible configuration (master, slave, alone , in another computer), bios does not detect it. Today I 've tried an old red hat...

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Hi Brad, It seems to me that just a couple of days ago someone wanted to try something similar. Unfortunately, I didn't pay it any mind. :( I would get busy contacting the various mobo mfgrs. and see if they have something to fit the bill. -- HTH, Curt

Can anyone tell me how or where I can get another windows 98 system cd? Mine is cracked in half. I can't run anything because I was in the middle of reinstallation and it cracked while spinning in the cd-rom. 6 year old disk, and I never made a back-up. What was I thinking. Now now one even has...

My customer is starting to upgrade their pc's to Windows Vista. In the past, under XP and using Excel, they provided a tab-delimited file as input to my inkjet system that uses Windows 98. No problem! Now under Vista, using Excel (2007) I can read the file, but it doesn't recognize it as...

Hi: To all respective forum readers, please take notice: 1) First of all, my apologies for such a wide off-topic cross- posting. It's unusual, and very frowned upon. But I deem it necessary in lieu of recent events. You can just disregard if you will. 2) There is a user on the net who has...

I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on ebay. I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made from a download from their site. All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it...

Hi Gary, What OS can you launch off a CD, that allows you to use a flash drive? Thanks in advance, Brad On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:57:40 -0800, in microsoft.public.win98.disks.general you wrote:

My scenario is as follows. Pentium III with Windows 98 that I want to use for backup storage. Secondary IDE has CD/DVD player as master and CD writer as slave. Primary IDE has 18 GB hard disk as master, which it boots from but is too small for storage. For an experiment, I stuck a 2 GB hard...

My CDR and CDRW used to work fine. Neither can be accessed now - all I get is a message saying " not accessible; device not ready". This has been a gradual process, certainly as far as the CDRW is concerned. Originally it would read and write. Then it stopped writing CDRW, then, from time to time,...

Hi, I have three computers that developed problems with reading floppy disks. Note: This problem occurred at a different time for each computer. What is the most common problem with floppy disk drives? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password,...

I am trying to help out a friend with a computer problem but what I am trying to achieve may not be possible - any advice would be appreciated. His computer runs Win XP Home but currently will not boot further than the 'Welcome' screen. We suspect a virus has cause the problem - someone else was...

Could you please tell me if it means buying a whole new CD or wether a can get a replacement.

I have a performance problem with my Win 98 system. It is a Dell with a P III / 550 MHz and 128 MB memory with 700 MB of free disk space. The symptom often seems to be certain web sites that hang for no reason. I believe I finally traced it to another problem today. On occasions after the...

I have a new Desktop with ASUS P5E Motherboard and a RAID 5 cluster with 4*500 GB disks . The RAID 5 is split into two volumes , one for the system and one for data. The system restarted, and showed that one of the disks have a problem. After restarteting it once, it showed at startup (before...